To ask experience of perforated ear drum in kids

[Tinkerbec]

Just that really. Been to doctors. Dd on antibiotics.

Daughter is due to fly at tge weekend , doctor said flying is fine and swimming ok if wears an ear bandit or plugs snd is careful.

Any experience of this. How long is it painful?

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Very! And annoying!!

Happened to me so not a child but lasted a good two weeks.

You feel a bit deaf and I ended up shouting and saying 'sorry am i being too loud?'

If the ear infection has cleared up, she should be feeling much better now it's popped. It might be a good idea to use a decongestant nasal spray prior to take off and landing just in case.

I'd be careful with the swimming to be honest. If she does go swimming. Make sure her ears are wrapped up/covered to the nines.

My eardrum perforated when I was 9. The GP kept telling my mum there was nothing there and just to put olive oil in it. It was a really bad infection which resulted in me having to have an operation to clear everything out as two of my hearing bones had disintegrated under the pressure/infection! I've been mostly deaf in that ear since.

DD has an ongoing condition called bilateral otitis ecterna (swimmers ear in both ears basically). We've had to stop her swimming lessons which she absolutely loved this was on her consultants advice. She has to go to the hospital regularly to have her ears professionally syringed and cleaned as she also has eczema flareups inside her ear canals.

If you can absolutely guarantee you can keep her ears dry OP. Then by all means let her. As long as the infection is cleared up I see no reason why it shouldn't be okay. Google swim moulds. They're a bit pricey and I don't know where you are. But here there's a centre which moulds ear plugs to your ears so you can still swim and there's no chance of all at getting water in with these. (not an option for DD at the minute as her ears are too bad to take an accurate mould). Make sure you get the ear bandit thing though to keep the normal earplugs in if you choose to use them instead. The amount of earplugs DD must have lost in her lessons!

Be v careful not just with swimming but hair washing as any water in ear could start another infection. My dd lived with hers for several years before repeat infections got too much and she had it operated on. Was a really quick day op and a complete success.

Main thing is if u even suspect an infection get straight to gp.

I agree with all of this. We were told that flying was no issue after an eardrum burst and have had no issues with it. We were told to leave swimming for 4 weeks each time and to put cotton wool with Vaseline into the ear when washing hair.

Thanks all

Thats is what happened to us. I have taken her to urgent care three times and all they said was that it was just dry put olive oil and in. Until yesterday when the blod started coming out and we got into the GPs.

She said she feels much better today. So
that's something after four days of being so feverish.