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Perforated ear drum not healed

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MiloCat · 28/04/2015 19:27

Dd (2.5) had an ear infection and a perforated ear drum 4 weeks ago. She was given antibiotics and it cleared up quickly.

She has never picked up 100% and occasionally complained that her ear hurt. I took her back it the drs today and when they looked in her ear, said it hadn't healed and was quite a bad tear. She's referred us to ENT.

I'm hoping that by the time she's seen, it will have healed. Is that likely or given it's been 4 weeks now, will it not heal by itself? What will they do?

Thanks.

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AlmaMartyr · 28/04/2015 19:38

There are operations to fix perforated eardrums (myringoplasty?) although I think they're not normally done until grown up - I had mine at 15.

That said, hopefully it will just heal on its own but I have no idea how likely that is, sorry.

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MiloCat · 28/04/2015 21:39

Thank you.

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AlmaMartyr · 28/04/2015 22:26

No worries, hopefully someone a bit better informed will be along soon. ENT will probably do a hearing test to see how she's doing too. Good luck, you must be quite worried.

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MiloCat · 11/05/2015 08:05

Bump :).

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AlmaMartyr · 13/05/2015 20:45

How's she getting on Milo?

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MiloCat · 13/05/2015 21:03

She's not complained that it's hurting for a few days but she's still grumpy as hell :(. We have the ENT appointment but it's not until the end of June! Just hoping it's healed by then.

Thanks for asking :).

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switchitoff · 13/05/2015 21:49

Perforated ear-drums can take longer than 4 weeks to heal up by themselves, so chances are your DD will be absolutely fine by the time the ENT appointment comes round. They will want to check that her hearing is OK, because obviously children at that age are learning new words all the time, so it's important for her speech development that her hearing is as good as possible.

DS has had 15-20 perforated ear-drums. The ones when he was little always healed up by themselves eventually. The two he had when older (aged 14+) didn't heal up by themselves and he had two myringoplasty operations. This involves building a new ear-drum from a skin graft. Amazing what they can do! His hearing is absolutely fine now.

SnottySundays · 14/05/2015 18:23

4 weeks is a very short time for it to heal, plenty of time yet for it to heal spontaneously.

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MiloCat · 14/05/2015 19:24

That's really good to hear, thank you :).

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