Ear infection will this ever end????

[hedgepig]

DS2 is 15 months old for the last 8 weeks he has had an ear discharge which we are told is an infection in the middle ear causing a perforation to the ear drum and then the goo comes out of his ear.

We have been to the GP and the ENT clinic who have prescribed antibiotics, it clears up and then about 2 days after the ABs finish the goo starts to come back out of his ear. I think what is happening is the ABs are suppressing the infection but not killing it and as soon as they finish it builds up and re-perforates his ear drum.

I have been to see the GP this morning who is re-referring him back to the hospital (he was discharge last week as his ear had healed up!!).

We are obviously worried about his hearing, he is OK-ish in himself but not really perky (IYSWIM). When we go back to the hospital I'm not sure what the options are for such a young child, I heard of grommets and adenoid removal but it seems to be in older children.

If anyone's DCs have had similar issues I would really like to hear how they were resolved, thanks

Ds had similar ear infection - kept going back to Drs as low-level, no fever or illness, just slight gunge all the time. Ended up managing to get referred to a consultant - we got antibiotic ear drops which seem to really do the trick.

thank, he has had 2 lots of ear drops but they didn't seem to work either.
Did you Ds sleep OK? Mine is not sleeping well at all whihc makes me think he must be getting some pain from his ear.

He needs to have the gunk cultured to see what bacteria is causing hte infection, so they know which antibiotics would be best to treat it.

Were they antibiotic ear drops though?

2 different sorts of antibiotic ear drops and also the cultures said it should be penicillin sensitive (which is what he has had orally). Thanks for the suggestions though, at least it seem the Drs are covering the obvious options. We are now waiting for another ENT appointment (hopefully next week)

Hello hedgepig, I am currently going through the same thing with 22month old ds. Three courses of antibiotics and and one course of eardrops in 6 weeks and theres still gloop coming out of his ear. Did you get another ENT appointment? What did they say? Its very stressful when they're still so young.