DD's hearing seems to have gone downhill over the last few days

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She was primarily diagnosed with Glue ear on her first visit to an ENT consultant 7 weeks ago. We were given steroids to spray up her nose to try and alleviate the fluid build up. After a couple of weeks the steroids were giving her regular nosebleeds so we stopped giving it.

Over the weekend she has suddenly been barely able to hear us, we have to speak to her face to face, and raise our voices. She is definitely mis-hearing what is being said too.

I looked in her ears and they are really full of wax which cant be helping (the consultant had already noted an increase in ear wax when he originally saw her.

However, it doesnt make sense for it to suddenly cause a real dip in her hearing.

Any ideas or advice?

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Having a cold would make a big difference. Please take her back to the doctor as not being able to hear must be awful for her, there must be something which can be done to help.

Get her to a doctor as soon as you can.

Did you just stop the steroids or did you tell them they were causing nosebleeds and let them suggest something else ?

Get some Karvol and put it on her pillow, if she is congested this will be playing a huge part in it.

Also try her on a liquid decongestant.

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dd had this and the wax build up (on top of the glue ear) was making her hearing really bad

consultant said there was no point doing a hearing test till the wax had gone - he took a sort of sucking machine and sucked out some really HARD lumps of wax that had been wedged in. IF your dd has got some of these (and you can't see them with the naked eye), then it's possible that these plus the glue ear are buggering her hearing.

GP can give you drops that soften the wax (and sometimes this will make the wax come out) however, consultant told us that if the wax is packed in, these probably won't work and you'll need the sucking hoover thing (done by the ENT).

In your shoes, I'd call the consultant and ask for another appointment.

also, you need to tell the consultant about the steroid effect (if you haven't done so already)

Have booked an appointment for her for Wednesday morning.

You dont seriously think I was going to wait for advice on here before doing anything, do you???

Just want some reassurance and home-fixes if there are any. Poor thing seems to suffer with one thing or another all the time. She seems oblivious to her hearing thing, tbh, but, we dont think her hearing was great to start with - hence visiting the ENT in the first place. The wax i COULD see looked really dark and crusty (i was looking to see if she had perhaps shoved something down there). One ear I couldnt see down for wax, the other there was a tiny hole through the middle. (Yes, I shone a torch in there....)

She's not bunged up, she hasnt got a cold. Her asthma has been worse the last few days, despite the 3 different inhalers she is on.

We didnt take advice on stopping the steroid - dp just decided to and then told me a few days later (he was doing it along with her other medicines as she was being put to bed). But, she is on antibiotics atm anyway for her finger, so, any infection etc should be cleared up by that anyway, surely?

I think I may ring and see if the consultants appointment can be brought forward though.... We are back there again on friday anyway.

Can you drip warm olive oil in her ears to soften the wax? Poor lamb, she's having a rough time atm Cuddle her for me x x x

Im not sure about that, after the sesame oil incident

Obviously you would need to learn to read first...

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Poor thing!

An ENT surgeon once told me that the best thing for earwax is warm soapy water. Apparently it's better than olive oil and the various drops you can buy, but the drug companies don't want you to know this!

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Can you get her to lie back in the bath and wallow for a bit with her ears underwater?

Have been doing this for years now and have never had a problem with wax since.