Hello! Hoping someone with more experience in ear infections can help.
Baby boy came down with a nasty cold on the 24th of February. He’s also been teething his first top molars, but been surprisingly OK with them now that they’ve broken through.
Around 3 weeks ago, I noticed some clearish/orange liquid coming out from his ear. It went in for a few days, so I took him to the GP. They took a swab, it came back as haemophilus influenzae. Since then, we’ve been given two lots of drops (Ciloxan and chloramphenicol) and we are now about to finish a course of erythromycin. He’s been seen and assessed by two doctors that said that he had an ear infection but couldn’t see because there was fluid still in the ear.
It’s important to say that through these weeks he hasn’t had any temperature or being grouchy or pulling at his ears at all. He’s been happy as can be - and this is the king of temps we are talking about. Zero other symptoms, just the discharge. Also, it’s been in both ears.
He’s got two days left of erythromycin. His ears have stopped discharging as much, now just one tends to do it once in the evening. I would have expected for it to all have stopped now, but maybe I’m wrong.
Anyone had an experience like this? I really don’t want to continue to throw ABs at it. He doesn’t seem in any discomfort at all. Is this expected behaviour for an ear to continue to discharge for a bit after an infection? I’m literally clueless.
If he does finish his AB and then start to show signs of distress, of course, we shall get a referral to a private ENT. I’m just not sure what’s normal or not.