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Friday, February 09, 2007

Ear Infections

Despite being exclusively breastfed, both my husband and I had terrible problems with ear infections as kids. In fact I lost 10% of my hearing from ear infections, most of which were "silent ear infections" meaning that I did not run a fever. Because of our history, my husband and I figured it would be pretty likely that our kids would also have problems with ear infections. Unfortunately, it looks like we were right.

It seems like every article I read when I was pregnant and when my older son (OS) was a baby, talked about a fever as one of the signs of an ear infection. They also talked about extreme fussiness and tugging on the infected ear. None of this has been true for either of our boys.

The first time OS had an ear infection, he did not have a fever. He simply wouldn't latch onto his bottle. I had remembered that it was possible for kids NOT to have a fever with an ear infection. Turns out he did have an ear infection. Out of all his many ear infections he unfortunately went on to have, he only ran a fever once. (He has had tubes for the past 18 months and only had one infection within that time.) The only way I was able to tell was that he wouldn't latch onto his bottle. Sometimes he fussed a little and sometimes he even pulled on his ear a couple times. That was really about it.

Yesterday my 7 month old younger son (YS) was having a hard time taking his bottle. He would latch on for a minute or two and then break free. Then he would latch on again only to break free a couple minutes later and so on. He also was crabbier than usual. I brought him in and it turns out he's ear was pretty infected. He has his first ear infection.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: It's possible for kids to have an ear infection without having a fever.

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 10:50 PM   3 comments
3 Comments:

  • At 2/10/2007 2:16 AM, Anonymous Suzanne said…

    Fie! I am sorry to hear that. I hpoe that OS feels better soon. Poor kid.

     

  • At 2/11/2007 12:38 PM, Blogger super des said…

    There is a correlation between severe ear infections and dyslexia, so now that you know your sons' signs, be very aware to catch them in time!

     

  • At 2/13/2007 10:24 AM, Blogger Nancy said…

    We've been lucky only to experience the ear infection drama once - but it was one time too many! My son was probably about eight months old and he was so miserable and I didn't know what it was right away, so there was a lot of crying (by both of us!)

    Good luck and I hope your little guy feels better soon.

     
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