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Constant ear infections?
Hello mummies!
Theo has been such a poorly baby recently. He was diagnosed with a chest and double ear infection 2 weeks ago so was given a 5 day course of antibiotic. It cleared his chest up, but he still seemed bothered by his ears so I took him to a dr on monday who was absolutley useless, he said Theo was in pain but didnt want to give more antibiotics! So finaly managed to get an appointment with my gp yesterday who looked in his ears and said yes he still has a very nasty infection in both ears but the left one looked really bad so he's now on another course of antibiotics. They dont seem to affect him too much, he actually slept through last night but today he's STILL pulling on his hears, is off food and is generally unhappy. Does that mean the new ones arent working? Also, this is his 3rd ear infection in 7 months, isnt that quite alot? Does it need looking into further?
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Theo has been such a poorly baby recently. He was diagnosed with a chest and double ear infection 2 weeks ago so was given a 5 day course of antibiotic. It cleared his chest up, but he still seemed bothered by his ears so I took him to a dr on monday who was absolutley useless, he said Theo was in pain but didnt want to give more antibiotics! So finaly managed to get an appointment with my gp yesterday who looked in his ears and said yes he still has a very nasty infection in both ears but the left one looked really bad so he's now on another course of antibiotics. They dont seem to affect him too much, he actually slept through last night but today he's STILL pulling on his hears, is off food and is generally unhappy. Does that mean the new ones arent working? Also, this is his 3rd ear infection in 7 months, isnt that quite alot? Does it need looking into further?
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My lo used to get ear infection after ear infection and by the time she was 6 months she had had 5 ear infections and 4 lots of antibiotics. Give the new lot of antibiotics a chance to work, they can take up 6-8 doses (2- 2.5days) to kick in.
I had a doctor that once refused to give Freya antibiotics with no explaination and by the evening she was worse and started spiking temps. I took her to on call doc and she explained that with babies antibiotics do all the work to clear an infection, therefore there bodies never learn to fight it themselves. With adults antibiotics work with our bodies. That could possibly be the reason your origional doc refused a second dose. The on call doc gave me a prescription but I took her advice and rode through it. It wasn't very nice watching her be in pain but I gave her regular calpol and Neurophen and after 3-4 days she was 100% better and hasn't had an infection since.
Hope your lo gets better soon. And her sleeping lots just means her body is resting to fight the infection.
Kerry, Freya and Pink Bump
36+4
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My lo used to get ear infection after ear infection and by the time she was 6 months she had had 5 ear infections and 4 lots of antibiotics. Give the new lot of antibiotics a chance to work, they can take up 6-8 doses (2- 2.5days) to kick in.
I had a doctor that once refused to give Freya antibiotics with no explaination and by the evening she was worse and started spiking temps. I took her to on call doc and she explained that with babies antibiotics do all the work to clear an infection, therefore there bodies never learn to fight it themselves. With adults antibiotics work with our bodies. That could possibly be the reason your origional doc refused a second dose. The on call doc gave me a prescription but I took her advice and rode through it. It wasn't very nice watching her be in pain but I gave her regular calpol and Neurophen and after 3-4 days she was 100% better and hasn't had an infection since.
Hope your lo gets better soon. And her sleeping lots just means her body is resting to fight the infection.
Kerry, Freya and Pink Bump
36+4
X X X
I dont know if any of this is any good to you but thought id mention it just in case it comes in useful.
Hope Theo feels better soon xx
just wanted to say that I hope he's feeling much better soon.
I've also heard that no-one should clean thier ears with cotton buds because the wax is there for a reason, appparently you shouldn't put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear!
It is horrible to see them ill, we gave my lo calpol every 4 hours, and raised the head of his mattress - laying flat on their backs creates pressure in the ear and causes the pain to be worse x
hope your lo is a bit better now yummy mummy.
xx