Going stir crazy at Christmas....thanks for your advice and prayers!
Oh, and our little angel says Merry Christmas!
Going stir crazy at Christmas....thanks for your advice and prayers!
Oh, and our little angel says Merry Christmas!
Congratulations on the baby!
Ask your pediatrician how soon the baby can get “tubes” put in the ears. Tubes work wonders for preventing ear infections and for helping them speak more clearly.
Powder..patch..ball FIRE!
Olive oil in the ear (warmed not hot) is the best for children with ear infections. Have used it many times on my 5 kids and grandkids. pour a little in the ear and put a small cotton ball to hold it in.
Twenty minutes later you will notice a difference.
Trust me. Works every time.
Try sleeping in the recliner semi-upright with him laying on your chest. Being in an upright position will help his ear a great deal. Laying down hurts their little ear the worst when they have an ear infection. My kids only had one ear infection each and both had them right at about 6 months of age.
and IF a pediatrician wants to put tubes in your kids ears after his first ear infection . . . find a new pediatrician.
Cute kid.
The ear infections are normal.
You’re going to have to rough it out till tomorrow.
An anti inflammatory should help, but I am no Dr.
Good luck.
Merry Christmas to you and Hoc!
Got any suggestions for DCBryan1?
I think the tylenol is the correct course for now.
Have the baby sleep in his car seat or swing so he is sitting up. He should stay asleep longer when he is not lying down flat. One parent can also try driving him around in the car while the other parent stays home and sleeps. Find a medical clinic that is open on Sundays. Some of the Walgreen/CVS type clinics are open on Sundays. Our younger child had recurrent ear infections as an infant/toddler. His ear pain usually disappeared within 24 hours of his first dose of the prescribed antibiotic. You have my sympathies. You will have better Christmases.
I just stumbled on this article two days ago while looking at other garlic home remedies. Don’t know if it’s any good or not as I haven’t tested myself yet.
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/garlic-infections.shtml
Green/yellow fluid in the ear canal?
It is time to take him to a 24 hour urgent care.
Parenting is preparation for sainthood.
Godspeed.
am I reading this right?
I don’t like greenish yellow drainage from any semiclosed wound or orifice along with the descriptions of extreme crying and symptoms of pain. The drop of fever can simply be the tylenol masking an underlying process and certain types of infections as in gram negative types exhibit temps that are subnormal than usual.
You’ve already had the kid on meds for 10 days(from “before the previous weekend”), now you have purilent drainage. Get the kid in NOW to see the doctor! The child is 4 months old. Olive oil???? That nurse(not a doctor) was telling you to stick something into a child’s ear that had active drainage?!!! Go today to have your child seen....! The drainage needs to be cultured to find a more suitable antibiotic.
(I’m not just playing medicine, I’ve been an RN for 25 years and an ICU nurse for the past 11 years)
It's bad if pus is coming out of the ear and a visit to the ER isn't out of the question. I see it all the time.
Alcohol........for the parents.
Tylenol for the baby. Recurring ear infections will need tubes. All three of mine had them. Saved countless trips to the doctor everytime they had a cold. Fluid from every cold/fever in head ends up in ear canal. Tube lets fluid drain out instead of pressure on ear saving little ones from ear pain and parents sleepless nights
P.S. Oil in the ear only helps the symptoms, it doesn't get rid of an infection. I'm not endorsing this, but the old-timers (ahem, like my Mom...for me) would sometimes put a drop of peroxide in the ear, then a drop of warm Oil of Camphor in with a cotton ball. The warm menthol is soothing.
Good luck with that angel, and Happy New Year!
Yes, warm olive oil in the ear with a chunk of cotton ball big enough to make sure you can pull out completely, is truly a good remedy for ear pain and it s perfectly safe.
Here s another one that may help your baby. Heat a big russet potato in the microwave for 10-15 mins. Put it into a clean thick sock. Hold this to his ear area. This feels terrific and stays warm a nice long time. Plus you can eat it after if you like.
Someone mentioned tubes in the ears. This would be for a much older child who is plagued with multiple ear infections. Not for a newborn.
Remember to add probiotics to your child because antibiotics have ruined his immune-fighting good bacteria in his digestive tract. Two easy ways: if breastfeeding, have mom take probiotic capsules, and there are also baby probiotic drops.
Hope he feels better soon. Maysbe take him to doc tomorrow.
Since my kids were 4 and 5 before they got an ear infection, I will not offer advice.
However, I'm pinging our resident experienced mom to see what she may recommend.
I'm so sorry your first Christmas with your little angel has turned out to be not so merry. Better ones lie ahead!
not sure what the color of the nurse has to do with it...
just sayin’
prayers for the little one. Merry Christmas!
Yes, the olive oil can really work. My only child was the prince of ear infections, I must say. He was a preemie and that ear tube was too undeveloped, blah, blah, blah.
One thing others have not mentioned that seemed to help my son: go out tomorrow and pick up an ol’ fashioned hot water bottle. Now, for a wee one, you’ll tone it down a bit (not as warm as for us adults) but....if you put warmish water in it (and don’t fill it up, of course) and can get the little whippersnapper to rest on the offending side. Put it in something, like a pillowcase. If it’s too warm for your wrist, it’s too warm for their ear.
What is causing your little one to scream is not only the infection but the pressure inside the ear (fluids and other crap). Warmth will liquefy them (hence the warm olive oil suggestion) and may alleviate the pressure. My son’s old school pediatrician told me this and it was a lifesaver. The good doctor died in August of ‘08, but my son has managed to the ripe old age of 25. When I last talked to him, 12 hours ago, he was tackling a 6” high stack of Christmas cookies. LOL Btw, if you are prone to sinus infections this time of year, this hot water bottle thing will help you, too, but you can use hotter water.
One more thing...your mom was right. It’s a good idea to have a steam vaporizer and put Vicks in the cup in the baby’s room when ill. Just like she did with you. :)