2. Sweet oil (not sweet water) is and has been a good remedy if there is not a bad infection. You can even buy a small bottle of it with a dropper in the pharmacy. It is a form of olive oil, but it is more sterile than using oil from a bottle that has been sitting around the house. But, in a pinch, olive oil is good too. Any oil that is warmed will ease the pain, but not the cause...use when there is no discharge.
And, place a wad of cotton in the ear after you put the oil in. Only a few drops of oil are needed. It is the cold air/breeze that makes the ear hurt again once the oil has cooled. Make sure the cotton will not go down into the ear canal, make it large enough, and place in the ear to keep it warm.
3. Do not have tubes put in unless this continues many, many times. Even then most times children outgrow these ear-aches. I had tubes put in my daughter at about age 5. It caused scarring that, as an adult, affected her hearing. So do not consider tubes unless you have two doctors agreeing that is the only thing you can do. And, after many problems. Do not rush into this method.
4. As others have said...hold your child on your chest and let him sleep there, upright. Put his head with the "bad" ear down, keeping it warm and where the draft will not reach it.
So, bottom line...after the ER...is sweet oil from the pharmacy, cotton in the ear, sleeping upright, no tubes (unless much older and really necessary).
Good luck. You and your child will get through this. God Bless.
No ER...Doc gonna stop by and sample our homebrew after his 2nd XMAS this afternoon. He doesn't want child in ER if no fever, no incoherent, nonstop, inconsolable screaming (which hasn't lasted over a few mins).
Doc said that he would rather come to the house than ER visit due to all the other nasty stuff in ER.
He said that the antibiotic he is on is great, multi-spectrum, and most powerful short of IV/IO.
He had said to hold off on introducing foreign liquids until he sees the ear himself.
I guess wife and I will make him a plate of leftovers ;).....little angel been sleeping a couple of hours now....might be time for us to take a nap.
No ER...Doc gonna stop by and sample our homebrew after his 2nd XMAS this afternoon. He doesn't want child in ER if no fever, no incoherent, nonstop, inconsolable screaming (which hasn't lasted over a few mins).
Doc said that he would rather come to the house than ER visit due to all the other nasty stuff in ER.
He said that the antibiotic he is on is great, multi-spectrum, and most powerful short of IV/IO.
He had said to hold off on introducing foreign liquids until he sees the ear himself.
I guess wife and I will make him a plate of leftovers ;).....little angel been sleeping a couple of hours now....might be time for us to take a nap.