How about an item in the Washing Compost about the infection of kid’s minds with liberalism, i.e., brainwashing?
Earache? Earache my eye.
Hope this is a joke. My kid’s ear infections were “cured” with an adenoidectomy
Nobody was smoking.
But the lunatics at the PDA were trying to outlaw them at the time.
Anybody who believes this caca deserves what they get.
Politically correct new age bullshit.
Could this have anything to do with the drive NOT to use antibiotics for headcolds? Maybe there’s more resistance?
hogwash. I do not believe that smoking has any corrolation with ear infection frequency in infants. My brother smokes and I do not, never have. My son has been exposed to very little, if any, second hand smoke. My son was breast fed, my brother’s son was not. Both our sons have had chronic ear infections in infancy. Both had to have tubes/adenoidectomy before age three (my son had to have them when he was less than 18 months old). My kiddo is 12, his was 2 last month.
I think I just gave an indication that ear inection frequency may have a root in genetics.
Oh yeah, I had chronic ear infections too. I had tubes and adenoids removed when I was three, and my brother had it done when he was 4.
Considering the local doctors had proclaimed our granddaughter free of any ear infection just a couple hours before her ear drums blew out (yep, an infection by golly!), what’s the chance this is because fewer doctors are capable of diagnosing one?
My uncles smoked like chimneys when I was a kid. It made my eyes water and annoyed me but I never had an ear ache.
It wasn’t until decades later listening to bogus studies and liberal media that my ears started to hurt. Liberalism causes earaches.
I nursed all my kids and the kid I nursed the least was the healthiest so go figure.....
Before blaming it on smoking..how about crediting the increased use of sippy cups.
Used to be parent left kids on the bottle for way too long.. Tykes lay on their back and suck. Short level eustacian tubes lead to pooling.
Have to be upright to use a sippy cup..
I think there is NO correlation between smoking and ear infections. I suspect that more young moms are staying home with their kids. Daycare is a cesspool of ear infections.
He was in a twice a week, morning pre-school, at the time, and it's more likely that the germ soup he was in brought them on. After he turned four, he didn't get any more, so I guess his resistance had built up sufficiently.
Anthropomorphic global Warming causes drop in ear
infections, george bush’s fault.
Couldn’t be H Flu Vaccine...
FWIW, my son has an ear infection right now. Last night he was in a lot of pain. He doesn’t complain much, just gets real ansty. Hardest thing in the world is to see my kids in pain, and not be able to take it away. He said he was feeling better this morning. Here’s to hoping that the antibiotics will kick in or the virus has run its course.
Smoke free house BTW, except for the occasional puff of wood smoke in the winter.
FWIW, I had TERRIBLE ear infections as a kid (not to the point of needing tubes put in), and I suspect that was at least in part, why I am "mostly deaf" these days.
IMO, my problems were almost absolutely due to swimming, as the infections always started with the "swimming season", and I was a regular "water rat".
Neither of my parents smoked. And another interesting tidbit....the ear infections stopped once I was entered puberty, though I was swimming just as much, if not more, so body chemistry must have had something to do with.
And I think "iatrogenics" probably played a role in my loss of hearing. I was regularly given an antibiotic called "aureomycin", which was supposedly more effective on ear infections than others. But a lot of years back, I recall scanning an article that said the aureomycin itself could cause hearing loss.