DD1 is 7. She started having hearing problems at 3 & had grommits inserted at 5.
The whole time the grommits were in we had problems. Every cold or flu she got her ears would leak, alot. We had to take her earrings out because it was getting in the piercing & infecting it.
Since the grommits have fallen out/closed - I'm not 100% sure they are gone, but has nearly been 2 years - she's been getting bad earaches again.
She's also having hearing problems again. I thought by now she should've grown enough that the fluid should be draining properly & not blocking her ears, but it is.
So, more hearing tests in store, more trips to doctors...What will they do? Would they re insert the grommits?
We talked about it today, & about her surgery last time & she'd be ok with it, but I really thought the problem should be gone by now?
I hope you guys get through it ok.
The surgery & grommits were fine for us, nothing really, its the keeping them dry for 12 or so months afterwards thats a bit harder.
Hi Skye,bummer your girl has to go through this
I had ear problems a a child, infections constantly, ruptured ear drums, grommets(we lost count at 18 odd grommet ops)
I did grow out of it, eventually, but not until I was 11 or so and funnily enough, it was right around the time that mum gave up being a complete nazi about me getting them wet. (prior to this it had been earplugs and swimming caps all my life when school swimming lessons were on)
I think I then spent a summer at dads swimming in the ocean and I believe that the salt water dried them right out and got rid of all the nasty bacteria.
Sorry for the rambling, and its prob not what you want to hear, but she prob will grow out of it, it may just take a little longer.
HTH
I have read they are ok to get wet, as long as the water is clean & not soapy. But for the first few months, the odd occasion she did get water in them she'd get an instant earache.
Isn't she too old now?
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