Stop the Madness
Nicholas was healthy as a horse his entire first year. Now we're making up for it.
Starting back in December, Nicholas had a pretty good virus and ear infections in both ears. To my knowledge, neither my brother or I had ear problems when we were little, but alas, my offspring is smitten with the infamous bad ears plague. I guess they just don't make eardrums like they used to. Several 'risk factors' can contribute to fluid in the ears and infections: smoking in the house. Nope. Drinking bottles lying down. Nope. So it's all the more frustrating that this fluid just won't go away. From what we understand, the presence of fluid alone doesn't automatically mean infection, but there shouldn't be fluid there to begin with. We were hoping that with Nicholas walking more and stuff, warmer weather, etc. that perhaps it would go away. No such luck.
Adding fuel to the fire is that on at least 2 occasions, Nicholas has been in the middle of a 10-day round of antibiotics for his ears when it got interrupted with a stomach virus. One of the first things you have to do is take him off of the antibiotic (it can exacerbate the diarrhea, loss of fluids, etc). Dr. Scott didn't really wanna just immediately go for the tubes, but wanted to make sure that other methods were attempted. For the most part, we were OK with that, but at the end of the day, we just want our son to be healthy and pain-free.
Leah took Nicholas to the doctor on Monday. Yep, two mild ear infections. So we're now on another antibiotic. Leah said, "I'm not trying to tell somebody how to do their job, but could we please get a referral list of Ear, Nose, and Throat docs?. . .We've been battling this since December" The pediatrician seemed a bit surprised that we had not already been given this info (our doc is on vacation), so we now have it in hand. They requested that we come back after this 10-day round is complete, and hopefully we'll have some progress one way or another.
Starting back in December, Nicholas had a pretty good virus and ear infections in both ears. To my knowledge, neither my brother or I had ear problems when we were little, but alas, my offspring is smitten with the infamous bad ears plague. I guess they just don't make eardrums like they used to. Several 'risk factors' can contribute to fluid in the ears and infections: smoking in the house. Nope. Drinking bottles lying down. Nope. So it's all the more frustrating that this fluid just won't go away. From what we understand, the presence of fluid alone doesn't automatically mean infection, but there shouldn't be fluid there to begin with. We were hoping that with Nicholas walking more and stuff, warmer weather, etc. that perhaps it would go away. No such luck.
Adding fuel to the fire is that on at least 2 occasions, Nicholas has been in the middle of a 10-day round of antibiotics for his ears when it got interrupted with a stomach virus. One of the first things you have to do is take him off of the antibiotic (it can exacerbate the diarrhea, loss of fluids, etc). Dr. Scott didn't really wanna just immediately go for the tubes, but wanted to make sure that other methods were attempted. For the most part, we were OK with that, but at the end of the day, we just want our son to be healthy and pain-free.
Leah took Nicholas to the doctor on Monday. Yep, two mild ear infections. So we're now on another antibiotic. Leah said, "I'm not trying to tell somebody how to do their job, but could we please get a referral list of Ear, Nose, and Throat docs?. . .We've been battling this since December" The pediatrician seemed a bit surprised that we had not already been given this info (our doc is on vacation), so we now have it in hand. They requested that we come back after this 10-day round is complete, and hopefully we'll have some progress one way or another.
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