Ear Confession
Tonight Harrison asked me, "Does Gigi still have a ear confession?"
"Yes, sweetie, she does," I replied.
The poor girl has had an ear infection for who knows how long. After a month of a drippy nose and emerging teeth, she started banging her head on the floor. I took her in, and as always happens when I take her in suspecting an ear infection, she had a raging one.
Luckily a new study from Denmark (or Sweden or the Netherlands, I don't remember which) showed that children with ear infections who aren't treated are no more likely to suffer ear complications than children who are treated with antibiotics. This was a relief to me, since I was concerned that I'd waited so long to take her in that she might have gone a little deaf. My pediatrician reassured me that this didn't happen. (This is the second time I've had to be reassured that I didn't cause deafness in my child; the first time was at an OB appointment when I was sure I'd damaged Gigi's tiny ears by taking her to a Depeche Mode concert when I was five months pregnant.)
So it's day two of amoxicillin and she's doing much better. Harrison had a similar recurrence of ear infections and outgrew them by the time he was 18 months old. She'll be 18 months in July. Summer is looking better every day in every way.
"Yes, sweetie, she does," I replied.
The poor girl has had an ear infection for who knows how long. After a month of a drippy nose and emerging teeth, she started banging her head on the floor. I took her in, and as always happens when I take her in suspecting an ear infection, she had a raging one.
Luckily a new study from Denmark (or Sweden or the Netherlands, I don't remember which) showed that children with ear infections who aren't treated are no more likely to suffer ear complications than children who are treated with antibiotics. This was a relief to me, since I was concerned that I'd waited so long to take her in that she might have gone a little deaf. My pediatrician reassured me that this didn't happen. (This is the second time I've had to be reassured that I didn't cause deafness in my child; the first time was at an OB appointment when I was sure I'd damaged Gigi's tiny ears by taking her to a Depeche Mode concert when I was five months pregnant.)
So it's day two of amoxicillin and she's doing much better. Harrison had a similar recurrence of ear infections and outgrew them by the time he was 18 months old. She'll be 18 months in July. Summer is looking better every day in every way.
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