[tri-med] Re: [tri-family] tubes


i wasn't a big fan either, but i guess i was talked into it. see my other
children had ear infections until thy where 2 years old and thy didn't get
tubes for them.i just thought that it would help but I'm thing i was wrong.
he seemed to get better for a couple of weeks and then we where back to
square one again Gina, now he has to go back every 2 weeks to have them
cleaned out.
-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Schuler <karens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tri-family@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <tri-family@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tri-med <Tri-Med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, May 26, 2001 2:04 PM
Subject: [tri-med] Re: [tri-family] tubes


>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "gina L Anderson"
>> i was wondering if there is anyone else that got tubes in there
children's
>ears. Taylor got his at 8 months old and thy are still fill of fluid Gina
>son Taylor 11 months
>
>HI Gina,
>Sorry for the delay in answering.
>Alex had tubes put in his ears but I am one of the few parents who are not
a
>fan of them. Alex had lots of fluid in his ears, but no overt ear
>infections, so they put the tubes in hoping that it would help his hearing.
>They didn't seem to make any difference to his hearing unfortunately but
>they did result in him getting a lot of purulent ear infections with
massive
>amounts of discharge running dow his face. This had an adverse effect on
his
>hearing because he couldn't wear his hearing aids........ So finally I had
>the ENT remove the tubes. It was easier and better for his speech
>development to simply turn his hearing aids up than deal with the constant
>infections.
>
>Alex's ear infection the other week was the first overt ear infection that
>he has had since........
>
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>
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>Karen, Mum to Alex (6, T-18 mosaic)
>Sydney, Australia
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