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[desflood]

and the husband just took the younger boy in for what seems like his 843rd ear infection. Anybody else deal with chronic ear infections, with their kids or themselves? I'd like to sleep sometime before I die in 60 years.

[Brutalis]

I've had 9 of them in my 23 years. I cannot swim or dunk my head under water or I could lose my right ear drum.

Make sure you guys do not keep putting tubes in the kids ear his whole life, it'll fuck him up. And see a ears-eye-nose-throat specialist ASAP.

[Slydragon]

My daughter had her left eardrum rupture twice this year and has had many ear-aces. Yesterday they just put tubes in for the first time, So I hope that helps. We took her to ears eye nose throat specialist for her tonsils which were removed in January and now her ears. I hope that's it and she does well.

She also has really bad eczema and the summer is brutal on her skin, I found this pic online

http://eczema.skyeherbals.com/images_and_css/eczema_on_hand.jpg

She has it like that but all over her arms and legs, really bad behind her legs and arms. She wakes up about every night crying because she has scratch herself into a bloody mess. I even put socks on her hands while she sleeps but it does not help too much. Lotion Lotion and her prescribe anti itching med is what we do ever few hours, and it has little effect. I stay up allot because I play my games or surf the net so when she starts scratching I can stop her. It's 4:02am now and I am up because she was bleeding about a hour ago.

Sorry didn't mean to Hijack the thread, just up and board. Hope your son turns out just fine.

[desflood]

It's cool. Turns out for the first time ever it's NOT an inner ear infection - just swimmer's ear.

SD, they can prescribe steriod creams for eczema. My oldest had a bad case when he was a baby (we lived in the desert - the air was always dry) and the stuff worked wonders for him. Give that a shot.

[Slydragon]

I have done the steroid creams before, actually done them allot over the past 3 years and her Dr. does not want to give her no more because he says too much is bad.

I put cetaphil cream on her allot and I am trying to get her into the habit of just doing it on her own, But at 6 doing that is last thing on her mind but when I can get it on her as much as I can she does better. Stuff cost allot also about 11 bucks for something she goes threw in a few days.

[TDMVPDPOY]

I have done the steroid creams before, actually done them allot over the past 3 years and her Dr. does not want to give her no more because he says too much is bad.

I put cetaphil cream on her allot and I am trying to get her into the habit of just doing it on her own, But at 6 doing that is last thing on her mind but when I can get it on her as much as I can she does better. Stuff cost allot also about 11 bucks for something she goes threw in a few days.

im a survivor of eczma for 12yrs now...

try silkron cream, its from south korea...it will do you wonders as i have already suggested a few on here using it....best thing about this cream, after its applied, doesnt make the skin oily...and you will see a huge difference in the outcome compared to other creams....

[to21]

Ear infections have been really bad with my two youngest. The baby just turned three and she's had six. We have learned to watch for her symptoms.

I feel like shit when I take her in to see someone and I usually get one right when they are having one.

[mrsmaalox]

My youngest had his first ear infection at 2 weeks old! It was an absolute nightmare for his first 2 years. Then when he was 2 he had a whopper, that morphed into strep throat (it always did), the "doctor" we saw wouldn't give him antibiotics because the new thing was to let them "fight it off and be over it in a couple of days". Of course he developed a huge
retro-pharyngeal abcess, that almost killed him, luckily I had been camped out at that stupid pediatric clinic for that entire week and saw every doc until I found one that did everything I told him to. Then after a harrowing ambulance transfer (lights, siren) to the Medical College of Georgia Children's Hospital, an emergency life or death 2hr surgery, 3 days in ICU, he recovered and has not had an ear infection since. He's 10 now! While they fixed his abcess, they took out his tonsils and put in the ear tubes. Worked out okay.

[Dex]

http://www.apollomediablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/ralphnose.jpg

"The doctor said I wouldn't get so many nosebleeds if I just kept my finger outta there"

[Dex]

Seriously though, I had ear aches all the time as a kid because I was always swimming, and it sucked! If they spend a lot of time at the pool/beach/lake, I definitely recommend some Swimmers Ear.

I hope your kid feels better.

[Slydragon]

im a survivor of eczma for 12yrs now...

try silkron cream, its from south korea...it will do you wonders as i have already suggested a few on here using it....best thing about this cream, after its applied, doesnt make the skin oily...and you will see a huge difference in the outcome compared to other creams....

Where can I find silkron cream? I google it and this thread came right back up.

[TDMVPDPOY]

i had the link to one of the sites that sells it, i deleted alot of pm in my box...

but its in vietnamese....