What Doctors Don't Tell You* It should only be in cases of prolonged hearing loss, affecting speech development. Some studies advocate a three-month waiting period, though one suggests that a delay of even six months
* Monitor the ears for signs of acute infection. As well as effusion, the sufferer will have fever, pain, irritability and poor appetite, among others. The ear will be very red and hot, with a bulging eardrum;
Early use of antibiotics provides only modest benefit for acute otitis media, concludes a major meta analysis. ...
Two new examples of medical overkill have been announced to tackle that major problem of childhood: otitis media, or middle ear infections. ...
A Finnish hospital has come up with a new approach to the prevention of acute otitis media in children between one and three years the flu vaccine! The study showed that incidence of acute otitis ...
Middle ear ache (otitis media) is one of medicine's most common and overtreated conditions. But the medical literature shows that, except when symptoms such as pain, discharge and the like are s ...
Q-Our family has been living in Spain since November 2000. Both our daughters are unvaccinated (Ella, two, was breastfed and Allegra, one, is still breastfeeding) and, until now, had not received ...
Otitis media (OM) - inflammation of the middle ear - is a common childhood affliction the world over. Every year, there are about 1.5 million cases in the UK, and 2.2 million cases in the US.
Next, we have another mother with a health query concerning her three year old. This time, the child has glue ear, to the extent that it is causing hearing loss. How can she avoid the conventional treatment with grommets? What are the alternative...
A surprising one in seven people have a hearing loss - that’s about 8.7 million in the UK alone. Age-related hearing loss usually begins at 50 and, according to the Royal National Institute for Deaf People,
