Do you need antibiotics for an ear infection?

shanie5

Mon, Nov 09 2015, 5:48 pm

amother wrote:

Antibiotics don't necessarily help this. My son had very frequent, painful ear infections we treated multiple times with antibiotics. He had severe hearing loss in both ears, retracted ear drums. Even after putting in tubes twice already he still has mild hearing loss (much better then before the tubes).
If I understood the ENT correctly, its the shape of the drainage in the ear canal that affects the hearing loss, if the fluid builds up the ear drum can't work, sound can't get it, causing the hearing loss. Most kids grow out of it. Unfortunately my son hasn't yet.

This problem is the reason a chiropractor can help. They adjust the child so that the drainage works properly.