grommets

my boy is waiting to see specialist about grommets..........as he has had ear infection for a year docs cant get rid of it completely and antibotics are either not working or he isnt taking them cause we are poisoning him ......which has led to him not eating(he knows we put it in his food).........so my question is what happens etc and any other info you can give me...........how long do you have to wait (no medical insurance) ? can you fly with it and how long do they last in the ear? i know the specialist will answer these for me but just wanted to know now.

are being told that i will need 2 go private cause they need to be done quikly

Are grommets really common then? It seems like a lot of kids have them

SimSam wrote: It has made a huge amount of differnce to my wee fella. His language has exploded since he got them.

well thats another thing.......he doesnt talk........he has just started saying mummy and daddy poppie and nannie..........thank you and pls have just entered but he cant say sentences or anythng.......he is trying and getting frusted doing so i feel so sorry for him............doesnt help that mia has been in hospital and i have no time to sit and play with him or cuddle him for long when he is sick was gonna try and leave the baby with my parents for an hour while i take him to mcds on monday but he is on a hunger strike at the moment

Hmm. Is there much you can do to prevent them from happening at all?

I don't think I've ever had an ear infection, so I guess I thought they weren't very common

ETA: I was fully BF until I was three though! (Sorry Mum!)

Edited by Jelly

And then there are kids like mine who will get ear infections no matter what you do - Chiara was exclusively breastfed to 6 mths and is still being breastfed at 13 mths, hasn't been exposed to smoke, doesn't go to daycare and is immunised (she has had the URTI probs tho) and she is already on to her second lot of grommets.

Everyone else has already given you some pretty good advice/info so far so I won't bore you with anymore, our experiences have been pretty much as Simsam described - in theatre about 20-30mins, and home within an hour and half - and it's so minor that the gremlins went to gymastics within 2 hours of having their last lot.

In terms of the difference it makes, it's huge. My girls have a tendency to lose grommets on a regular basis (Mercedes once lost one within a week of the surgery) and I can tell now by their behaviour/attention span if their grommets are out or their ears are bad coz it immediately deteriorates.

Best of luck, you won't regret it. He'll be a different kid - Sienna has gone from being six months delayed with her language to normal for her age since she had the last lot.