Glue ear advice please

The boys have both just been to the doctor following up from their ear infections over winter. Tom has only ever had the one (AUgust) but James had 2 or 3 and I think this is 6-7 weeks after the last infection.

The doctor checked them and to look at they looked good but the tympanometry (sp?) showed glue ear in both of James' and in one of Tom's.

She is taking a wait and see attitude at the moment which is good but I would like to know what other people have experienced. When did you need to get referred? when did they need grommets? what was their behaviour like?

Both my boys have been through this. If you have health insurance ask for a referral to an ENT and get grommets.

I noticed a huge difference after my boys got their grommets in.

We noticed a big difference in Oli once he had the grommets put in. His language blossomed overnight, and he seemed to become more active and curious...and less clingy (although we seem to have regressed at the moment to a clingy grumpy toddler).

Spencer had one flat tympanogram (sp?), our doc took wait and see approach as well and his next two were totally normal, so don't panic just yet.

Have you tryed giving them vitemin a, theres a good product for babies and young children made by karicar called vit c, you get it from the pharmacy. My son is 21 months and has had repetitive ear infections (about 8 since birth) and my MIL said my Hubby was the same. He had everything ear infections and clue ear as a child and they recommended grommets my MIL didn't realy want him to have to have grommets so looked into other things that can possibly fix it and vitemin A was what she found. She loaded him up on vitemin A and continued giving it to him for atleast a year it cleared up everything and hes never had an ear infection since. It seems to be working for our son too as hes been taking karicare vit c for about 3 months now and hasn't had them flare up again at all since. Its worth a try right?