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Those whose LO's have had an ear infection
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DD keeps tilting her head to one side and rubbing it against her arm/shoulder. She's not wanting to take a bottle, she fights and screams when we try to give her one. She'll eventually start sucking but then pushes it away after like 3 oz. What say you? Ear infection? Teething? Attitude problem? She's fighting naps in her crib but will fall asleep in the car without much fuss.
We're out of town and I'm debating taking her to a clinic to get looked at. I think she feels warm but I don't have a thermometer with me. MIL is going to get one when she goes out this afternoon.
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Re: Those whose LO's have had an ear infection
When Noelle has them (yes plural - waiting for doc to mention tubes) she will take a bottle fine but refuses solids. She also hasn't ever had a fever with either of them.
My best advice is to just call and check. Each time I've done this she's had an infection and the antibiotics take the pain away pretty quickly.
Better safe than sorry in my book. Poor Lainey
ETA: since you're out of town - try laying her on her back and see if she fights it/screams. If she does, I'd for sure find a clinic. Laying on their backs is painful when their ears are infected. Has she had a runny nose at all? Ear infection symptoms are just like teething symptoms in many cases.
She's doing the opposite, chowing solids and refusing bottles. I'm leaning towards teething but I don't know. She's crashed out right now, I'll see how she's doing when she wakes up.
Did you see my edit? If she's upset when you lay her on her back I'd bring her somewhere. If not, I might just try Tylenol and see how she is later on.
Good luck!
This is where the attitude problem question comes in. If I lie her flat in my arms, she doesn't make a peep, but if I place her in her crib, she freaks out. Remember, we're in MA, we're not at home and it's an unfamiliar room. She could be scared. When I handed her her lovey (which I forgot to give her for the last 2 days because I'm an awful person) she calmed down, placed it over her face and passed the eff out.
I did give her some ibuprofen, but I'm not sure if it helped.
Yeah since you're out of town maybe I'd just watch her for now. When Noelle has them she'll be playing fine then suddenly she'll just stop and start screaming/hitting the side of her head. Like the fluid moved or something.
Usually they also have some cold symptom for a day or two prior to the infection. If Lainey has been fine then my guess is teeth and/or attitude problem (which Noelle also gets quite regularly) Ha.
We're on the 3rd type of antibiotic to get rid of G's ear infection. He had a horrible cough with his, too. He didn't pull on his ears until after the 1st round of antibiotics didn't work. At this point our Dr. told us it was "one of the worst ears" she'd ever seen.
I'd have her checked out to be safe so that it DOESN'T get too severe if it is an ear infection. However, I did read that when ear tugging is the primary symptom, it's rarely an ear infection. Usually it's just the child "finding" his/her ears.
DS has had two and we are still on round two of meds because his one infection won't go away. That was exactly what he was doing at the same time he was cutting a tooth. I'm not sure whether his behaviors were more because of the ear or the teeth or as a result of the combination of two. But, I would definitely get her in to a clinic. It could be from the plane - didn't you say in an earlier post that you flew with her somewhere?
Also - DS never had a fever with either ear infections. He was perfectly normal except for eating less, fussier with nursing/bottles, and pulling on his ear.