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- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Path: sparky!uunet!tessi!allen
- From: allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren)
- Subject: Re: vaporizer, anyone? replaces decongestant
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.231724.26975@tessi.com>
- Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
- References: <25779@sybase.sybase.com> <1ebngkINNr74@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:17:24 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- pburch@bcm.tmc.edu (Paula Burch) writes:
-
-
- >How do you prevent ear infections in a baby?
-
- I don't know if you can really prevent them, but then again, I'm
- not a doctor, just a parent of two boys who both had several ear
- infections prior to reaching 1.5 years of age.
-
- According to several pediatricians that we have spoken with, there
- *seems* to be evidence that some children being more prone to ear
- infections that others is due to hereditary factors. I can state
- that this is true for our boys and for 80% of friends families we
- know. I don't know if this is entirely true across the board, but
- I can believe it due to my own experience and limited research.
-
- As far as the ear infections themselves, and since they're primarily
- due to the very small tubes in children's ears, they're not too
- preventable, unless you highly limit the access your child has with
- other people (young and old). I know that for our two boys, there
- was a span of a month where the oldest wasn't attending daycare and
- oddly enough, that was the only month that neither of them got sick.
-
- So, I don't know if any of the above helped, but I know that limiting
- outside access (people, not the great outdoors necessarily) is
- helpful.
-
- Oh, one more thing on this subject . . .
-
- A lot of people say you shouldn't take children swimming if they have
- ear infections or if they're prone to ear infections. Most people think
- it's due to the water getting in their ears or their hair being wet
- or whatever, but the real reason is that many, many bacteria are in
- the water and THESE are the culprits which lead to the ear infections.
-
- allen
-