What you need to know about ear tube surgery in kids
By the time he was two and a half, Malikai Morrell had already suffered through a whopping 11 ear infections. His family doctor examined him regularly and wasn?t concerned, but when Malikai started junior kindergarten, Amy Morrell realized her son was really struggling. ?I noticed him staring at my lips when I was talking,? she says. ?And when I was reading him books at night, he would put his ear right up to my mouth.? She decided to take him for a hearing test and, sure enough, he failed.
The family got a referral to an ear, nose and throat doctor (ENT), who recommended ear tube surgery. It?s been nearly a year since the procedure, and Malikai, now five, can hear perfectly, even when others are whispering. He also no longer gets ear infections. Myringotomy?the medical name for ear tube surgery?is the most commonly performed childhood surgery done under general anesthesia. By the age of three, one out of every 15 children will have received ear tubes, says Trina Uwiera, a paediatric otolaryngologist in Edmonton.
Why do kids need ear tubes"
Kids who undergo the procedure are usually those who experience chronic ear infections or related hearing problems. Joan Robinson, editor of the Paediatrics & Child Health journal at the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS), and a co-author of the CPS?s statement on ear infections, says the general definition of ?chronic? is three ear infections over a six-month period or four episodes in one year.
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