Ear Infections After Grommets

[GLRichmond]

My daughter is 2yrs old and had her grommet op a little over two weeks ago in both her ears. The left one is fine however the right has green / brown, thick, smelling gunk literally bubbling from her ear - is this common ? X

[ReallyTired]

You need to take your child to the go ASAP. She will need an antibiotic and possibly ear drops (soltradex?) she has an ear infection. If it does not clear up then she will need to see the ent consultant.

[ReallyTired]

Blasted auto correct your daughter needs to see her gp as an emergency appointment

[GLRichmond]

I have taken her to the GP however this ear infection will not clear up ... Think I'm going to have to speak to the consultant she's under at ENT.
Poor thing it's awful

Thanks for the reply x

[Katiebeau]

Hello. The GP must swab and send the gunk to ID the actual correct antibiotics. They should always do this. It could be the chronic infection that caused the glue ear to start with.

Good luck. Poor little one.

[AtSea1979]

Presumably she suffered with this prior? And that's why she has grommets? Treat as usual and carry on. Grommets don't always fix the problem.

[EugenesAxe]

My son had a grommets operation and the consultant said he'd had to clean quite a lot of wax away at the same time. Afterwards (say, for a week) he had a lot of wax coloured, mucousy stuff coming out of one ear especially, when we administered the drops. I just held a tissue to his outer ear and pressed lightly, and it stuck and came away.

He was prescribed AB ear drops and AB oral medicine as a precautionary thing. The discharge didn't smell noticeably bad (like pus might) and he wasn't in pain with it.