Well seems to be a common occurrence when you have a little person – that is visiting the doctor. I took Pyper to the after hours medical care to get her ears looked at, she was very unsettled grumpy and kept pulling at them.

So we waited and then saw the doctor, I recalled in my mind how many times I had taken her to our regular GP and as this was a Saturday our family doctor wasnt available. I counted it was her fourth time in what seemed like 3-4 months.

The doctor said yes her ear drum was inflamed but wouldnt be prescribing any antibiotics – OMG i just about cried it was one of those shall i say something or will I just listen to reason??

Yep i just listened to reason this particular time! This is weird for me but I thought ok there must be a good reason for this diagnosis??

He said that he had been to an ENT – Ear Nose and Throat conference just lately and they were suggesting to just treat with Pamol. Yay I thought wife is going to kill me!

Seriously i was more worried about what Renee would say then how Pyper was feeling! So I took her home and gave her the Pamol of which she also seem to come down with a cough and also broncolitas during the week which we thought was just tied in with her ears.

We took her back to the doctors and saw that she had been 5 times because of her ears and that our doctor wasnt prepared to prescribe any antibiotics either!

Lesson to be learnt if still no happy find your regular doctor and secondly if your child gets lots of antibiotics then make sure you analyse it so that you make sure you know what is being administered to them!

Good luck

- Scott

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