ear infections as a child | ADHD Information

Just a question I was wondering...

I wrote something about this in another thread, but I don't think nobody noticed....

I read in an ADD book that doctors said there seems to be a lot of ad/hders who had lots of ear infections as a young kid or a little baby.  Others, if they did not have ADD may have had asthma problems....

I know my mother says I had very frequent ear infections...

My husband is also AD/HD, he did not have the ear infections, but he did have the asthma...

What about you guys?? Did you have these problems as a child?  Does your ad/hd child have these problems a lot?

[QUOTE=GypsyWomyn] My sister had an ear ache every summer. [/QUOTE]

Interesting.... Does your sister have Ad/hd also?  I dunno if it is something that makes some of us more prone them or not...

My mom says that I got them every summer also, when I was a baby, she said she thought it was from coming in from the heat of the summer into the cool air-conditioning back and forth alot...

I asked some of the people I know personally that have ad/hd and a the vast majority, (but not all) said they did have ear ache's all the time as young children... one of the exceptions being my husband, who had problems with asthma instead......

I still have problems with my ears to this very day...

sonya_h38415.9812615741I consider myself very fortunate...I've never had an ear infection, or what we used to call an ear ache. Nor asthma. One day this past year, my ear started to bleed...from the inside. However the doctor never found anything wrong. I'm assuming I had a bite of some sort (urgh!) inside, and it bleed every time the scab came loose.    Scared the bigeebies out of me, tho. My sister had an ear ache every summer. We lived on a lake in Upstate New York, so we swam a lot. I guess I was the lucky one.   

Hummm  this is interesting,   My son had add and was dx at age 6.   but when he was small he had 36 ear infections in a space of 14 months.  and then had to have tubes put in his ears.  that fixed the problem but we do live in Alberta, Canada and it is extremly dry here,  that is the reason the dr's gave me as to why he kept getting them.   I  used to wrap him up so well as a baby and always put a hat on his head, but still he got them.

For myself, I used to get them too, but it went unnoticed and today I can hardly hear out of the one ear and my doctor said he thinks i had a burst ear drum from an infection as a kid and it went un noticed.

This is very interesting!   I learn more and more each day from this site and am so glad u guys are all out there.

I was one of the  early kids to get tubes in my ears  from chronic  strep when I was in 3rd grade in 69.  God only knows how many I had all I remember  was  I always had earaches...MY folks did learn that I was allergic to actifed prescription str  at that time...gave it too me   in 2nd grade and I was the little engine that could for over 24 straight  sleepless hours for them

[QUOTE=Momma Jo] but when he was small he had 36 ear infections in a space of 14 months.  [/QUOTE]

 

OMIGOSH, THAT'S HORRIBLE!! I can just imagine how miserable that must have been!!