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What Causes Ear Infection With Bleeding?

My son is 16 months and had tubes put in at 4 mo's old. Since the tubes it seems he has been more sick with ear infections contantly. In the past two months he has had one ear infection followed by a double ear infection and now his ear is bleeding. Is this normal?
Thu, 28 Jun 2018
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

My thoughts and suggestions are as below. The ear tubes or grommets as it is called are put in to act as ventilation tubes so that the middle ear which is aerated by the Eustachian tubes may be malfunctioning. Recurrent ear infections indicate that your baby has an infection focus in the adenoid area. Hence proper treatment of nose, adenoids and throat can help to have proper recovery and the grommets can be removed once the Eustachian tubes start working well.

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What Causes Ear Infection With Bleeding?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. My thoughts and suggestions are as below. The ear tubes or grommets as it is called are put in to act as ventilation tubes so that the middle ear which is aerated by the Eustachian tubes may be malfunctioning. Recurrent ear infections indicate that your baby has an infection focus in the adenoid area. Hence proper treatment of nose, adenoids and throat can help to have proper recovery and the grommets can be removed once the Eustachian tubes start working well. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.