Cross your fingers that baby does ok on plane!

[DentalDana]

We leave Friday morning for WDW! That's the obvious good news.

The bad news, my almost 8mo old DS has a double ear infection and a sinus infection. He's had a cold for about two weeks and over the weekend his eyes got super gooey (TMI, but it was like snot in his eyes and lashes) and last night he was up howling in pain. My first thought was the two upper incisors that he's teething, but my mommy instinct said to take him to the ped today to make sure it's not his ears b/f we go on a plane. My mommy instincts were spot on, it's in both of his ears and the goup in his eyes is indicative of a sinus infection according to the MD. Teething is just the cherry on top .

At least he'll have a full 2 days of antibiotics in him. I just hope motrin, a bottle and his thumb are enough to keep his ears from being a mess on the plane.

 

[woodkins]

Did you ask the pedi if it was safe for him to fly with a double ear infection? I know that this happened to a friend and she was told not to fly as it could rupture the eardrum/damage the child's hearing.

 

[katied]

We had this happen with DS about 1 week before a trip to Europe. I took him back right before the trip to get his ears checked out and make sure he was OK to fly - they don't like kids flying with too much fluid in the ears, can cause them to rupture. All was OK. The ped did recommend that I give a small dose of benedryl 30 min before take off (so really, not until we were on the plane). DS had already had benedryl, so we knew he would not have a bad reaction.

So - I would confirm if flying is OK on Fri with your ped, and also ask if Benedryl may be helpful to aleviate pain on the flight (it serves to help dry things out, which reduces the amount of pressure they feel with the take off/landing).

 

[DentalDana]

Did you ask the pedi if it was safe for him to fly with a double ear infection? I know that this happened to a friend and she was told not to fly as it could rupture the eardrum/damage the child's hearing.

My ped knows we are flying on Friday. When I told her it was to WDW, she asked if she could come with us!

 

[bumbershoot]

Goop in eyes and lashes has always, always, been conjunctivitis (aka pink eye) for me and anyone I know in real life.

I traveled with a getting-sick 5 year old...actually a "just got over being sick" 5 year old down to DLR, then a "getting sick again" 5 year old on the way home, and it was miserable. For us, for him, for those around us, especially when he lost his earplane and threw up (in DH's hand!) from the state he worked himself up into.

After that experience, I WILL cancel any trip that anyone is sick going into. I'd cancel if I were you. Pediatricians have been known to be wrong (in my experience, more often than right).

I wish you luck. If you insist on going, I'd bring barf bags, I'd bring earplugs for those around you (that's a tip I read from the wife of a pilot who travels with her kids!), and...well, I have nothing else b/c I wouldn't go.

I was on a *train* with a "got sick while we were away" kid and it was misery misery misery...for everyone involved and around us...and that's without air pressure changes! I wish I had remembered that trip when deciding to go ahead with our "just got over illness" trip in October!

 

[DentalDana]

Goop in eyes and lashes has always, always, been conjunctivitis (aka pink eye) for me and anyone I know in real life.

I traveled with a getting-sick 5 year old...actually a "just got over being sick" 5 year old down to DLR, then a "getting sick again" 5 year old on the way home, and it was miserable. For us, for him, for those around us, especially when he lost his earplane and threw up (in DH's hand!) from the state he worked himself up into.

After that experience, I WILL cancel any trip that anyone is sick going into. I'd cancel if I were you. Pediatricians have been known to be wrong (in my experience, more often than right).

I wish you luck. If you insist on going, I'd bring barf bags, I'd bring earplugs for those around you (that's a tip I read from the wife of a pilot who travels with her kids!), and...well, I have nothing else b/c I wouldn't go.

I was on a *train* with a "got sick while we were away" kid and it was misery misery misery...for everyone involved and around us...and that's without air pressure changes! I wish I had remembered that trip when deciding to go ahead with our "just got over illness" trip in October!

Trust me, this was not a case of pink eye. It literally looked like snot and is already gone (his eyes were never red or pink). The dr said that it was the snot/mucous backing up into the tear ducts and that's how sinus infections present in infants. The dr (whom I trust dearly) told us to have a great time and that the warmer weather (it's been b/t 20 and 32 here) would do him a lot of good.

 

[katied]

I have an acute sinus infection myself right now, was at the dr. yesterday, and had my eyes checked because I have the mucus backing up into them as well. I guess it can happen to adults too - but I was told it is not pink eye.

 

[DentalDana]

What a relief, he did great. He had 2 full days of antibiotics, a dose of motrin about 2.5 hrs before the flight. As soon as we got to our seats, used the nasal aspirator and he was asleep before we even got to the runway. DH slipped a bottle into his mouth for the take off and he was out for an hour. The rest of the flight he was his old happy self. Luckily he was famished as we made our descent, and sucked down an entire bottle.