Ear infections in older kids??

[msdznyduck]

DD15 has an upper respiratory infection, and is coughing and blowing her brains out since Thurs night. Fri morning she got up with 'piercing pain' in her left ear. I took her to the Dr. and he said she had an ear infection, cause 'it is bulging in there'. So she comes home and gets in bed and tells me she feels like shotguns are going off in her ears, echoing, and everything is really loud. I left to go get her prescription filled and stop at the store for some OJ. About an hour later, she gets out of bed, and she has some kind of liquid dripping out of her ear down her neck. YUCK.... I called the Dr back, and he said that her eardrum has exploded from the pressure and she now has a perforated eardrum. He said it will heal itself in a little while, no hearing loss. Now, I have 3 kids, and all of them had ear infections at one time or another, and this has never happened before. THe Dr said it was pretty common for older kids and that it is good that it is draining.
Has anyone had older kids that had ear infections that this has happened to??

 

[cepmom]

it happens to my oldest DD all the time (15 years old). She has been getting ear infections all her life. She had the tubes put in twice when she was little and it helped, but she still gets ear infections now where the pus drains out. She just had her third one since August a couple of weeks ago, so we are back to the ENT to see what he wants to do.

 

[wdwmom2]

I work in a pediatric practice and see it all the time. More common in the younger crowd, but have seen plenty of teens with it. Just make sure that she finishes the entire prescription.