Baby is a snot factory!

[littleEDfamily]

Our 7 month old has had quite a rotten cold. No temperature, except last Friday was slightly elevated. Just really snotty - pretty chirpy baby so smiley, eating and drinking as normal.

But! She is quite alarmingly full of snot, and, here comes my question - even her ears are gunky. It doesn't seem to hurt her at all if I touch them, but it seems there is snot actually coming out of her ear. Poor tot.

I am loathe to take her to the doc, as it is so full of sick people and I suspect they would say there is nothing they can do, but should I be more concerned about this ear snot?

[littleEDfamily]

Turns out, after going to doc afterall, she has a perforated eardrum. Makes sense....

[ClareC]

ooh no, poor little thing :-(

Do they have any idea what caused it? Must admit I hadn't heard of snot coming out of ears before.

Hope she feels better soon.

[littleEDfamily]

Thanks ClareC. It's like an overflow pipe of sorts, the ear that is. The doc said that when there is too much pressure in the head from congestion, the ear gets a little hole and it comes out of there. Pretty gross. They seemed quite relaxed about it - apparently quite common with little ones. I feel awful for her as she she was quite whingey on Friday night, but quite chipper on Sat when the ear snot started. Maybe it's one of those better in than out scenarios!