Should your toddler have ear tubes inserted to help prevent ear infections? The inner ear is full of air and is connected to the outside through the eustachian tube that opens into the back of your mouth. Young children have narrow eustachian tubes that can close and fill with fluid that causes ear pressure and pain. If your doctor sees fluid causing the ear drum to bulge outward, he knows that the eustachian tube is closed and often prescribes antibiotics and a cortisone-type nasal spray. Antihistamines do not open eustachian tubes. Doctors sometimes remove tonsils and adenoids or give allergy injections, but these treatments have an extraordinarily high failure rate.
Long gone are the days when women left work to raise their children when they discovered they were pregnant. In today’s socio economic climate, it is usually a necessity that women return to the workplace once they have completed their maternity leave. The only problem is, breast feeding then becomes a luxury that many nursing mothers are not able to afford due to the problems associated with both working and breastfeeding.