Liquid Coming Out of My Baby's Ear

J.,

My daughter gets ear infections all the time. She now gets what the doctors call swimmers ear. Which sounds a little like what your son has going on. She gets more of a clear liquid that drips out of her ear and crusts over as she sleeps. It is really painful for her and she gets fevers with the infection. The doctors just send me home with antibiotic and ear drops. There really isn’t much you can do about it, but do the best you can. Some kids are just more prone to ear infections then others. The other advice the doctors have given me over the years is not to use normal q-tip in her ears. Either use the baby q-tip or use a piece of toilet paper twisted up. The normal q-tip tends to push the wax build-up into the ear and can actually help in the cause of a later infection. Also, when bathing your son try to keep as much water out of his ears as possible.

Hope this helps or at least makes you not worry so much....S.

My kids have alot of wax build up in there ears to. I just recently took my youngest who is 23mths to the doctor cause he was crying and holding his ear. When trying to check his ears he could not see cause of the wax. He had to get that little tool and got it out. It was about the size of a petite pea. It did turn out he had a ear infection. But i have had times i see the whole ear covered in wax. But they say thats how the ear cleans itself. I dont think its right. I was told to use baby shampoo and put a drop in the ear and use your finger to massage the ear then lay the child in a warm bath and push on the inner ear part to kind of swish water to clean it out. Its suppose to break up the wax. Wax build up runs on my husbands side. I hope it was nothing major and your son was OK

Hey J.,

I strongly advise you to take him to the emergency room. Nothing should be coming out of the baby's ears. Things you need to observe; has been crying more often, is he cranky. Please take him to see a doctor so that they can make a diagnosis. Let me know how it turns out.

Hi J., it sounds like your son has a lot of wax in his ears. My youngest has this too. You did the right thing by making an appointment, but it really sounds like just a wax build up. An ear infection would be accomipied usually by a low grade fever and all my kids would constantly tug and rub their ears. My son usually wakes up with yellowish wax build up in his ears too, it happens cause they are laying down and it has a chance to drain. If it is just wax build up you just need to keep his outer ear clen, dont stick anything into his ears, this can cause problems, but cleaning the outer ear is ok. the wax is there to help keep dirt and stuff out of his ear. Good luck, let me know how he is!!!! L.

Ear infections are very painful. If it were that then he would be in pain all the time. Especially when he laid down. It gets much worse then. I didn't have my first ear infection until I was in my 20's. I couldn't sleep at night. If he had an ear infection you'd know. He'd also be tugging at his ears.

My son would get the same thing and I noticed a couple of the instances, it was a few days before an ear infection. I think when their ear drum gets warm, it melts whatever wax he has. My son always has a lot of wax so I would always see stuff in his ear (and still do).