Teething or ??
Luke is crabby and is sleeping poorly. Several times during the night he woke up and stayed awake for an hour or so. He wasn't playing, just couldn't sleep. A few times he didn't even want to nurse. I figure his teeth must be really bothering him. If it is his teeth.
I'm starting to wonder if he has an ear infection, but am dreading taking him to the dr. It's a $20 co pay and all we would get out of it is a "yes" or "no". Dr. won't prescribe antibiotics (fine with me) for earaches.....So where does that leave us?
I've been giving him Hylands Teething tablets. They seem to take the edge off, but they don't work as well as Tylenol. I'm going to try the maximum dose of the tablets tonight to see if that does any better....
I'm off to surf the web for some ideas....
posted by Jenn @ 9:20 AM
1 Comments:
You're going to think I'm crazy (well, you already do!). Express some breastmilk and put a couple of drops in his ear(s). If it is an infection, the antibiotic properties of the breastmilk with clear it up. This works for pink-eye, too, should you ever face that (but you'd have to put it in his EYE then ;)
If you don't want to do the breastmilk, a few drops of warmed (not hot) olive oil will work to ease the pain. You can add garlic oil to it for antibiotic properties, or put one toe of garlic in his ear if you can find one small enough to fit but large enough to not get wedged in.
I hope he feels better!
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