{"id":168143,"date":"2023-07-22T16:28:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T21:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/ear-infections-in-babies-and-toddlers"},"modified":"2023-07-22T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T21:28:43","slug":"ear-infections-in-babies-and-toddlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/ear-infections-in-babies-and-toddlers","title":{"rendered":"Ear Infections in Babies and Toddlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ear-infections-in-babies-and-toddlers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ear infections in babies and toddlers are extremely common. In fact, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nidcd.nih.gov\/health\/ear-infections-children\">National Institutes of Health<\/a>, five out of six children will experience an ear infection before their third birthday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany parents are concerned that an ear infection will affect their child\u2019s hearing irreversibly\u2014or that an ear infection will go undetected and untreated,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/profiles\/results\/directory\/profile\/0003393\/david-tunkel\">David Tunkel, M.D.<\/a>, Johns Hopkins Medicine pediatric otolaryngologist (ENT). \u201cThe good news is that most ear infections go away on their own, and those that don\u2019t are typically easy to treat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ear infections happen when there is inflammation\u2014 usually from trapped bacteria\u2014in the middle ear, the part of the ear connects to the back of the nose and throat. The most common type of ear infection is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/health\/conditions-and-diseases\/otitis-media\">otitis media<\/a>, which results when fluid builds up behind the eardrum and parts of the middle ear become infected and swollen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ear infections in babies and toddlers are extremely common. In fact, according to the National Institutes of Health, five out of six children will experience an ear infection before their third birthday. \u201cMany parents are concerned that an ear infection will affect their child\u2019s hearing irreversibly\u2014or that an ear infection will go undetected and untreated,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}