Hello, I took my ten month old to his pediatrician on Monday because he had a cough. She said he had chest congestion, but also an ear infection. While she was checking out the ear, she was having trouble because my son would get cry and turn away, she also had to clean out the ear because I forgot to clean it out before the appointment, but his other ear was fine and clean. My son kept turning away while she was trying to clean out the inner ear canal, and also while she re-examined his ear. Long story short, that night I noticed dried up blood in his ear. My dad said it was normal after the doctor tried to clean it out, but as of today (Weds.) he still has dried up blood, and I ve been carefully cleaning out the dried up blood and little bit of wax that has been coming out. I know his ear is still sensitive, and I don t want to go near the ear canal, because I am afraid of pushing it into the inner ear.... is the blood normal? Or should I take him back to the pediatrician ?
Hi... can you further describe the. Findings? Does the child have ear discharge? Is there any history of. Previous sucChatDoctorplaints? Does the child accidentally insert any objects into the ear canal causing trauma? Most of the time pediatric age group patients do have earache and discharge along with cough cold suggestive of Otis media or inner ear infection. I hope the child must be already on some local or oral antibiotic preparation. I would advise you to keep the ear as much clean as possible, and you should visit the pediatrician again if the child has increase in pain or discharge or if there is any obvious redness noted.