Jayden is having ear problems again! Ever since he was a baby, he's had ear problems. In December, he had what we thought was a ruptured ear drum but when we took him to the doctor, he said it was fine and sent us away with some ear drops to "prevent infection". He's been mostly fine until Tuesday. He was in a lot of pain and acting weak (like he does when he's sick) so he stayed home from school. I sent him to school yesterday but when I picked him up, his teacher said, "He was kind of... like that." As she pointed to him while he was walking slowly towards me. At 2am this morning, I baked an onion for around 45 minutes, extracted the juices, put some in a dropper and began the odd but strangely effective procedure that I would repeat every two hours throughout the night. He would lay across my lap with the hurting ear pointed up and I would drop about two drops of warm onion oil in his ear. Then I would rub behind his ear all the way to his lymph nodes to help the oil get all the way through. The rubbing was sometimes painful but the drops calmed his screaming almost immediately and within a few minutes, he was relaxed enough to fall back asleep. Apparently, onions have a similar affect on inflammation as garlic oil does. I also read that putting a warm chunk of this cooked onion on his ear would help with the pain. As silly as it was, we tried it and he loved it - until it got cold. He started requesting it. :)
He stayed home again today - little sleep and painful ear would not do well at school.
I sure hope this ear problem goes away soon!! My little guy is in so much pain!
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