Tubes in an 18 month Old's ears?

My 18 month old son has really bad chronic ear infections due to allergies. His doctor suggested tubes if he gets another infection. I was wondering if anyone else out there has had experience with this and if it helped their child.

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I can tell you, what happens when you don't put tubes in your child's ear. He or she goes through life reading lips, half the time. I had chronic ear infections, when I was a child and as a child I was to active, so the tubes always fell out in a couple of weeks. When I was a teenager, I just covered up the fact I couldn't hear half the time. Got really frustrating and learned to lip read. College was tough, but I adapted. Started a business which turned into a big corporation, still I had the problem. Just recently, I'm 42 now, went to a audiologist to see, how much hearing loss I had, and I found out over 60% loss in both ears. I have spent most of my life, hiding the fact I was hard of hearing, by perfecting the art of reading lips (only the closest people knew). I had tubes put in a month ago, and the change was incredible. I said to myself, Self why didn't I do this, when I knew what the problem was back in high school? Moral of the story. Put the tubes in your child's ear now, and when they fall out, do it again and again, until technology finds a better way to solve this problem and before your child's ego takes hold and the child adapts without them. I think, boy what have I missed...

I work with children and I have alot of kids on my caseload who have had tubes placed and it can help a lot with speech, since children with chronic ear infections usually have speech delays.

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