Inattention and speech delays.<\/strong> Excess fluid in the middle ear can cause temporary or fluctuating hearing loss, making it seem like your child is inattentive at home or school when in reality, they are simply struggling to understand. Hearing loss in younger children can also interfere with speech and language development. If your child appears to be struggling with their speech and vocabulary, have their pediatrician check for the possibility of a chronic ear infection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nFor more information on how to spot the signs of an ear infection and remedies to ease the symptoms, reach out to your Wynnewood audiologist today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ear infections are one of the most common childhood ailments; in fact, more children visit a doctor to treat ear infections in Wynnewood than any other medical condition. They are not just confined to kids, either \u2013 adults can experience ear infections, too. Ear pain is obviously the most common sign, but there are other…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"(610) 642-9301 | Wynnewood | Ear infections are a very common childhood ailment; but they are not just for to kids \u2013 adults can experience them, too.","_seopress_robots_index":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentadocs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentadocs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentadocs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentadocs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentadocs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pentadocs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentadocs.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentadocs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentadocs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentadocs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}