Chiropractic Care Can Help With Ear Infections

Any responsible parent cannot bear to see their child in great pain. Seeing the child develop ear infection is a parent's nightmare. It causes an unexplainable pain which makes the parents worry about their children's welfare. Therefore, the parents look for convenient ways to manage and cure their children's condition.

The children's Eustachian tube (tube that links the pharynx to the middle ear) is smaller in diameter when compared with an adult's tube. For this reason, younger children are more susceptible to ear infections. Typically, this results to difficulty of draining the fluid whenever the child experiences or gets cold. Later on, when the Eustachian tubes are blocked, fluid will continually build up in the middle ear and infections will then start to develop. If this is left untreated, it may lead to damage of the ear drums which in turn would result to deafness.

An article entitled, "Chiropractic Adjustments for Chronic Ear Infections" published in the October 1998 issue of the Ladies Home Journal, cited about the various benefits and effects of chiropractic care towards ear infections. It also highlighted how chiropractic therapy can prevent recurrence of infections in the ear.

The article identified that 35% of all the pediatrician visits are due to reoccurring ear infections experienced by children. These infections are caused by either bacteria or virus. Doctors immediately provide medication regimen with antibiotics. However, antibiotics can only be effective for bacterial ear infections and not on viral conditions. And although these can cure bacterial infections, they cannot ultimately stop its recurrence.

In addition, excessive antibiotic intake can lead to the development of a more serious drug-resistant infection. A child who experiences this ailment may possibly need to undergo some surgical management requiring general anesthesia. Obviously, this does not sound pleasant to both parents and child.

So, what then would be a great alternative for this? You've guessed it, a management that is more conventional and appeasing. The article also mentioned how chiropractic care can stop the recurrence of ear infection once the child has undergone chiropractic therapy. A chiropractor will manipulate some bones of the neck and spine in order to unblock the fluids that caused infection in the ear. This chiropractic rehabilitation will correct any misalignments, scientifically known as subluxations, in the musculoskeletal system. As a result, the drainage of fluid from the middle ear would return to normal.

If parents cannot afford the expensive ear-tube surgery and cannot bear to see their child suffer from such a drastic management, then there is always another more natural and affordable option of curing their child from ear infection. This option is called chiropractic rehabilitation. Many parents can testify how chiropractic therapy helped their child become well again. Furthermore, they can testify how chiropractic prevented recurrence of the infection.

In conclusion, parents know how hard it is for their children to experience ear infections. They cannot bear to see their children in pain. Early and prompt treatment is necessary to avoid serious complications that can lead to a full blown ear infection. Many parents can testify how chiropractic care helped their children from ear infections. Not only can chiropractic therapy cure the condition, it can also prevent ear infection recurrence.