constant ear infections

Posted By nancy on August 24, 1998 at 18:20:31:







My grandaughter at 6-7 mos had tubes put in both ears because she had constant ear infections and was on antibotilics. she would clear up after treatment but then start back up with fevers and ear infections again, so the tubes were put in.
Since then she does get brainagae from the tubes but half the time she gets fevers and ear infections again (almost a yr now.) This keeps her out of daycare alot and parents have to take off work. Plus she is on antibolitics treatment again and again, clears up with treatment but later gets them back again. I'm worried that down the road when in serious need, not that the ear infections aren't, that antibolitics won't help her because she has had to take so much of them this first yr of life.
Why does a child keep getting ear infections? Should something more be checked or done?
Thanks