Re: How long does it take a child to recover from an ear infection?

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:25:09 -0500, "Donna Metler"
<dmmetler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>My daughter started antibiotics for an ear infection yesterday, and
>honestly, today she's acting fine, and hasn't really needed pain medication,
>been pulling on her ear, or anything like that. She's eating reasonably
>well, although she's low on the number of ounces of EBM she's taken today.
>Is it safe for me to send her to mother's day out tomorrow and go ahead and
>teach my class at the college, or should I attempt to get peer coverage or
>try to contact my students and reschedule my class and stay home with her.
>Realistically, I can only reschedule or get someone to cover for me once or
>twice at most, and I hate to use one if it won't be a problem to send her to
>MDO tomorrow, since we're just starting cold and flu season.

It will take a while before the infection is gone, but I say if she's
acting fine and isn't bothered or with obvious signs of illness I'd
send her.

Nan

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