Ear infections & Prevnar?

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Hi All!

I have not been posting much recently here (below is why!), but I

wanted to ask those of you whose infants/toddlers got ear infections

if the Prevnar vaccine worked for your babies?

got his first ear infection back in Dec at 15 months....and

last month he got a REALLY bad one in both ears. We had to take him

to an after-hours clinic on a Sat. nite....the Dr. prescribed an

antiobiotic, but it wasn't strong enough to kill the infection in

both ears...so we were back about 10 days later to our ped, who

confirmed it hadn't resolved the infection, but he also had effusion

this time, too. After a 2nd round of antibiotics, he seems fine

now. We go back Friday am to the ped and I wanted to see if we

should get him vaccinated with Prevnar....

Those of you who have gotten the vaccine, did it work? I was just

curious to see if it was something worth looking into, because I'm

sure it is pricey (we got the meningitis vaccine $90! because of a

meningitis outbreak here), and have heard it isn't a cure-all. Any

thoughts? Should I wait until after the 3rd infection (and hope he

doesn't get another one!)? I know, it really is only 2 infections! I

sure feel for those of you who have had it much rougher with many

more than that!!

The biggest irony of this is that (no plagio) had 2 ear

infections at 6 and 9 months(during nursing!)and hasn't had any

since. (had plagio), and didn't get any ear infections until 4

months after nursing and finishing the DOC bands! I would have

expected HIM to get the ear infections when his ears were so off! I

know, all kids are different, but it sure isn't what I thought would

be happening!

Tami

9/99 (DOC bands 3/00-8/00)

7/97

Tulsa, OK