Tubes fall in the inner ear in a 5 year old?

Question

I have a 6 year old son and we just found out that his 10 month check up showed that one of the tubes fell inwards into his inner ear. Everything I read says this is very rare yet it does not give much more information???? Has anyone had this happened and if so please give me any information?

thanks in advance,
David

Answer 1

Tubes placed into the eardrum to help with chronic middle ear infections are designed so that they fall outward into the ear canal and eventually out the ear. If they did manage to fall inward, they would only fall into the middle ear and not the inner ear. The doctor may well have to remove the tube if it causes problems.

Answer 2

I suffer from ear problems but one thing that might interest you is there is a theory that these tubes are not necessary as the ear infection will run its course. get ent to treat this as this is very serious. don't rely on the Internet except Web MD might advise you but the actual treatment should be a ENT or a good GP.
I lost part of my hearing cause I let the infection go to far. Now I have less then 50 % of my hearing. This hearing will never come back and I have to wear an expensive hearing aides.

Answer 3

No, I never knew that could happen, but I am not surprised. They may have to remove his eardrum to take it out. For all of you who do not know this be warned. My sons both were born almost completely deaf. They had tubes put in their ears at 3 and 5 years of age. They lost them after 1 week, and had another set put in. By saying they lost them, they fell out of the eardrum into the canal. I didn't know until they went to the clinic in Iowa City, which is a teaching hospital. TUBES CAN CAUSE TUMORS! They thought my older son had one (a tumor) from the tubes. This would have involved drilling a hole into the bone just behind the ear and draining it. This would have been a lifetime of medical care, having it continuously drained and cleaned. Luckily before drilling into his bone, the Dr. decided to remove his eardrum to see what the tumor looked like only to discover it wasn't a tumor at all but ear wax that had built up inside the inner ear. They grafted him a new ear drum, but this has failed since it attached itself to the small bones on the inner ear side of his ear canal. Drs did not tell me all of this could happen when they decided to have tubes put in their ears. They said it was rare to have a tumor happen like this, yet they told me in the next sentence not to worry about the surgery to drill into the bone to put in drains, it was a common procedure. COMMON PROCEDURE FOR WHAT? If it was so common, then what caused them to have to do this? I just want all of you to be ware of having tubes in your childrens ears. My youngest son is now 23 and has had this one tube in his ear since he was 4. AND THEY WANT TO PUT NEW ONE'S IN! After having it done at 3, his ears constantly drained a foul smelling discharge, were raw all the time and bled. He grew immune to all the antibiotic, some would make him scream they burned so bad. And since losing the one, he no longer has drainage in that ear, but they want to put a new tube in his eardrum because: ( IT DOESN'T LOOK NORMAL) How is a new tube going to make it look normal? Could it be from scar tissue? Do they even know what they are doing? Another ENT, told him his eardrum looked fine. Just BEWARE people.

Answer 4

My son (39 now) tube did fall in he was in a growing spurt and then about three weeks later I found it on his pillow. If not it is easily retrieved and another put in.

Answer 5

never heard of it but look it up and the only removal I found was surgery

Answer 6

did ya beat him that could've knocked it loose?