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My child has glue ear – what do I do?

  • Written by Chris Brennan-Jones, Senior Research Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia
imageRepeated ear infections and prolonged episodes of glue ear can result in permanent hearing loss.from shutterstock.com

Around one in four Australian children will have recurrent ear infections in their first three years of life. This decreases as children get older. But by the time children start school, one in ten will still have glue ear, which...

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