What's behind chronic ear infections in kids Welcome to Cloverleaf Chiropractic Show. Today, we're going to talk about chronic infection in kids, what's behind this and what's the best way to handle it, how do you help the children that have ear infections. So I'm going to talk about how to manage this situation and how to help the kids. Welcome to the Cloverleaf Chiropractic Show, a podcast advocating wellness, life and healing from within. With 38 years in practice, 50,000 patients, and over 1 million chiropractic adjustments, here's your host, Dr. Daniel Abeckjerr. My name is Dr. Daniel Abeckjerr, I'm a Doctor of Chiropractic. Stay tuned. I'm doing this show to educate the public on health and wellness, in basically how are we going to help the kids today when they have chronic infection. And I know it's a common problem that a lot of kids have. Over 80% of the kids, the children, experience at least one ear infection by age 3 according to NIH. Ear infection is a very common problem. As parents, we should increase our knowledge on this condition. Chiropractic can help ear infection, and the situation, this condition can be fixed with chiropractic care. What are ear infections? Where do they call from? It is an inflammation that happens in the inner ear. The infection manifests as fluid builds up behind the eardrum. So this condition is called otitis media. It is very common in young children and toddlers and infants. This is the number one reason why parents take their kids to an ear infection specialist. When it comes to otitis media, everybody is vulnerable. Seniors can get it, young teenagers can get, pregnant women can get it, younger adults, middle aged people, young children. No one is immune to this condition. Children are more at risk with this, and it’s much more common with young kids. So why the kids have a greater risk of getting otitis media or ear infection? Because the anatomy, the way the anatomy is, the Eustachian tube which is the tube in the ear, happens to be smaller in kids. And the tubes when they're developed, they're not really thick, they're kind of flat in children, and basically it allows less space for the ear to clear. And basically, the fluid doesn't drain out properly from the ear, and it's much more difficult for this to happen. So sometimes the Eustachian tube can swell and it can be blocked by mucus, especially when the child has a cold.