What to do next

Monitoring your child's hearing

It is recommended that you monitor your child over a period of 3 months to check for improvements in their hearing. You can use the LittleEARS hearing disability test to check if your child is at risk of hearing problems.

Hearing has improved?

If your child appears to be hearing satisfactorily there is no need to do anything further.

Keep monitoring: Glue ear can come and go, especially in the winter months, so you may want to keep monitoring during this period.  You can also take the LittleEARS hearing test again with your child if you have concerns in the future.

If symptoms return: Your child can use the nasal balloon again if their symptoms return. 

Still concerned?

If you are still concerned that your child is not hearing you, has ongoing speech or language problems or is not doing as well at school as you/your child's teacher thinks, we suggest that you make a further appointment with your child's GP for advice.