If your child has been on antibiotics more times than you can count for ear infections that just keep returning, you are not imagining it. You are living a reality that millions of families are living right now.

One infection turns into another. The antibiotics knock it out for a week, then the next cold rolls through, and you're right back at the pediatrician's office with a screaming child and another prescription in hand. Maybe you've already been referred to an ENT. Maybe surgery is on the table.

And through all of it, no one is stopping to ask the one question that actually matters:

Why does this keep happening in the first place?

Chronic ear infections, also known as chronic otitis media, occur when there is a recurring buildup of fluids, inflammation, and swelling that block the eustachian tube, leading to pressure and pain in the middle ear. But what causes your child’s recurrent infections?