My daughter had tubes when she was 6 months old. It didn’t stop the infection, just made her more comfortable while green stuff oozed out of her ears. At 12 months, the surgeon said the tubes were clogged and they needed to put more tubes in. I decided to go another route. We went to a 7th Day Adventist clinic, and the doctor there put her on a vegan diet. She stayed on that diet for a year and never had another infection! It didn’t hurt her development one bit. In fact, she developed hyperlexia