Four-year-old girl left with hearing loss for over a year after being left untreated
Kara Dilliway was just three years old when she came down with a common ear infection in October 2022.
She recovered quickly, as was expected, but just days after the infection cleared her parents found she was struggling to hear and talk.
“We’d noticed she’d just started to say yes and no to things, that’s when we thought something is going on,” says her mother Sam Dilliway, a 41-year-old community care worker from Basildon, Essex. Doctors said she could have a common condition – fluid build-up had started to cause problems with her hearing, and
