My children were born with a preauricular pit
@shaggin (71666)
United States
January 9, 2018 10:42am CST
My son asked me today why he has a little hole in the upper part of his ear. I told him I wasn’t sure but that his sister was born with it too.
I decided to do a web search to see what I could find. It was easy to figure out! It is called a Preauricular pit.
They have never has any problems with it and hopefully never do. I know I don’t have this and I am pretty sure their father did not either but since he is dead I can’t look to see for sure.
On the sites I read up on this congenital issue it said some medicines cause it like when a pregnant mother takes thyroid medication.
While I was pregnant I took Zoloft with both my kids but with only my first child did I take a bunch of different medications for chronic utis. With my son I didn’t take medicine for utis but got a really bad one that made me really sick and put me in labor with him 2 weeks early. However I didn’t know why I was so sick until after he was born.
I couldn’t take a picture of my kids ear because my son will get upset so I attached a link to a website that shows information and pictures.
Preauricular cysts, pits (as shown below), fissures, and sinuses are benign congenital malformations of the preauricular soft tissues first described by Van Heusinger in 1864. Preauricular pits or fissures are located near the front of the ear and mark the
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
9 Jan 18
You could also ask the doctor about it, if there’s any concerns next time they go for a physical check up.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
9 Jan 18
@shaggin Yes, I have never heard of it before. But you don't have to take them to the doctors :) Just if you are at the doctors whenever that may be in the future, you could ask about it.
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
9 Jan 18
That's definitely interesting.. and their doctors never mentioned them before?
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@shaggin (71666)
• United States
10 Jan 18
Nope. Doctors around here tend to not notice much. My daughter was born with an eye condition called nystagmus and it took like 4 months before someone said anything and it was actually a lady at the wic office who mentioned it then I went and asked our doctor who sent us to a specialist and she had am mri done.
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
10 Jan 18
@shaggin oh wow! That sucks. Hope doctors get better there.
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@averygirl72 (37726)
• Philippines
10 Jan 18
Interesting. I didn't know it exist. Hope it does not cause any issues
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@shaggin (71666)
• United States
10 Jan 18
It hasn't so far so I don't think they will ever have problems with it.
@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
10 Jan 18
I didn't know there was a name for this. Interesting!
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@shaggin (71666)
• United States
11 Jan 18
@Srbageldog I don't usually notice peoples ears so I haven't seen anyone with tags or pits. The tag looks more obvious then the very tiny pit.
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
11 Jan 18
@shaggin No, but I knew someone who had the Preauricular tags. I just thought they were skin tags or moles.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
13 Jan 18
That is very interesting, I've never seen it before and had no idea why its there...
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@shaggin (71666)
• United States
13 Jan 18
You can read more about it on the link I attached. My kids have never had a problem with theirs so I always just assumed it was kind of like a freckle how they are just there. Never realized children could have problems with theirs but am glad my kids don't.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
14 Jan 18
@shaggin I did look at the link, its so interesting but something I've never seen myself.I'm glad there are no problems with your kids having it too.
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@shaggin (71666)
• United States
10 Jan 18
I think most the time they don't mention things unless they are worried. New moms tend to get very nervous so best not to mention anything that may worry then unnecessarily. I am not worried about the pit at all just found it interesting to look up information on it.
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@shaggin (71666)
• United States
9 Jan 18
I’ve never heard of it either and can’t pronounce the name of it lol
@shaggin (71666)
• United States
11 Jan 18
I had went off my antidepressant over a year before but when I got pregnant all those hormones had me doing really badly and they had to put me back on Zoloft. It was considered safe at the time but is no longer allowed during pregnancy due to problems babies were born with.
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@YrNemo (20261)
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12 Jan 18
@shaggin scientists are a weird bunch. They keep telling you that they had done this research, and the result was like this and this. The next year, they would give you an opposite finding from newer research. 
(They change textbooks every year and make the students go buy newer editions, only to tell students that the edition of that year is wrong so please go get the older edition blah blah blah, after the students just spent a hundred dollars or more to get that latest edition as the uni stated and demanded!)
(They change textbooks every year and make the students go buy newer editions, only to tell students that the edition of that year is wrong so please go get the older edition blah blah blah, after the students just spent a hundred dollars or more to get that latest edition as the uni stated and demanded!)1 person likes this
@scarlet_woman (23465)
• United States
15 Jan 18
interesting.never seen one of those.
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@Tina30219 (81538)
• Onaway, Michigan
9 Jan 18
Wow. Glad that it is not causing no issues at this time and I hope it stays that way.
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@shaggin (71666)
• United States
10 Jan 18
I always just thought it was like a dimple kind of thing I never thought to look it up before.
@Tina30219 (81538)
• Onaway, Michigan
10 Jan 18
@shaggin Right some things we never do.
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@shaggin (71666)
• United States
10 Jan 18
My children have never had a problem with it at all so I doubt they have a more severe case where they would need an antibiotic when it swells up or surgery to fix it!
