The two then explained how Jinger can be more "crunchy" when it comes to modern medicine
Jinger Duggar Vuolo and Jeremy Vuolo's daughter experienced a scary moment earlier this week.
On an episode of their podcast, The Jinger and Jeremy Podcast, the two spoke about how their 7-year-old daughter Felicity Nicole had to go to the emergency room after complaining of "excruciating" pain in her ear.
"At the end of the wedding, Felicity had been on the dance floor and she was dancing so hard," Jinger said of a wedding they'd hosted at their house. "She comes inside and is in excruciating pain. And mind you, this is our social butterfly."
"Like if people around, she begs us to stay awake. She's like, 'Do I have to go to bed? I know I have to get up early, but I just wanna stay awake because I love our friends,' " Jinger continued.
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The mom of three said that her daughter came inside and said she wanted to go to bed at 8:30. When Jinger asked her what's wrong, Felicity said her ear was hurting and she needed to lay down.
"So when she goes to lay down, she can't lay down because it's hurting so bad. And she was in so much pain," Jinger recalled. "So I was like, okay, this is time for pain meds. So I had a bottle of kids' chewable ibuprofen. So I gave her two tablets, which is her dose. And she took that, and I waited. "
Jeremy chimed in and said that even giving her daughter pain meds was "a lot" for Jinger, who admitted she's "anti-medicine." He added that it's due to Jinger's upbringing and said she usually will wait until the situation is more dire.
"So anyway, I knew when you told me that you had given her two ibuprofen, because I was at an event, I was like, 'Oh, this is serious if Jinger's giving her medicine right away,' " Jeremy said.
"Oh yeah, well, I gave her medicine. She's in pain. She tells me, 'Give me the whole bottle!' And I was like, 'She hates [medicine],' " said Jinger as her husband agreed with her.
When the medicine didn't make her daughter feel better, Jinger went out to the wedding to see if there was a doctor there who could look at Felicity.
"But they were like, 'No, we don't have anybody here now,' " said Jinger. "So all the people at the wedding told me, 'I think you should take her to the ER because she may have burst...her eardrum may have burst or something, whatever.' It burst. Is that right? I don't know."
Jinger looked up her daughter's symptoms on ChatGPT, which told her to take Felicity to the emergency room right away.
"The pain did not go away for an hour. And so she was sitting up, and then she'd like lay down in pain," Jinger said of Felicity. She'd say, 'I just need this to go away. This is the worst pain I've ever had.'"
When Jeremy got back from the event he was at, they took Felicity to the hospital. By the time she got there, Felicity said her eardrum had popped.
"She was feeling better," Jeremy said. "Her eyes were bloodshot from crying, but she wasn't like in active pain. I take her in, and as we're in line getting checked in for the ER, she said, 'Dad, my ear popped and it feels better.' And then she tells me, 'But we should still get it checked out.'"
However, when the doctors wanted to give Felicity antibiotics for her ear infection, Jinger wasn't sure she wanted her to have them.
"They wanted to give it to her right away. And then I was thinking about it and I was like, 'Ah, I don't want her to have an antibiotic because those can really just mess up your gut,' " Jinger said.
"Well, they just clear out the good and the bad," Jeremy replied. "Yes. All the bad bacteria, all the good bacteria, it's gone," Jinger said.
Jinger said that ahead of flu season, she wasn't crazy about getting her daughter's "good bacteria" cleared out, so she told the doctors to only give her daughter antibiotics if it's absolutely necessary. They decided not to give their daughter antibiotics and waited a few days to see how she reacted.
"She did not complain of pain at all for the next like three days. She hasn't had any pain," said Jinger. "So I texted Audrey Roloff, who is very crunchy."
Audrey told Jinger to order these ear drops from Amazon, so she ordered them the next day and said they seem to be working.