How to Diagnose Ear Infections & Symptoms
- 1). If you feel pain deep in your ear and/or there is fluid coming out of it, then you might have a middle ear infection called otitis media.
- 2). If you are experiencing swelling and redness in your outer ear and the surrounding skin, then your outer ear, ear canal and the skin surrounding your ear might be seriously infected.
- 3). If you are experiencing a headache-like pain with redness behind your ear or tenderness when you touch the bone behind your ear, then you might have an enlarged lymph node or mastoiditis, an infection of the temporal bone (bone behind your ear).
- 4). If your ear is swollen and it hurts or itches when you pull on your earlobe or ear, then you might have otitis externa (swimmer's ear), which is an infection of your ear canal.
- 5). If you feel or see a pimple in your ear canal, then you might have a small infection in your ear canal.
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