Attic Ear Infection

In addition to ear pain symptoms include.

Attic ear infection.

This infection often results from another illness cold flu or allergy that causes congestion and swelling of the nasal passages throat and eustachian tubes. Sometimes after an operation on your ear a cold or an allergy your eustachian tube doesn t work normally. If these are damaged permanent deafness. Role of eustachian tubes.

This instrument enables the doctor to look in the ear and judge whether there is fluid behind the eardrum. The mastoid bone is. Therefore possible complications that may develop over time include. You get an ear infection or injury.

Damage to the mastoid bone. This is the thick bony lump you can feel behind the ear. Other potential complications include. Chronic infection of the ear swelling of the inner ear paralysis of the facial muscles meningitis which is a life threatening brain infection brain abscesses or collections of pus in the brain.

A condition diagnosed as an inner ear infection may actually be a case of inflammation and not an actual infection. An instrument called a pneumatic otoscope is often the only specialized tool a doctor needs to diagnose an ear infection. With the pneumatic otoscope the doctor gently puffs air against the eardrum.