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Offers resources on ear infections and ear pain, including otitis media, otitis externa, swimmer’s ear, airplane ear or barotrauma. Provides information on signs and symptoms, risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of ear infection and ear pain.
Doctors call it barotrauma or barotitis media but the common name for this uncomfortable condition is airplane ear. Your ears can hurt when you fly because of an imbalance in pressure between your middle ear and the cabin of the airplane.
Source: HealthyOntario.com
Earaches commonly occur when the eustachian tube becomes blocked. Blockage of the eustachian tube prevents fluid from draining out of the middle ear. Fluid in the middle ear provides a good place for an infection to start. Blockage also increases pressure behind the eardrum, which in turn causes pain.
Source: The College of Family Physicians of Canada
The middle ear is the small part of your ear just inside your eardrum. It gets infected when germs from a cold are trapped there.
Source: Government of British Columbia - Ministry of Health Services
Otitis media is a common infection of the middle ear. Most children have at least one ear infection by the age of three years. Many will have three or more. Otitis media can also affect adults, although much less frequently.
Source: HealthyOntario.com
Swimmer's ear or external otitis is an infection of your ear canal. Your ear canal is the tubular opening that carries sound waves to your eardrum. Bacteria or fungi present in the water can cause the infection.
Source: HealthyOntario.com
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