What Causes Swallowing Difficulty And Earache When Previously Diagnosed With Ear Infection?

Brief Answer:
excess wax depositions in ear canal or otitis media.

Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Welcome to health care magic,

I have read your query and understand the concern,

It might be because of excess wax depositions in ear canal or otitis media (middle ear infection) but it will require complete ear examination by otoscope.

Ear infection could be mostly due to bacterial infection (which are usually painful) or it can also be due to viral infection or due to allergy or sinus infection which also need to be ruled out.

The best way to treat painful ear infection is the use of oral antibiotics with oral pain killers for some days like 4 to 5 days.

Without use of antibiotics, it would be difficult to treat ear infection especially in case of bacterial ear infection.

So,in my advise you should see an ENT doctor who can examine you and can come to a certain conclusion to start the appropriate treatment.

Meanwhile,you may continue to take panadol 1000mg two times daily.

You can also take combination of pain killers (like paracetamol 500mg with diclofenac 100 mg) or

If there is fluid or pus collection inside ear then serratiopeptidse can be added with pain killers for symptomatic relief.

You can ask your doctor who will know about it.

Hope this will help you.

Regards,

Dr.Sandip kabra

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Brief Answer:
Do not take antibiotic without doctor's advise.

Detailed Answer:
Hello,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I will not advise you to take antibiotics straight way but you should see a doctor and get examined your ear first before taking it.

Also you may wait for a couple of days if the pain is not so severe or troublesome but it is very unlikely that it may subside by its own.

A doctor will examine your ear canal by the use of otoscope and will tell you about the infection (if there) and further course of treatment.

Regards,

Dr.Sandip Kabra

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Brief Answer:
Repeated cold is the commenst reason.

Detailed Answer:
Hi,

Yes,you may wait for a couple of days and see if it gets better or not.

Meanwhile you can take panadol (paracetamol) for pain relief which is much better option than nureofen (ibuprofen) especially if you have GERD problem.

The commonest causes of repeated infection is cold and other reasons like throat infection or repeated sinus infection.

You can use cotton ear plugs while going outside and thus should avoid further exposure of ear canal to external environment which will be helpful.

If possible, better to cover mouth up to ear with the help of handkerchief or mask while riding two wheeler to avoid dust exposure.

You should use wax remover drops if there is excess wax depositions in the ear canal because excess wax makes ear more susceptible to catch infection easily.

Do not use any pointed objects (like key or safety pin or even ear budds) to scrape ear inside the ear canal in the interest of cleaning,however doing so may induce infection.

Hope this helps and let me know if I can help you further.

Regards,

Dr.Sandip

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