Mastoiditis
What are the signs and symptoms of the disease?
Signs of mastoiditis may include:
fever
pain behind the ear
infected drainage coming through a hole in the eardrum
a red and swollen lining of the middle ear
some degree of hearing impairment
Other signs are usually only seen with acute mastoiditis. These may include:
swelling and redness of the skin behind the ear
significant swelling behind the ear that causes the ear to be pushed forward
a soft, compressible feeling to the bone behind the ear. This means that there is an abscess, or pocket of pus, under the skin.
Chronic mastoiditis does not produce changes over the bone behind the ear. Most of the time, a person with chronic mastoiditis has no symptoms other than occasional pain. When the condition flares up, pus can drain from the ear canal.
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