Best Doctors for Mastoiditis Treatment in Ab Road, Indore

Mastoiditis refers to a bacterial infection that starts in the middle ear and extends to the largest bone behind the ear, known as the temporal bone. Acute mastoiditis lasts for a short period as an ear infection, and chronic mastoiditis lasts for a long time. The presenting complaints of mastoiditis are throbbing ear pain for long time, swollen skin or redness behind the affected ear, the doughy or soft-feeling bone behind the ear, ear drainage that contains pus, worsening hearing loss, headache, fever, vertigo, confusion, and double vision. The potential complications of mastoiditis are facial paralysis, partial or complete hearing loss, inner ear infection (labyrinthitis), meningitis, encephalitis, and sepsis. Mastoiditis can be prevented by vaccinating the child at a young age, limiting the use of pacifiers, quitting smoking, controlling allergies and preventing cold.