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Prevention Tips
- Vaccination with pneumococcal and influenza vaccine
- Teach your children to wash their hands frequently and thoroughly and not to share eating and drinking utensils
- Teach your children to use a cloth or a tissue while sneezing or coughing
- Try to keep your child home from child care or school when ill
- Stay in smoke-free environments
- Breastfeed your baby for 12 months or more if possible
- Avoid propping (support by placing against something solid or rigid) a bottle in your babys mouth while he or she is lying down
- Aspirin should not be given to children under 16 years of age
- Avoid exposure to air pollution
- Avoid letting water go into the ear
Watch Out
- Fever
- Nausea or vomiting
- Dizziness
- Difficulty in hearing and speaking
- Fluid or pus from ear
When to See Doctor
Consult your doctor if- Your child has fever combined with ear ache
- Symptoms last for more than a day
- Ear pain is severe
- Your child is sleepless or irritable after a cold or other upper respiratory infection
- You observe a discharge of fluid, pus or bloody discharge from the ear