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Other conditions can also cause tinnitus, such as otosclerosis where the bones in the middle ear become stiff, a build-up of ear wax, middle-ear infections, a head injury and a perforated ear drum.
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Current practice guidelines for treating kids' mild middle-ear infections -- or acute otitis media -- call for watchful waiting, to be followed by antibiotics only if symptoms worsen or don't cease.
Studies show that for kids' ear infections, antibiotics work better than waiting Jennifer LaRue Huget 2011
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The Eustachian tube is a part of the middle ear and runs from the front wall of the middle-ear space down to the back of the throat.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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The Eustachian tube is a part of the middle ear and runs from the front wall of the middle-ear space down to the back of the throat.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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The middle-ear bones, through a lever system, amplify the incoming sound pressure by thirty decibels.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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The Eustachian tube is a part of the middle ear and runs from the front wall of the middle-ear space down to the back of the throat.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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The Eustachian tube is a part of the middle ear and runs from the front wall of the middle-ear space down to the back of the throat.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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The middle-ear bones, through a lever system, amplify the incoming sound pressure by thirty decibels.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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The middle-ear bones, through a lever system, amplify the incoming sound pressure by thirty decibels.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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The middle-ear bones, through a lever system, amplify the incoming sound pressure by thirty decibels.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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