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I have had ear infection for months now , had a wide variety of antibiotics and nothing is working. The ears are getting worse . Can you help please
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Hi sometimes antibiotics alone don't work. This could be due to antibiotics resistance or underlying bony infection which would require a surgery. Sometimes there could be Cholesteatoma where surgery is only treatment.
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