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Pus like pale yellow discharge from ear
From few day I hav notice some pale yellow like smelly discharge when I use ear bud at the inner side of my ear no pain nothing but sometimes a little heavy of fillied it feels 6 year back I had my eardurm operated same year coz I had hole in it since then every thing was normal now my question is again ear drum can rupture or wat
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History suggests chronic ear infection , pls fix appointment with an ENT ASAP
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Looks like middle ear infection
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A course of medications with antibiotics analgesic and nasal decongestants
Health Tips
keep ear dry and clean
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Need to take proper history
Kindly consult
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Dr. Shradha Chandra
ENT/ Otorhinolaryngologist
9 yrs exp
Bareilly
May be its residual perforation
Please take-
Tab. Cepodem 200 mg 1 tab BD
Tab. Xerodol sp 1 tab BD
Tab. Telekast L 1 tab HS
Cap. Protera 1 tab od
Keep ear dry ..
Dont use ear bud
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Dr. Vaibhav B Hapalia
Ear-Nose-Throat (ENT) Specialist
4 yrs exp
Mumbai
Please note the quantity of ear discharge and whether it is associated with ear ache or so.From Your Complains it looks like you have the recurrence, In short ear drum may be ruptured again.
Next Steps
Consult your operating surgeon in person, and get further advise regarding same. You will be put on antibiotics and pain killers (if pain).Plus if the perforation is present, you maybe advised a surgery again.
Health Tips
Don't Panic, many a times, because of upper respiratory tract infections, and repeated infections or poor middle ear ventilation, Ear drum may retract/perforate.In such cases, you should go for revision surgery, after showing it to your operating surgeon.
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