Glue ear after a cold or earache with smelly discharge from ear. Earache with feeling of pressure from catarrh pressing on eardrum, hearing loss and noises in ear. The external ear is red. There may be a thick yellow discharge. Symptoms are worse for heat and better for fresh air.
Child is thirstless, pathetic, clingy, wants to be carried and cuddled.
Weeps with the pains and needs lots of reassurance. Fever with sweating and shivering. All symptoms are worse for heat. Thirsty, restless, sluggish and irritable.