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Otitis media is inflammation of the middle ear, the cavity between the eardrum and the inner ear.
It occurs when an upper respiratory tract infection extends up the passage that connects the back of the nose to the middle ear. Symptoms include severe earache, a feeling of fullness in the ear, decreased hearing, fever and ringing or buzzing in the ear. In 1980, physicians wrote 12 million prescriptions for antimicrobial drugs to treat ear infections. By 1992, that number had nearly doubled to 23.6 million prescriptions. Culpepper and Froom assert that as use of antimicrobials increases, bacteria become more resistant.