Earache with fever in children What is the disease?

We often see some of infants and young children, in patients with acute
upper respiratory tract infection such as pharyngitis, rhinitis,
bronchitis process, often there will be high fever, earache and other
symptoms, this is how the case?

In fact, this is a common pediatric ear disease, or acute otitis media.
Acute otitis media was particularly prevalent in infants and young
children, because children's eustachian tube is shorter and the location
of the low, when breast-feeding in the lying and easy choking nausea,
caused by the discharge of invasive eustachian tube carrier. In addition,
children with low defense, so they are suffering from upper respiratory
tract infection and a number of rash fever, or children have anemia,
malnutrition, also easily lead to some pyogenic bacteria such as
pneumococcus, streptococcus and other invasive ear canal triggered acute
otitis media.
Acute otitis media caused when, in addition to fever, see, the more
obvious in children with earache, small infants may not be expressed pain,
but crying will be disturbed, and ear symptoms such as catch, to be
discharging perforation of tympanic membrane, the temperature will drop ,
earache will be eased.
Not a result of this disease in time, may be complicated by acute
mastoiditis, and even acute purulent meningitis, so see if pediatric
clinical develop fever, earache, it should be a timely diagnosis, timely
treatment, so as not to delay the disease, causing serious complications ,
or chronic persistent.
In addition, we should also remind that the baby suffering from the
disease, in addition to fever, earache and other symptoms, but also often
accompanied by diarrhea, vomiting, severe dehydration and even, at this
time due to obvious symptoms of the digestive system to the neglect of ear
symptoms. Therefore, the clinical case of severe infant diarrhea who do
not forget to check tympanic membrane, tympanic membrane attention to
whether or not congestion, purulent ear discharge any.