What are the symptoms that a 4 month old has an ear infection?

Question

Thanks everyone. I don't think he has an ear infection because he doesn't have a fever, isn't pulling on his ear. He's always been fussy, no more so now. I had just noticed that he seemed a bit bothered or annoyed by noise lately.

ps- he's sitting on my lap helping me type this :)

Answer 1

You ask an excellent question. It is easy to suspect a three-year-old child has an ear infection because she tells you so. However, it's much more difficult to figure out if your three month old has one.

Symptoms of ear infections in pre-verbal children have been studied quite a bit. The results are not too surprising. When parents of children who are known to have ear infections are asked to describe the symptoms their children were experiencing at the time, the most common answers are fever, fussiness, tugging at ears, recent cold symptoms (e.g. runny nose, cough, etc.), shaking of the head, and unwillingness to suck on a pacifier.

However, when physicians then used these symptoms to try to predict who had an ear infection and who didn't, they were right about 50 percent of the time. In other words, children who have ear infections may have the above symptoms, but not all children who have those symptoms have ear infections. The only way to diagnose an ear infection is to have your health care provider get a look in the ear.

No one particular symptom is specific for ear infections. My advice to you is to keep the above symptoms in mind, and then seek help from your physician when it seems these symptoms are numerous, severe or lasting longer than you might expect.

Answer 2

A baby will often pull on the ear that hurts and cry. Often they will have a fever and be very cranky. Sometimes the baby waits until they fall asleep and then wake up crying very hard. The ear pain is worse when they lay down(the pressure builds up behind the eardrum) Give the baby some Tylenol and take your pediatrician for a look and see. The doctors will often prescribe antibiotics and ear drops for the pain.

Answer 3

Unfortunately sometimes there are no symptoms. However, if he has a fever, if he is not sleeping like he was, if he pulls or scratches at his ears, these could be signs. For my son, when he didn't have an infection he would sleep through the night. When he did he would cry in his sleep every once in a while and he would scratch at his ears.

Answer 4

Common symptoms of an ear infection:
Cold symptoms, not wanting to lie down, ear pain or hearing loss, waking during the night (your 4 month old is not going to be doing this one), fussiness, and fever.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Fever, grabbing at their ear and their ear looking red or feeling warm to the touch.

Answer 7

Crying, fever and grabbing the ear.

Answer 8

Usually a fever, and crabiness. Sometimes fluid draining from the ear.

Answer 9

Sometimes fever, sometimes refusal of feedings, sometimes they keep sticking their fingers in their ears or pulling on them, most commonly - WAILING when you lay them down. (Puts pressure on their ears.) If your baby seems inconsolable, it's worth at least speaking to the doctor for peace of mind.

Answer 10

pulling or rubbing the ears, high fever, irritable, crying for "unknown reason)