Medically reviewed by Maria M. LoTempio, MD Key Takeaways You can help drain fluid from your ear by gently popping your ears by yawning or holding your nose while blowing. Applying a warm compress to ...

Dear Doctors: I recently experienced severe vertigo due to fluid in my inner ear from a sinus infection. It affected not only my balance, but also my blood pressure and anxiety. Are there any ...

Medically reviewed by Daniel More, MD Middle ear infections are common and occur when fluid builds up behind the eardrum.

Otitis media with effusion (OME) is a leading cause of conductive hearing loss, especially in children. The condition quietly builds as sterile fluid accumulates in the middle ear cavity, muffling ...

Chronic otitis media (chronic ear infection) occurs when fluid behind your eardrum becomes infected and does not go away with antibiotics. Unlike swimmer’s ear that affects the external ear canal, a ...

Otitis media is an inflammatory infection of the middle ear, commonly following upper respiratory infections, especially in children. It presents with ear pain, fever, hearing loss, and discharge.

You're going about your day tackling one to-do after the next, when suddenly a strange sound stops you in your tracks. There's something crackling inside of your ear. You give your ear a scratch, but ...

Early insertion of ear tubes in otherwise healthy infants and young children with persistent fluid in the middle ear does not improve developmental outcomes up to 9 to 11 years of age, according to ...

Babies and toddlers who need a tracheostomy -- a tube surgically inserted into their windpipe to help relieve breathing problems -- are at a high risk of accumulating fluid behind their eardrum when ...