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Ear infections in dogs:
• An ear infection is also known as otitis media.
• An ear infection is mainly of two types:
-Middle ear infection: it is the infection of the middle ear.
-Inner ear infection: it is the inflammation of the inner ear.
• Mostly inflammation of the ears is commonly caused by a bacterial infection. Symptoms mainly depend on how the severity or intensity of the infection is.
Symptoms may include:
-Pain when opening the mouth
-Not willing to chew
-Pawing the affected ear
-Leaning to the painful side of the affected ear
-Deafness
Additional symptoms may include:
-Vomiting
-Nausea
-Redness of the ear
-Discharge from the affected ear
Homeopathic remedies for ear infection are:
• Belladonna:
-An intense earache that comes and goes very suddenly, with heat and inflammation
-Pain accompanied by fever, a flushed red face, and skin is hot to touch.
-The right ear is most often affected.
• Hepar sulphuris:
-when an earache is very painful (with a bulging eardrum or pus formation).
-sensitive especially to cold and drafts
-may feel extremely vulnerable and touchy.
• Mercurius solubilis:
-it is helpful if an ear infection is with pus formation
-has swollen lymph nodes,
-offensive breath, a puffy tongue
-drooling of saliva during sleeping.
• Pulsatilla:
-indicated for ear infections with cold (Cold symptoms include nasal obstruction, yellowish or greenish mucus.)
-The ear may be hot and swollen
-Pain can be worse in the evening and at night
-severe itching, especially if infections are chronic.
-wanting to be held and comforted.
• Aconitum napellus:
-This remedy relieves earaches occurring after exposure to very cold weather.
• Magnesia phosphoricum:
-An earache ameliorates by warmth and pressure
