healthydailymail.com "Health News" A middle ear infection (otitis media) is an infection that causes inflammation of the middle ear.
The middle ear is the space behind your eardrum. It contains three tiny bones that move when sounds reach them. These transmit sound waves through your middle ear to your inner ear. Usually, your middle ear is filled with air, but if you have inflammation, the space becomes filled with mucus.
The Eustachian tube connects your middle ear with your throat and opens when you swallow. This allows air to pass up and down the tube from your throat to the middle ear and in the opposite direction. This equalises the air pressure inside your ear to the air pressure outside your ear. When it’s inflamed, the Eustachian tube doesn’t open properly and so mucus stays in the middle ear.
Middle ear infections are most common in children. Adults are affected too, but three out of four people diagnosed are children under the age of 10.
An acute middle ear infection comes on suddenly and typically clears up in about four days. It’s called an acute infection because it comes on suddenly, not because it’s severe.
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