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Discharging ear

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Otorrhoea is discharge from the ear.

Principal causes include:

  • otitis media, in which case the otorrhoea will often be blood-stained - profuse and mucoid at first, later becomes thick and yellow
  • otitis externa, in which case the discharge may be scanty

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