Common symptoms often include itchiness, pain and if a bite has occurred it can cause an infection.
Additional symptoms are:
A patient presented to Ear Hygiene Clinic with an itchy, infected and painful ear following an insect bite in the ear canal. It was suspected to be from a sandfly.
When asked about the events leading up to his visit, he explained that he had been out in his garden the week before his visit when the insect flew into his ear. He experienced increasing itchiness, followed by pain. His ear also started excreting a lot of dark coloured discharge.
He went to the doctor, but as the doctor was unable to see inside his ear canal due to the discharge, he was referred to Ear Hygiene Clinic for a closer examination of his ear and micro-suction to clear the discharge. Once I had suctioned out the discharge and debris blocking the canal, it revealed not only an insect bite present inside his ear but also a perforation (hole in the eardrum). This perforation was likely caused by the infection from the sandfly bite.
The doctor prescribed ear drops to assist in the treatment of the infection once the ear was cleared from the discharge. The gentleman will return to Ear Hygiene Clinic when his ear requires further micro-suction for cleaning out any more debris from the infection.
