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What exactly causes ear infections to form?
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Eustachian Tube: Ear infections often form as a result of fluid from a cold being backed up in to the middle ear and becoming infected from germs it carries with it form the oral cavity (mouth). Other times it can be seeded from bacteria in the blood settling there...
Answered 1/5/2014
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