Babies frequently place the hands near the seat of pain; thus in slight inflammation of the mouth they tend to put the hand in the mouth; in earache to move it to the ear; and in headache to raise it to the head.
We recently saw a little girl who happened to have an earache and was about to be operated on for ear trouble, when examination of the blood revealed the fact that she was suffering from malaria.
Earache is always serious, and since it is usually indicative of trouble which, if left untreated, may cause deafness, it demands thorough treatment from skilled hands.
Earache must always be thought of as a possible cause when the cry of pain accompanies a cold in the head, and if medical aid is secured early, the abscess may be aborted and the deafness of later years entirely avoided.
This is why one so often has earache after an attack of the grip or after a bad cold.
Went again to bed; got up at nine, felt a little earache and not much appetite for breakfast, occasioned by disappointment at the delay.
History of much earache in childhood; left ear discharges, but the discharge does not run out.
If you have an earache that continues for any length of time, take no chances, but consult a physician.
The moment a child develops fever in the course of an earache the ear should be examined and opened at once, if found necessary.
When a child complains of earache its ear should be examined.
In nearly every case of earache it is necessary to treat the throat, as this is, as a rule, the seat of the trouble.
When the earache does not respond to the above methods the ear should be closely watched and examined at intervals so that it may be opened at the right moment.
The patient with severe earache should go to bed and take a cathartic to move the bowels.
The grippe has been the most fruitful cause of middle-ear inflammation and earache in recent years.
But these are not the only ailments to which the mouth-breather is liable, for earache and deafness naturally follow the catarrh, owing to obstruction of the Eustachian tubes (see Earache, p.
Although earache or middle-ear inflammation is common, its dangers are not fully appreciated, since the various complications are likely to arise, and the result is not rarely serious.
Earache and deafness are most often due to a cold in the throat and a stoppage of this tube.
About five months before, their family physician had said of the child's earache, "The same inflammation of the nasal passages that causes earache causes adenoids; you must be on the lookout.
Country earache is largely due to adenoids or to inflammation that quickly leads to adenoids.
The general belief exists that earache is something which is quite harmless and entirely different from a genuine inflammation of the ear.
If a discharge appears, the earache was the result of an inflammation in the ear.
The warm milk from a cow will cure earache and has also been known to cure deafness.
Buck relates an instructive example: The age of the patient was three years, and the earache had been complained of only about twenty-four hours.
One old enough to speak and in proper mental condition makes known the earache as soon as it occurs.
And when it had done cracking his earache had gone away.
It wasn't reasonable to suppose that Nicky had earache when he could smile like that.
He never did know the precise degree of pain that distinguished the beginning of a genuine earache from that of a sham one, and he felt that to palm off a sham earache on his mother for a real one, was somehow a sneaky thing to do.
For instance, that Nicky should really have chosen the day of the party for an earache, the worst earachehe had ever had.
At that moment Nicky's earache jabbed upwards at his eyelids and cut them, and shook tears out of them.
If anybody have toothache or earache he take a brand new nail what ain't never work befo' and work dat round you tooth or ear.
And, as for Bert, he hadn't been near Snowball for two whole days; he had been on the sofa all that time with earache and toothache.
Got an awful sore throat, and earache and toothache.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "earache" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
