Ear infection symptoms usually involve discomfort inside the ear or ear canal or on the skin of the ear. Someone with an ear infection may also have a fever or feel dizzy.

Symptoms of an ear infection include:

• Ear pain.
• Swelling, heat, or tenderness around or behind the ear.
• Redness of the ear, ear canal, or skin around or behind the ear.
• Itching and a feeling of fullness in the ear.
• Drainage from the ear that does not look like earwax. The drainage may have bad smell.
• Fever.
• Severe dizziness (vertigo).
• New hearing loss.