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An ear infection can be caused by bacteria or a virus. It happens when fluid builds up in the area behind your baby's eardrum and then becomes infected. Normally any fluid that enters this area leaves pretty quickly through the eustachian tube, which connects the middle ear to the back of the nose and throat.
If your child simply has an ear infection but no cold symptoms, he or she is not necessarily contagious. What is the difference between fluid in the ear and an ear infection? Acute otitis media (middle ear infection) means that the space behind the eardrum - the middle ear - is full of infected fluid (pus). If there is no fluid, there is no ear infection, no matter how red the eardrum appears. Sometimes, the fluid behind the ear is not infected, but instead is clean (sterile).