Laceration repair is the act of cleaning, preparing, and closing the wound. Minor lacerations (shallow, small, not bleeding, and clean) may not require medical attention. Antibiotic ointment and a bandage may be all that is needed. However, most lacerations do require repair.
Symptoms of ear infections usually include earaches or throbbing pain, sometimes a fever, and signs of inflammation near the ears like redness or fluid leaking out. Although antibiotics are assumed to be the treatment of choice for ear infections, you might want to reconsider this approach.
The main symptoms of an outer ear infection are severe pain, itching, or redness in the ear and tenderness in the earlobes. The tissue in front of and below the ear may become swollen and tender. There's often a lot of earwax and skin debris in the ear canal.