Pain below the ear bone with half of the headache may be associated with conditions such as acute mastoiditis, herpes zoster in the ear, and boils on the skin behind the ear. General treatment, medication and surgery should be chosen according to the cause and characteristics of the disease.
1. Acute mastoiditis: this disease is mostly a complication of acute suppurative otitis media, and there may be pain with half headache at the posterior margin below the ossicles on the affected side. Treatment requires systemic and local early application of large doses of sensitive antimicrobial drugs, and attention to improve local drainage, such as drug therapy to control the infection is not effective, or the emergence of suspected complications, mastoidectomy should be performed.
2. Ear herpes zoster: varicella zoster virus infection in the ear when the onset, often in the distribution area of the facial nerve pain, can be manifested as the above symptoms. Antiviral drugs such as acyclovir can be applied systemically. Local skin can be coated with antibiotic ointment, such as roxithromycin ointment.
3. Boils on the skin behind the ear: sebaceous glands or hair follicles in the skin behind the ear cause suppurative inflammation due to bacterial infection, which stimulates the pain of the cutaneous nerve below the ear bone and involves half of the headache on the affected side. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen are given for analgesia when the pain is severe; systemic application of penicillin or macrolide antibiotics for anti-infective treatment, and antibiotics such as polymyxin B ointment can also be applied externally.
When you feel the pain below the ear bone with half of the headache, you can actively seek medical treatment, systematic examination and diagnosis, follow the doctor’s instructions standardized treatment.