My mother is 66 years old. For the past week, clear water like discharge is coming from her left ear. The doc diagnosed a ruptured eardrum n mucus in-ear. Prescribed antibiotics for 10 days. She is on antibiotic switch cv twice a day. But the problem with her ear persists and now the discharge is mildly brown coloured. I am really worried.

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