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.
With an ear infection, you may have ear pain, difficulty sleeping, clear or yellow mucus in your nose, a low-grade fever or ear discharge. Viruses cause many ear infections, and antibiotics have no effect on these. For bacterial ear infections, the culprit is usually a streptococcus bacterium.