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  Do you know that doctors in a pediatric emergency ward always carry an Otoscope to check for ear infections in crying babies? That is how common ear infections are in babies. The main cause of ear infection in babies Babies below six months love to sleep, keeping milk in their mouths. Milk has a protein that induces sleep and babies tend to sleep while they are consuming milk. In the mouth, we have many bacteria that can ferment the milk faster than in normal room conditions. This fermented milk and bacteria in the mouth can enter the middle ear through a Eustachian or auditory tube. These bacteria along with milk can enter the ear through auditory tubes and this is what causes ear infections in a baby . If this milk enters the nose from the nasopharynx, it causes rhinitis, i.e., cold.   Risk factors in infants below six months The eustachian tube is a tube that allows airflow from the nasopharynx to the middle ear. These eustachian tubes in babies below six months are p