Question: Hello Doctor, my son is 16 months old now. When he was 11 month old he had cold and eventually his pedeatrician told that he has developed redness in the ears which is not ear infection but can develop into one. That time we did not treat him for his ears, since his pd told it is not necessary unless he develops fever or ear pain. Later he developed a mild fever which cured on its own in a 24 hour period. So I did not take him to doctor again. For last one month he had been tugging his ears but does not seem to be in pain or has fever or other symptoms. This ear tugging started after he had a week of cold. Now we went to his pd for chicken pox vaccination, that time he checked his ears and said there is slight redness in the ear but nothing to worry unless he develops fever. After vaccination, he has developed low grade fever but still very active. My question is red color in the ear, is a sign of an infection?, If he recovers himself from the fever, can I leave this untreated? I am worried bcoz I read a lot about untreated ear infections causing serious effects like meningitis, infection of skull etc.. He has received pneumoccocal vaccines and also never bottle fed for first 6 months.