Hi mayank67,

First, you don't have to worry. Everything is going to be alright.

Well..., regarding your mum's ear issue, just before you think it happened, had she tried to clean her ear with a pointed object? Had she been exposed to a very loud noise? and I wonder what she feels as a result of this. Does she feel there is a considerable loss of hearing? Do you feel she's started to hear you less precisely?

Diagnosis of Eardrum hole or scratch is very easily done. I think I have to go with the specialist's diagnosis of a scratch. Normally, such scratches, being milder than holes, heal on their own in a few weeks or months. There is also a way of treatment by a Paper Patch where it may accelerate healing. But that procedure is done especially to holes.

As to the ulcerative colitis your mum has got, it has nothing to do with any kind of ear infection.

Hope this helps