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Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, pediatrician DR. PAUL Roumeliotis is founder and former Director of the Montreal Children's Hospital Pediatric Consultation and Asthma Centers; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and former Director of Multi-Format Health Communications, Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada; and a father of two children.

DEAR DR.PAUL: My son keeps complaining that his ears hurt and that he hears loudly from time to time. His doctor says he has a retracted ear drum. What is this?

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Hand foot and mouth disease is an infection caused by a virus during the summertime. The infection is caused by the Coxsaackie virus and usually goes away on its own.

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