For example, the buzzing sound of a tick burrowing into your eardrum. The boy had also reported hearing buzzing noises in his ear a few days earlier, but didn't have any ear pain or trouble hearing. The cause of the boy's troubles were made immediately clear, however, when doctors looked inside his ear and spotted a tick latched onto his eardrum (also known as the tympanic membrane). The buzzing sound that the boy heard a few days before going to the doctor was likely the sound of the tick crawling through his ear canal. After the tick was removed, the boy received antibiotic ear drops to prevent an infection from developing.

Source: Fox News May 02, 2019 17:49 UTC