The weather is cold, and children and the elderly with poor immunity are particularly susceptible to colds. After a cold, when the child expresses ear pain, hard hearing, frequent touching of the ear and other abnormal behaviors, may have suffered from otitis media, Li County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine reminds parents and parents: must pay attention to it, seek medical attention immediately.
What is otitis media?
Otitis media is an inflammatory lesion that affects some or all of the structures of the middle ear, including the eustachian tubes, tympanic cavity, tympanic sinus, and mastoid air chambers.
According to **, it can be divided into two categories: purulent otitis media and non-purulent otitis media
Purulent otitis media: refers to purulent inflammation of the mucosa of the middle ear, mostly due to bacterial infection. Depending on the duration of the disease, the disease includes acute purulent otitis media and chronic purulent otitis media.
Non-purulent otitis media: refers to non-purulent inflammation of the mucosa of the middle ear, eustachian tube dysfunction, local infection of the middle ear, ** reaction, and barotrauma may cause non-purulent otitis media. According to the different **, it can be divided into secretory otitis media and barometric otitis media.
Specific symptoms of otitis media.
Non-purulent otitis media: Patients present with symptoms such as ear tightness, earache, tinnitus, ear swelling, or hearing loss.
Patients with purulent otitis media may also have earache, ear canal discharge, and systemic symptoms (which may include chills, fever, fatigue, vomiting, loss of appetite, diarrhea, etc.).
If you have any of these symptoms and they don't get relieved, you should see a doctor.
Prevention and treatment of otitis media.
Prophylaxis. In daily life, attention should be paid to keeping the external auditory canal dry and clean, enhancing self-immunity, avoiding upper respiratory tract infections, and actively cooperating after a cold**. Use the correct method of blowing your nose, blowing your nose should not be forced and pressed both nostrils at the same time, and should cross the nose to blow your nose unilaterally.
*。*Principle: control the infection and actively ** the primary disease.
The main method of acute purulent otitis media is antibiotics, which can be supplemented with local **.
In addition to antibiotics** and local**, some parts of chronic suppurative otitis media require surgery**.
Non-purulent otitis media: systemic antibiotics can be used to control infection, mucus stimulation, middle ear microwave**, tympanic membrane puncture if necessary, and timely tympanic membrane tube implantation surgery in some patients!
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