Symptoms of otitis media with cholesteatoma

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Cholesteatoma otitis media is one of the chronic suppurative otitis media. Besides the characteristics of chronic suppurative otitis media (ear pus and hearing loss), it also has some other characteristics. Let's share our experience on the symptoms of cholesteatoma otitis media.

Symptoms of otitis media with cholesteatoma

First: cholesteatoma otitis media not only purulent, but also more than the general chronic suppurative otitis media pus, and the outflow of pus has a special odor.

Second: the common chronic suppurative otitis media patients without cholesteatoma, the odor will disappear or weaken after washing and treatment, but the odor of cholesteatoma patients will not be eliminated, and will not weaken.

Third: wipe pus with cotton swab, often find white solid, this is cholesteatoma epithelium.

matters needing attention

Hearing loss may be the only chief complaint of cholesteatoma without infection. In the early stage, most of them were conductive deafness with varying degrees. The upper tympanic cavity cholesteatoma, hearing can be basically normal. Even if the part of the ossicle is damaged, because cholesteatoma can be used as a sound bridge between the ossicles, the hearing loss may not be very serious. When the lesion involved the cochlea, the deafness was mixed. Severe cases may be total deafness.