Initial symptoms of otitis media

Update Date: 2021-06-13 Source: Network

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Children five and a half years old, last Thursday, sudden acute otitis media, to see, opened a drip, and two boxes of cephalosporin particles, after eating said no pain, stop drug two days, another ear ache, after treatment has improved, so the initial symptoms of otitis media? Now let's take a look at it!

Initial symptoms of otitis media

Symptom 1: otitis media can be large or small, at the beginning will feel hearing loss, may be two days later feel earache, runny nose, sneezing, etc., if you do not pay attention to timely treatment, no good control of otitis media will become otitis media mastitis, serious and then develop into encephalitis, the most serious consequences may be fatal.

Symptom 2: accompanying symptoms: before tympanic perforation, patients will have some systemic symptoms, such as fever, chills, fatigue, loss of appetite, headache, etc. Children's symptoms are more obvious, accompanied by vomiting, diarrhea and convulsions. After perforation, these symptoms will be significantly reduced.

Symptom 3: before tympanic membrane perforation, the symptoms of fever, chills and fatigue are obvious. Children are often accompanied with vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms of acute gastroenteritis. The pain can radiate to the ipsilateral frontal, temporal, teeth and so on.

matters needing attention

It is suggested that we should pay attention to: the patients with acute suppurative otitis media without tympanic membrane perforation are treated with antibiotics, the patients with severe ear pain are treated with phenol glycerin ear drops, and the patients with acute rhinitis are treated with furosemide nasal drops; The patients with tympanic membrane perforation can't use phenol glycerin ear drops. Hydrogen peroxide should be used to clean the external auditory canal and middle ear. After cleaning, antibiotic ear drops should be used to drop the ear. Combined with systemic antibiotic treatment, it is generally not difficult to cure, and the perforated tympanic membrane can also be healed.