Symptoms and treatment of otitis media in children

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If the baby grasps the ear with his hand, accompanied by crying, shaking his head, irritability, parents should be alert whether the baby is suffering from otitis media. Otitis media is also one of the common diseases in children. It can not only damage hearing and deafness, but also affect health and even endanger life. So let's share how to treat children's otitis media?.

Symptoms and treatment of otitis media in children

First, the pus in the external auditory canal and the middle ear cavity should be cleaned before the treatment of acute suppurative otitis media. The correct method of ear drops is: take the baby's sitting or lying position, with the affected ear facing up, gently pull the auricle back and up, drop 3-4 drops of liquid medicine into the external auditory canal, and then gently press the tragus with your fingers several times to make the liquid medicine flow into the middle ear through the tympanic membrane perforation, and change the position after a few minutes. Pay attention to ear drops should be as close to the body temperature as possible to avoid vertigo. Commonly used drugs are: rifampicin eye drops, thalidomide ear drops, 0.25% chloramphenicol ear drops. For children with fever, we should actively choose anti fever drugs, such as ibuprofen, acetaminophen, etc.

Second: the middle ear is like a matchbox. It has six walls. The front wall is the eardrum, which separates the external auditory canal from the middle ear. There are three ossicles in the middle ear cavity, which are connected with the inner ear. Under normal circumstances, although the external auditory canal water bath, as long as there is no tympanic membrane lesions, water is not into the middle ear cavity, it is impossible to cause otitis media.

Third: originally, in the middle ear cavity, there is a thin tube leading to the nasopharynx, which is called eustachian tube in medicine. Because children's eustachian tube is relatively short, wide and straight, showing a horizontal position, and children's body resistance is weak, they are easy to suffer from upper respiratory tract infections such as cold, rhinitis, pharyngitis, etc., the secretion of nasopharynx increases, or because the baby spits milk, chokes and blows nose too hard, the bacteria are easy to enter the middle ear from the eustachian tube, causing suppurative otitis media. In addition, to children dig ears, accidentally damaged the external auditory canal mucosa or tympanic membrane, leading to infection, may also spread to the middle ear inflammation.

matters needing attention

1. When bathing and washing your baby's hair, try to avoid sewage flowing into your ears; 2. When feeding the baby, avoid too fast or the hole on the pacifier is too big, the baby has no time to swallow and cause choking cough, so that the milk will go up through the eustachian tube and cause middle ear infection; 3. When digging the baby's ear, the action should be gentle to avoid damaging the skin and mucous membrane in the ear and causing infection; 4. When the baby has a cold, we should pay special attention to whether his ears are abnormal, especially for children who have suffered from otitis media.