Symptoms of acute 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. Let's share the symptoms of children's acute otitis media.

Symptoms of acute 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.

The second judgment is that patients with otitis media will also have severe pain in the ear, which is often manifested as ear pain or tingling. And generally in sucking, coughing and swallowing saliva and things will be accompanied by pain feeling, smaller baby will appear irritable crying, shaking his head or with his hand to grasp his ears and so on, because eating will be painful, baby is generally not willing to drink milk.

The third basis for judging is that for patients with otitis media, the temperature will be higher than ordinary people. Parents should pay attention to the temperature of their children. Generally, the fever temperature is about 38 to 40 degrees. In addition, to observe the child's ears, to see if there will be outflow of white, yellow or liquid containing a trace of blood, if there is this symptom, it can be generally determined that the child has otitis media, to go to the hospital immediately.

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I hope parents can pay more attention to it and pay more attention to it if they find that their children have any problems, because if acute suppurative otitis media is not treated correctly in time, the infection will spread slowly, leading to mastoiditis, otogenic brain abscess, meningitis and other serious complications. In this way, the gain is not worth the loss.