What symptom does otitis media have?

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Middle ear inflammation is otitis media, is due to bacterial infection in the middle ear, so the medical full name is "acute suppurative otitis media". It is a common cause of children's earache. Otitis media, also known as the "ear base", launched the disease, so that the brain swelling pain, and sometimes from the ear outflow of pus. Although it is not a serious illness, it brings endless pain. What symptom does otitis media have? Let's talk about it.

What symptom does otitis media have?

Systemic symptoms: varying in severity. May have chills, fever, fatigue, loss of appetite. Children have severe systemic symptoms, often accompanied by vomiting, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms. Once the tympanic membrane is perforated, the body temperature will gradually drop and the systemic symptoms will be relieved.

Ear pain: deep ear pain, gradually aggravated. If pulsatile throbbing pain or tingling, it can radiate to the ipsilateral head or teeth. When swallowing and coughing, the earache will aggravate. If the earache is severe, it can't sleep at night and is restless. After tympanic membrane perforation and purulence, the earache was reduced.

Ear pus: is the main symptom of the disease. It can be mucus, mucopurulent or purulent. Non dangerous purulent is thin and odorless. Although the dangerous type of purulent is not much, but thicker, mostly pure purulent, and accompanied by odor. Hearing loss and tinnitus: begin to feel stuffy, then hearing gradually decreased, accompanied by tinnitus. Deafness can be ignored in patients with severe earache. Some patients may be accompanied by vertigo, but the deafness will be reduced after perforation.

matters needing attention

General drug therapy is mainly through antibacterial, purulent, detumescence to achieve the purpose of reducing perforation, but simple drug treatment is difficult to achieve the healing of perforation, and is difficult to cure otitis media, it is easy to relapse.