How to diagnose otitis media

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At 9:30 this evening, my 4-year-old daughter said that she had an earache. She took her to the town hospital and said that it was otitis media. It was a bit hazy. After taking the medicine for 2 days, she obviously felt better. Let me share with you the experience of how to diagnose otitis media.

How to diagnose otitis media

Examination 1: pull out the bottle stopper test: the patient's ears were tested respectively. After pressing the patient's tragus tightly, the patient put it quickly, and the patient felt that the ear had a similar sound when pulling out the bottle stopper.

Examination 2: bacteriological examination. Bacterial culture and drug sensitivity test of middle ear secretion can identify the types of pathogenic bacteria and help to select sensitive antibiotics.

Examination 3: tympanosclerosis and adhesive otitis media are permanent, inactive and irreversible lesions caused by prolonged otitis media. Among them, those with organized adhesions are called adhesive otitis media, while those with hyaline degeneration, calcification and even ossification are called tympanosclerosis.

matters needing attention

On this, I would like to remind you: swimming. When swimming, water will enter the ear from the external auditory canal, but if there is no hole in the tympanic membrane, water will not enter the middle ear from the external ear. However, if there are many people in the swimming pool and the cleaning and sanitation are not in place, bacteria or disinfectants in the water will enter the body through the nose and mouth of the child, causing a cold and otitis media. Swimming ear water, remember to take a cotton swab dipped in a little ear canal cleaning liquid around the ear canal gently wipe, effectively kill bacteria in the ear canal, prevent otitis media caused by bacterial infection.