Is otitis media serious

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I remember when my brother was a child, he had pus in his ears and was very wet. He went to a small clinic to take medicine, but it didn't work. Last year in the county people's Hospital, they said it was chronic otitis media, and now the situation is stable, so is otitis media serious? Do you know? Let's talk about the severity of otitis media.

Is otitis media serious

Harm one: it will bring obstacles to the patient's work. If you can't hear or hear the important speeches and important information in the meeting, it's easy to miss the opportunity and develop the business.

Harm two: long term treatment, will cause complications. Intracranial complications, extracranial complications, temporal complications, which have an impact on the brain, and even life-threatening.

Harm 3: all kinds of abscess, such as subperiosteal abscess after ear, subperiosteal abscess under temporal muscle, abscess of posterior wall of external auditory canal, etc. after abscess, soft mass can be felt locally, with redness, severe pain and high fever. If the treatment is not timely, the abscess will spread to the neck, causing pain when the neck is rotating. In severe cases, it will damage the neck blood vessels, leading to death.

matters needing attention

Here to remind you: try not to use sharp objects out of the ear, so as not to scratch the ear canal and cause infection. Don't blow your nose by pinching your nostrils tightly, because it can increase the pressure on the nose and throat, and make the nose and bacteria enter the middle ear through the eustachian tube. The nose can be aspirated backward and spit out from the mouth, or the handkerchief can be placed in the front nostril to gently blow out the nose, or one side of the front nostril can be gently pinched to gently blow out the opposite side of the open nasal cavity.