What are the symptoms of otitis media?

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Otitis media is an inflammatory disease involving all or part of the middle ear (including eustachian tube, tympanic chamber, tympanic sinus and mastoid air chamber). It can be divided into non suppurative and suppurative. Non suppurative otitis media include secretory otitis media and barotrauma otitis media. Suppurative otitis media can be divided into acute and chronic. Specific inflammation is rare, such as tuberculous otitis media. What are the symptoms of otitis media? Now let me talk about it

What are the symptoms of otitis media?

Acute suppurative otitis media is an inflammation of the middle ear caused by suppurative bacterial infection. Children's systemic symptoms are more obvious than adults, such as fever and vomiting. Serious complications include intracranial complications, such as meningitis, brain abscess, etc. Other complications included labyrinthitis and facial paralysis.

Chronic suppurative otitis media refers to the chronic suppurative inflammation of middle ear mucosa, periosteum or bone. 1. The severity of systemic symptoms is different. Can have fear of cold, 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. 2. 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 aggravates. If the earache is severe, the patient can't sleep at night and is restless. After tympanic membrane perforation and purulence, the earache was reduced. 3. Ear abscess is the main symptom of this disease, which can be mucus, mucus or pure pus. 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. 4. Hearing loss and tinnitus began 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 is reduced after perforation. 5. The degree of deafness is different. It is easy to be ignored because of the single ear. It is generally conductive deafness.

Non suppurative otitis media, secretory otitis media. 1. Hearing loss acute secretory otitis media can appear hearing loss after catching a cold, flying down or diving, and can have the phenomenon of "self sound enhancement". The severity of deafness often fluctuates in patients with chronic secretory otitis media. When the tragus is compressed or the head position is changed, the hearing can be improved. When the middle ear effusion is sticky, the hearing will not change because of the change of the head position. Most children have no complaints of hearing loss, such as ignoring their parents' calls, inattention, or demanding too much volume when watching TV. 2. Otodynia acute secretory otitis media may have slight otodynia, chronic secretory otitis media may have otodynia in secondary infection. 3. Sense of tightness or occlusion in the ear. 4. Tinnitus is generally not serious and can be intermittent. When the head moves, yawns or blows the nose, you can hear the sound of water passing through the air. A small number of patients with secretory otitis media can also appear ear water, but the duration is very short, only a few hours or a day.

matters needing attention

1. Take medicine and drop medicine on time according to the doctor's instructions. We should also pay attention to maintaining sufficient rest and sleep time, which is conducive to the absorption and volatilization of drugs, so that the body can better absorb them. In this way, the disease will be better soon, and the conclusion is to ensure sufficient rest time. 2. Usually, we should actively prevent colds. Once a cold blows its nose hard, there will be certain pressure on the eardrum, which is not conducive to the recovery of the eardrum. If it is really a cold that needs to blow its nose, we should pay attention not to use force and press two nostrils at the same time. The correct way is to press one side of the nose, which will not exert so much pressure on the eardrum. 3. It's better not to do swimming. Even if you go swimming, you should stick the water out gently with cotton swab after swimming, otherwise the water accumulated in the ear will make the ear continue to be inflamed and aggravate the disease.