How can you tell if a baby has otitis media?

Symptoms vary slightly depending on different types of otitis media. Typical symptoms of suppurative otitis media include earache, hearing loss, discharge of water in the ear canal, pus, and even bleeding. Secretory otitis media is mostly manifested as ear pain, ear tightness, ear blockage, hearing loss or tinnitus.

In addition to the above typical symptoms, it can also be accompanied by fever, headache and other systemic symptoms. Symptoms: 1. Earache is more common in acute purulent otitis media, and the pain is more obvious when the tympanic membrane is hyperemia, and if it is accompanied by purulent discharge in the middle ear, it can be manifested as severe pain.

Some patients will experience a feeling of ear congestion. 2. Patients with suppurative otitis media with flowing water or purulent ear canal, when the eardrum is perforated, watery, bloody or purulent discharge will flow out of the ear canal. Ear canal discharge can be persistent or intermittent, with the former being more common in middle ear cholesteatomas, especially when the ear canal discharge is like tofu residue with a foul odor, and the latter is more common in chronic simple otitis media.

3. Most patients with hearing loss will be accompanied by varying degrees of hearing loss, especially patients with middle ear cholesteatoma, because the ossicular chain is destroyed by cholesteatoma, the hearing loss is more serious. 4. Some patients with tinnitus will be accompanied by low-key or high-profile tinnitus. In patients with secretory otitis media, when the nose is pinched and the air is puffed, the "sound of air passing through the water" in the ear will be heard.

Note: Some patients may have symptoms such as fever, vomiting, and diarrhea.

First of all, check whether there is any red and swollen part of the baby's ear, if there is, most cases are otitis media, and in the later stage, there will be pus flowing out of the ear.

Otitis media is a common disease, especially in children, especially in some infants and young children, because they cannot accurately describe the symptoms and judge whether otitis media occurs, they are often ignored. In daily life, otitis media in infants is judged as follows:

1. If the baby has otitis media, it may be accompanied by high fever, shaking the head, scratching the ears and crying. If there is also an upper respiratory tract infection, symptoms such as runny nose, nasal congestion, and cough may occur. When the ear is uncomfortable, the ear may be scratched, and pus on the affected ear can be seen, which is the most common manifestation of purulent otitis media in young children.

Young children cannot describe symptoms such as earache or hearing loss in detail, but the guardian can observe purulent discharge from the external auditory canal on one side;

2. Because earache may cause crying, when there is more pyometra in the tympanic cavity, the patient will have obvious earache and crying, if the child becomes quiet after a period of crying, and at the same time there is purulent discharge from the external auditory canal, it is highly suspected that he has otitis media, and it causes perforation;

3. Secretory otitis media can also affect hearing, although there is no clear pus outflow, but it is manifested as hearing loss on one side of the child, indicating ear disease.

Generally speaking, the probability of babies suffering from ear diseases is higher than that of adults, because the baby's eustachian tube is not yet mature, the length is only half of that of adults, and the mouth of the tube is open, so bacteria in the nasopharynx are easy to spread to the ear. So, how can you tell if a baby has otitis media?

First of all, when the baby suffers from otitis media, there will be ear pain, the baby cries non-stop, and often scratches the ears with his hands, accompanied by fever, the symptoms of refusing to drink milk, if it is slightly serious, it will lead to periosteal perforation, and purulent discharge, and the ability to hear is relatively weak.

Secondly, if the baby has a fever for several days, taking medicine or physical cooling has no fever-reducing effect, it is considered that the baby may be suffering from otitis media, to go to the hospital as soon as possible for examination, to help the baby pick the ears should also be careful, do not damage the ear canal, if the baby continues to scratch the ears, shake the head, then stop picking the baby's ears.

Another point, the wrong feeding posture may also make the baby suffer from otitis media, especially the baby who is young, can not let the baby lie flat when feeding, to lift the baby's upper body slightly, so that the baby will not flow into the ears from the mouth, the speed of feeding can not be too fast, do not feed when the baby cries, to avoid choking.

The best way to judge the symptoms of otitis media at home is that the child has severe ear pain, and then few older children first show hearing loss, but most of them are the first symptoms of respiratory tract infection combined with otitis media, which is related to the development of the child's ears and eustachian tubes.

Children cannot accurately describe their condition because of their young age, so it is very important to correctly determine whether a child has otitis media, mainly from the shape of the ear, hearing, and X-ray examination.

Initiatives are proposed. Ways to tell if your child has otitis media:

1. Otoscopy can be used to see if the ear canal is unobstructed, and special attention should be paid if there is bending or narrowing;

2. Hearing test, when talking to the child, see if the child really didn't hear or deliberately pretended not to hear;

3. X-ray examination of chronic otitis media.

Precautions. When a child has otitis media, fluid appears in the ear, and the child becomes irritable and crying.

If there is otitis media and other ear abnormalities in infancy, it should be treated in time, because if it is not treated in time, it may cause the child's hearing to be affected in the future, so how to check for otitis media in infants? There are several things you need to do to get tested for this condition.

1.If parents see that their children usually like to pull their ears, or often tell their mothers that their ears are more painful, then, this situation means that the child's ears may be abnormal, and you need to take the child to see if it is caused by abnormal conditions such as otitis media.

2.If some children often have yellow discharge in their eyes or nose, then this situation means that the child's body is being invaded by bacteria, and the possibility of otitis media after being invaded by bacteria will be relatively high.

3.In addition to these two manifestations, when babies have otitis media, their hearing will also deteriorate, and parents may not hear clearly or do not respond to the situation, which means that the child may have abnormal hearing due to otitis media.

If it is determined that there is one or several symptoms, you must take your child to the otolaryngology department for professional examination, so as not to delay otitis media**.

Children with acute otitis media present with ear pain, early crying, and frequent ear scratching, accompanied by symptoms such as fever and milk refusal.

To determine whether the baby has otitis media, you first need to pay attention to whether the baby has fever, ear pain, crying and restlessness. If the symptoms of otitis media are severe, pus may occur, and it is necessary to go to the hospital for otoscopy and blood routine tests to confirm the diagnosis.

1.Systemic symptoms, children have severe systemic symptoms, often accompanied by fever, chills, vomiting, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms.

Otitis media is not like a cold and fever, it can be seen at once. Some babies are still young and will not clearly indicate "earache", so it is not easy for parents to notice. If your baby has any of the following symptoms, then he may be suffering from otitis media.

After the baby has otitis media, he must see a doctor, follow the doctor's attention carefully**, and cannot take anti-inflammatory drugs by himself so that the baby is not thorough.

Most of the otitis media in children is secondary to acute upper respiratory tract infection, nasal congestion, sore throat, and children with otitis media will have systemic symptoms, fever, eating less, and even diarrhea.

Your earache, hearing loss, and in severe cases, purulent otitis media, pus in the ear, these symptoms should be positive**.

If the baby suddenly has ear pain and fever in the middle of the night, he may have otitis media Infants' otitis media generally occurs at night, so if these symptoms appear at night, it may be otitis media.

This is not difficult to identify, according to the outpatient reception situation and the characteristics of infants and young children, babies under one year old will not be able to express, when otitis media appears, the ear will flow pus, easy to judge. Children over one year old will express symptoms of ear pain, crying at night, generally do not flow pus, examination found that the tympanic membrane is hyperematic and edema, such a baby has a history of colds before, and has also encountered such children, no ear pain symptoms, manifested as hearing loss, said that there is a sound in the ear, the sound of the TV at home is very loud, he ignores you when talking to him, the examination finds that there is fluid in the middle ear cavity, and the nose is found to have sinusitis, sinusitis is the main cause of otitis media, and it is generally necessary to pay attention to it.

Otitis media is a common and frequent disease in children, which needs to be paid attention to to avoid hearing loss, timely see an otolaryngologist, standardize**, and recheck regularly until complete recovery.