What is otitis media and what are the dangers?

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.

1. What are the symptoms of otitis media in children?

Otitis media is a common disease in children, mainly in children, if not diagnosed and treated in time to the health of children has a great impact and harm, because the baby is too young, do not know how to express their symptoms and pain, so parents should pay special attention to its symptoms, choose the right method as soon as possible. Let's take a look at what the experts have to say.

What are the symptoms of otitis media in children? Experts said that otitis media should be detected early to avoid the disease endangering the health of children.

1. Early stage: children show lack of energy, loss of appetite, tinnitus, ear discomfort, etc. (children will not express), but the discomfort of the ears will affect the baby's play and sleep. During this examination, doctors may find an inverted eardrum (medically called eardrum) and fluid in the middle ear.

2. Progressive stage: manifested as high fever, body temperature up to 39 40, children crying, hearing loss and earache, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other digestive symptoms. These manifestations resemble a cold or enteritis and are easily overlooked or misdiagnosed.

On examination, the eardrum may be congested, and the ossicle may be red and swollen, and bulging.

3. Peak period: children with high fever, refusal to eat, gray complexion, fluctuating tinnitus, hearing loss and earache radiating to the surroundings in severe cases. Examination may reveal a bulging eardrum and empyema in the middle ear.

4. Late stage: Generally, after 4-5 days of illness, the child's body temperature drops, the earache disappears, and he can fall asleep, but the eardrum is ruptured, pus flows out of the ear canal, and tinnitus and hearing loss still exist.

2. Otitis media**.

In terms of otitis media, there is no specific drug for the time being, and experts recommend: "tympanoplasty" **otitis media, **thorough, **bitter, not after surgery**, because of its good ** effect has won the trust of the majority of patients.

1. Ear endoscopy for fine examination of ear lesions, one of the keys to ensuring the safety of surgery is to fully expose the surgical field.

2. The use of ear microscopy technology to locate the lesions in the deep and hidden places of the ear can effectively reduce the difficulty risk and improve the accuracy.

3. Guidance of ear endoscope and otomicroscope.

4. The surgical purpose of otitis media can be achieved by performing surgery such as tyringocentesis, myringotomy, tympanic catheterization, etc.

What is the harm of otitis media, the harm of otitis media is that it drains pus when it is inflamed, which affects life, study, life, and will also lead to hearing loss! The most serious is meningitis! So if you have otitis media, you have to be in time**!

Otitis media is a common disease of ENT and many diseases, otitis media is divided into purulent otitis media, non-purulent otitis media, and there are many reasons for otitis media, such as otitis media caused by various bacterial and viral infections, as well as otitis media caused by colds, different **** methods are also different, such as otitis media caused by bacterial infection, then antibiotics need to be used, antibiotics can be taken orally, or intravenous infusion can be considered, if the symptoms are more serious, It can also be combined with topical antibiotics at the same time**.

Hello, the main hazards are serious and can cause intracranial and extracranial complications, such as purulent meningitis, brain abscess, labyrinthitis, facial nerve paralysis, and even life-threatening.

Otitis media can cause many harms, such as meningitis, brain abscess, and hearing loss.

1.Meningitis.

Otitis media itself is an inflammation, if the inflammation cannot be ** for a long time, the inflammation will spread to the surrounding tissues, and the middle ear and the cranial part are relatively close, the inflammation can be involved in the skull through the mastoid process or adjacent tissue structures, thus causing meningitis.

2.Brain abscess.

Otitis media causes a large amount of pus to build up in the ear canal, and if this pus is not treated, it can flow backwards into the brain, causing a brain abscess.

3.Hearing loss.

Otitis media may cause perforation of the eardrum by telepathy, which can lead to labyrinthitis. Patients may experience conductive hearing loss or sensorineural hearing loss.

It is recommended that patients with otitis media should be actively undertaken**, because the prognosis of otitis media is different depending on the type of otitis media, and severe patients need to take antibiotics under the guidance of a doctor**.

If you have any other special circumstances, please follow your doctor's advice.

People suffering from acute otitis media generally have fever, throbbing pain in the ear, making people restless and hearing greatly affected. Young children often cry and do not stop crying, swing their heads from side to side, or constantly touch the affected ear with their hands, and ask high questions that will cause convulsions. When yawning and sneezing, the pressure in the tympanic cavity increases and the pain increases.

When the pressure rises to a certain level, pus will penetrate the eardrum and flow out of the external auditory canal, as described below

Recurrent otitis media can enlarge the perforation of the eardrum and harden the adhesions in the middle ear, further reducing hearing. If the drug is not used properly, it can also cause a decline in the nerve function of the inner ear, which makes it more difficult to treat.

Otitis media can lead to bone ulcer or cholesteatoma otitis media, and bone erosion may lead to facial nerve palsy, meningitis, brain abscess and other intracranial and extracranial complications, and even life-threatening.

1. Affect the conduction and amplification of sound in the middle ear, resulting in conductive deafness. For example, secretory otitis media affects children's hearing and causes learning disabilities, which often cannot attract the attention of parents.

2. Long-term chronic inflammation of purulent otitis media will damage the inner ear, resulting in mixed deafness, hearing loss is mild in the early morning, aggravated in the later stage, and the older the age, the more obvious.

3. Acute purulent otitis media is not timely, which will lead to various complications: including intracranial complications and extracranial complications; Such as brain abscess, meningitis, sigmoid sinus thrombophlebitis.

4. Facial paralysis, the facial nerve innervates facial movement through the middle ear, and otitis media has the risk of causing facial paralysis, which is manifested as the inability to close the eyes, the corners of the mouth are crooked, and the taste of the tongue is weakened.

5. Cause perforation of the tympanic membrane and long-term pus.

6. Long-term otitis media with blood capillaries should be alert to the possibility of middle ear cancer, especially if it is found that the pus is bloody fluid or accompanied by long-lasting pain that cannot be relieved!

1. Acute purulent otitis media**If not timely and thorough, most of them may turn into chronic otitis media, in addition, if there is chronic rhinitis, chronic sinusitis and chronic tonsillitis, bacteria may repeatedly invade the middle ear cavity, and otitis media latent to lead to chronic otitis media.

2. Chronic otitis media can be divided into three types according to the time of illness and the severity of the disease: simple, abscess and cholesteatoma. Their common manifestation is that they all have pus in the ear, which is recurring, and sometimes the pus is mixed with bloody discharge; In addition, there is tinnitus and hearing loss, and if complications occur, there will be dizziness and headache.

3. Ear pus and hearing loss, although it is very annoying, but for patients with chronic otitis media, these are not the most important, the most worrying thing is the complications, before the complications, the patient often has no feeling, but if it appears, then the condition is often serious, and some are even life-threatening, therefore, it is necessary to be hospitalized immediately**.

Among ear diseases, otitis media is relatively common and is generally the most common among children. Children's resistance is relatively poor, and it is easy to suffer from various diseases. When a child has a cold or respiratory infection, it is easy to take advantage of the weakness to enter, resulting in damage to the child's ears, with symptoms such as ear pain, accompanied by tinnitus, and in severe cases, rapid hearing loss, and even pus.

If this disease can not be timely **, it will slowly turn from mild otitis media to severe otitis media, which will lead to repeated pus from the ear, and make the hearing worse and worse, sometimes there will be headaches and dizziness, and more serious will lead to deafness, so after suffering from otitis media, you must seek medical attention in time, some friends just do not pay attention to this disease, resulting in more and more serious in the end, and you have delayed the best time to know the best when you want to **.

In addition to seeking medical attention in time, friends suffering from otitis media also need to pay attention to ear hygiene in their daily life, do not put too much pressure on their ears, and keep their ears clean. You should also pay more attention to your diet, don't eat some spicy food, eat more foods rich in various vitamins, and it is best to eat more foods that are easier to chew, such as noodles or tofu.

If you unfortunately suffer from otitis media, remember not to go to the pharmacy to buy some drops**, be sure to go to the hospital to let the doctor see the condition, and then use the medicine according to the specific condition. If you use the drug without authorization, it is likely to lead to the aggravation of the condition, which will eventually backfire.

Otitis media is a common disease in otolaryngology, and the specific hazards are as follows:

1. Once the tympanic membrane is perforated, the protective effect on the middle ear will be damaged, resulting in external bacteria, sewage and foreign bodies easily entering the middle ear, and then causing repeated infections of the middle ear;

2. The clinical characteristics of chronic otitis media are long-term and repeated pus, sometimes the pus will be accompanied by foul smell, and even bloody pus, which seriously affects the quality of life;

3. Long-term and repeated inflammation of pus can damage the ossicles, and bacterial toxins can damage the auditory nerve and cause gradual hearing loss, and otitis media is the most common cause of hearing loss or hearing loss;

4. Some patients with chronic otitis media will also be combined with the formation of middle ear cholesteatoma, although cholesteatoma is not a tumor, but its harm is very serious, cholesteatoma will invade the surrounding bone, which may lead to intracranial and extracranial complications, and then cause facial paralysis, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, meningitis and other complications.

The hazard analysis of otitis media is as follows:

1.Otitis media usually causes earache, fever, and pus in the ear, which becomes infected due to pus in the ear cavity. This can cause hearing loss, which can cause people to be unable to hear their surroundings.

2.If symptoms of otitis media progress, there is a possibility of intracranial infection and subperiosteal infection behind the ear. Inner ear labyrinthitis or facial paralysis, brain abscess, meningitis, etc. may also occur.

3.If otitis media damages the inner ear, it can cause sensorineural hearing loss. Recovery is usually difficult, and severe cases can cause permanent tinnitus.

1. Patients with chronic purulent otitis media will have intermittent or repeated ear pus, which brings confusion to the patient's life; 2. Otitis media will damage the ossicles or periosteum, causing varying degrees of tinnitus or hearing loss; 3. When chronic purulent otitis media is severe, it will cause bone destruction, especially when accompanied by cholesteatoma, bone destruction is more obvious, which will cause changes in the adjacent trachea, such as vertigo, facial paralysis, meningitis, brain abscess and phlebitis; 4. When the trigeminal nerve and abducens nerve are affected, there will be stubborn headache or eye movement disorder; 5. When intracranial compression occurs, cerebral edema and brain herniation can also occur and be life-threatening.

Harm. 1. Cause facial paralysis and crooked mouth and eyes.

The five senses of the human body, such as ears, nose, mouth, brain, and face, are connected, so when the inflammation of otitis media enters the brain, it will cause health problems such as meningitis, extrameningeal abscess and brain abscess, and destroy the brain, the "headquarters" of the human body, which is fatal, such as paralysis and complete blindness of the human body. Invasion of the face can cause facial paralysis and crooked mouth and eyes.

Harm. Second, it causes labyrinthitis.

Some patients with otitis media sometimes have systemic toxic reactions such as fever, cold intolerance, loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, etc., which is actually labyrinthitis caused by inflammation into the inner ear, which will damage the body's internal organs for a long time.

Harm. 3. Induce perforation of the eardrum, resulting in hearing loss.

After the middle ear is inflamed, it will cause an imbalance in the internal and external pressure of the patient's ear cavity, and the long-term development will also lead to perforation of the eardrum, damage to the ossicular chain, and the sound cannot be transmitted to the brain center, resulting in hearing loss in the patient; When inflammation progresses to the brain, it destroys the hearing nerve center, causing complete hearing loss and deafness.

Harm. Fourth, cause bleeding of large blood vessels in the neck.

For abscesses caused by purulent otitis media, if not carried out in time**, it may cause bleeding from the large blood vessels in the neck, leading to death.