What are the symptoms of otitis media in a one month baby?

Babies with otitis media generally have symptoms of earache, and smaller children cannot express this pain and often cry. Some children with otitis media may have hearing changes. Children with secretory otitis media may have discharge from their ears.

Some children even have a fever. It is recommended to go to the hospital in time**.

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. Scratch your ears: Before the age of 2, the child can't tell where he hurts, but he will tell you with actions. If he keeps touching his ears, scratching his ears, and pulling his ears, you have to wonder if he has otitis media.

2. Fever: otitis media is often accompanied by a sudden fever, the body temperature can rise to 40, and when the fever persists after taking medicine, it is necessary to consider that the baby may suffer from otitis media, and go to the otolaryngology department for examination as soon as possible.

3. Left and right shaking head: Left and right shaking is also an important feature of otitis media. Because of the discomfort in the ear, the baby will try to reduce the symptoms by shaking his head. So, if you notice that your baby is restless and shakes his head, you should think that his ears may be uncomfortable.

4. Crying: The child suddenly becomes irritable, keeps crying, and can't sleep well at night because of the pain, so take him to the doctor immediately.

5. Hydrops in the ears: When otitis media occurs, there will be fluid accumulation in the middle ear and the eardrum will swell. When the eardrum is perforated, a yellow secretion flows out.

If dry skin appears around your child's ears, you should pay attention. 6. Hearing impairment: Because a large amount of fluid is retained in the middle ear, otitis media may cause temporary hearing impairment to the baby.

If you notice that your baby is slow to respond to your call, and you call him several times and ignore him, take him to an ENT as soon as possible.

Babies with otitis media will initially have blood in their ears, followed by mucus suppuration, fever, chills, fatigue, and loss of appetite.

Once the baby suffers from otitis media, there may be symptoms such as crying, shaking the head, fever, always scratching the ear, water accumulation in the ear, and poor hearing. For otitis media, it is important for parents to be vigilant and carry out it as early as possible**.

Fever, crying, irritability, scratching ears with hands.

Baby otitis media can have different manifestations depending on age:

1. Infants and young children who have no ability to express themselves are mostly manifested as crying, unwilling to eat, scratching their ears with their hands, patting their heads, and having restless sleep;

2. Children who are slightly older and can express mildly will say that they have earache, unclear listening, ringing ears, and their own voice is particularly loud when speaking, or the baby himself does not have any complaints, but the parents find that the hearing is poor and there is no response to obedience;

3. Regardless of age, fever symptoms may occur.

When parents find that the baby has the above symptoms, they must pay attention to Daxiang and take the child to the hospital for examination in time. You can go to the otolaryngology department for ear endoscopy to check the manifestations of the external auditory canal and tympanic membrane, such as whether there is redness and swelling in the external auditory canal, whether the tympanic membrane is perforated and congested, and whether there is purulent discharge in the external auditory canal.