What should be paid attention to for otitis media?

Written by Xu Qing Tian
Otolaryngology
Updated on October 29, 2024
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Otitis media requires careful attention to avoid water entering the ear and patients digging into their ears, as well as keeping warm to reduce the chances of catching colds and coughing. Otherwise, otitis media may recur and fail to heal. Otitis media is a common disease in otolaryngology and can be divided into several types, including acute otitis media and chronic suppurative otitis media. For acute otitis media, it usually follows a cold or cough, and patients often exhibit clear symptoms of bacterial infection. Treatment typically involves antibiotics and ear drops, and patients' otitis media can usually be cured. The causative factors for chronic suppurative otitis media mainly include infection of the middle ear cavity and cholesteatoma. Treatment often requires a radical mastoidectomy to achieve cure. (Please use medications under the guidance of a doctor.)

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How to treat granulation in otitis media?

Granulation tissue proliferation in otitis media indicates an active phase of inflammation. In clinical treatment, the first approach is medication, mainly using antibiotics and hormones, with both local and systemic applications of these drugs concurrently. Treatment usually lasts about two weeks. Generally, most granulations in otitis media are relatively small and can gradually shrink or even completely disappear with such medication. For granulations that fill the middle ear and tympanic cavity, if they cannot be reduced or controlled effectively through medication, then surgical intervention is necessary to remove the granulations in the middle ear cavity and thus treat the otitis media.

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What should I do if otitis media is causing pus discharge?

Otitis media refers to various inflammations of the middle ear cavity, primarily bacterial inflammation. These bacteria are mainly Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Otorrhea in otitis media indicates relatively severe inflammation and the occurrence of a tympanic membrane perforation, allowing the purulent discharge to be expelled from the ear. In addition to indicating severe inflammation of otitis media, it is necessary to use antibiotics to control the infection. This can include topical antibiotic ear drops like compound polymyxin B ear drops and oral cephalosporin antibiotics, as well as intravenous infusion of cephalosporins to treat the infection.

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What are the symptoms of otitis media?

Otitis media comes in several types, with most cases of acute otitis media involving ear pain, typically throbbing or stabbing pain, followed by decreased hearing, or tinnitus. There may also be ear discharge or pus; using a cotton swab, one might notice an unusual smell from the ear secretions. Systemic symptoms such as fever and chills are less common, with the primary symptoms being localized, mainly consisting of ear pain, reduced hearing, and discharge.

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Can otitis media be cured?

Otitis media is a common and frequently occurring disease in clinical practice. It is divided into acute otitis media and chronic otitis media, as well as another type known as cholesteatoma otitis media, or middle ear cholesteatoma. Currently, the main treatment for acute otitis media involves anti-infection therapies. For chronic otitis media or middle ear cholesteatoma, the treatment primarily involves surgical methods to remove pathological tissue within the ear and to repair structural damage. Generally speaking, otitis media is treatable. However, some cases of otitis media, due to frequent acute flare-ups, prolonged infiltration, and accompanying structural pathologies, can be relatively tricky to treat. But this does not mean that otitis media cannot be treated or cured.

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What should be paid attention to for otitis media?

Otitis media requires careful attention to avoid water entering the ear and patients digging into their ears, as well as keeping warm to reduce the chances of catching colds and coughing. Otherwise, otitis media may recur and fail to heal. Otitis media is a common disease in otolaryngology and can be divided into several types, including acute otitis media and chronic suppurative otitis media. For acute otitis media, it usually follows a cold or cough, and patients often exhibit clear symptoms of bacterial infection. Treatment typically involves antibiotics and ear drops, and patients' otitis media can usually be cured. The causative factors for chronic suppurative otitis media mainly include infection of the middle ear cavity and cholesteatoma. Treatment often requires a radical mastoidectomy to achieve cure. (Please use medications under the guidance of a doctor.)