“Mom, my ears hurt! I heard a buzzing sound! It’s like taking a plane…”

As soon as the kindergarten is over, my son He rushed to Zhou Ting, who was waiting for her at the school gate, crying and complaining that she had experienced a day of pain in her right ear.

She immediately turned on her phone’s flashlight and pointed it at the inside of his ear, it turned out to have pus in it, she was so frightened that she hurriedly took the child to the ENT clinic of the hospital.

After examination, Peng Hong, Chief Physician of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Guangdong Second People’s Hospital< span>Tell Zhou Ting that the child’s upper respiratory tract infection was repeated, and the method of blowing his nose was wrong, which caused pathogenic bacteria to enter the middle ear, which caused otitis media.

Hearing this, she regrets it, her son has been running nose for the last week ,I thought it was a cold, but I didn’t expect it to affect my ears.

When should you be alert to otitis media? How to properly use ear drops when the ear is uncomfortable? 39Health.com invited Peng Hong, chief physician of the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery of the Second People’s Hospital of Guangdong Province, to popularize knowledge about otitis media among netizens.

I. What symptoms may be caused by otitis media?

“Discomfort in the ear is one of the most common symptoms of otitis media.” Peng Hong said that the symptoms of otitis media are various, usually including ear stuffiness, pain, pus, Tinnitus, hearing loss, etc., and communication impairment occurs in severe cases.

However, very few patients do not have these symptoms, but feel dizziness, headache, and even facial paralysis.

Don’t underestimate otitis media! Peng Hong pointed out that if there is no timely and effective treatment, the possibility of deafness is very high, but the degree is different.

She added that if it is a secretory otitis media with an intact tympanic membrane, it may lead to mild conductive hearing loss, which is generally more common in children; if it is acute suppurative otitis media with a perforated tympanic membrane Or when middle ear cholesteatoma destroys the ossicular chain, it is easy to cause moderate to moderate to severe conductive hearing loss.

“The cause of these two cases is mainly pathogenic bacterial infection, if bacterial toxin Or inflammatory mediators enter the inner ear through the round window membrane, and the patient will develop mixed deafness on the basis of conductive deafness, which will evolve into sensorineural deafness or even total deafness as the disease progresses.” p>

Therefore, she suggested that when symptoms related to otitis media appear, you should go to the hospital in time to avoid delaying the best time for treatment.

Second, how to avoid the “pit” of ear drops?

An ear bath with antibiotic ear drops is the most commonly used and effective method for the treatment of otitis media. Improper use will not only affect the effect of drug treatment, but also cause other uncomfortable symptoms.

How to avoid the “pit” has become a concern of many patients. In this regard, Peng Hong shared a few points of attention.

“First of all, before using ear drops, be sure to clean up all the secretions in the ear under the guidance of a doctor, Clean.” She emphasized that this is the most critical prerequisite for a good therapeutic effect of antibiotic ear drops.

Secondly, you need to carefully read the instructions for ear drops, including shelf life, ingredients, storage methods, etc. “It is more important to pay attention to Is there any ototoxicity, if so, try not to use it in the case of perforated eardrum.”

Peng Hong reminded, span>Try not to use corrosive preparations such as colored, phenol or heavy metals, otherwise it may cause inner ear damage and even induce neural deafness.

In addition, it is best to keep the temperature at 37 degrees before using ear drops Left and right, The temperature is too high or too low, it is easy to induce symptoms such as dizziness.

She also mentioned that some patients felt their ears were wet after use, so they put cotton swabs in their ears to dry them, or blocked their ears with cotton balls. This kind of practice will further damage the ear, and it will not be a big problem to keep the ear drops in the ear.”

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