Beware of otitis media with cold

Otitis media is a disease of the children common, often triggered by a cold, if the long-delayed dead or not completely heal from acute to chronic, ear discharging more than the expense of the impact of hearing, heavy cause serious complications, dire consequences.

Beware of otitis media in a cold week, unhealed

A child after a cold earache, ear swelling, tinnitus, ear symptoms such as water, smaller ears of children grasp the phenomenon occurs, parents should take children to the hospital as soon as possible to see ENT doctors, because part of the child, after a cold concurrent otitis media. As some of the younger children are unable to clearly describe the disease, otitis media after the common cold is often neglected by their parents, so develop into chronic otitis media. It is therefore recommended when the child after a cold, but also check to see if ENT ears.

Susceptibility to acute otitis media in children

The occurrence of otitis media in children by three ways: the most common is by the Eustachian tube (the nasopharynx in common with the middle ear tubes) invaded the middle ear; followed by the ear canal invasive middle ear; or bacteria through the blood circulation in the middle ear inflammation caused by . Because growth and development of children’s sake because of its short and straight eustachian tube, when cold, the inflammation can easily spread to short and straight eustachian tube and middle ear. On the other hand, children with a cold, respiratory mucosal congestion, edema, resulting in opening the eustachian tube and nasal lacrimal duct obstruction. Eustachian tube obstruction of gas can not enter the middle ear, while the middle ear mucosa of the gas is continually being absorbed, so that a pressure imbalance between tympanic membrane appeared stuffy ears, and even otitis media. Thus, in outpatient treatment of otitis media otorhinolaryngology small patients, 80% of the common cold causing the problem.

Finally, incorrect method of blowing the nose (such as those of both sides of the nose blowing nose, snot easy access to the middle ear; a bad habit of digging the ear) also damage the skin, causing otitis externa, spread into the middle ear.

Prevention

Acute otitis media is not a minor illness, but with a certain degree of harm, therefore, in order to prevent a child suffering from acute otitis media, we must proceed from the prevention aspects.

First of all, children suffering from acute infectious disease should be avoided not allow children to suffer from infectious diseases, neighbors stopping by, without children to public places to play, while the various vaccination schedule in order to remove or reduce the incidence of infectious diseases.

Beware of climate change, pay attention to their children change clothes to avoid the cold or influenza. Where acute rhinitis, acute bronchitis, pneumonia or acute infectious disease, should be properly treated to prevent concurrent ear disease. Nose and throat chronic diseases, such as sinusitis, tonsillitis, adenoid Yandeng, it must be treated promptly to reduce the opportunities for ear infections.

In addition, pay attention to hygiene, correct the habit of digging ears. When taking a bath with your kids can use a small cotton ball squeezed the ear canal clean and avoid being sewage poured into the ear canal.

Finally, the use of reasonable and proper method of blowing your nose, not those of both sides of the nose forcefully blowing the nose, hold down the side of the nose should be rotated, gently blowing out the nose, or a soft handkerchief placed in front of the nose, so that children from singing the same tune, by air impulse out the nose. Young sick child understand blowing the nose, can be a soft handkerchief, gently Kaishi, do not push as hard, so you can avoid the nose into the middle ear, so as to cause otitis media.