Otitis sick children at any age. This is a fairly unpleasant and dangerous for the baby disease. Treatment of otitis media in children, especially at an early age, is complicated by the fact that this disease is difficult to detect - a three-year child can complain of pain in the ear, and a six- or seven-month baby that still can not do.
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The causes of otitis
Otitis - a disease that manifests plugging the eustachian tube, middle ear fluid stagnation occurs. The reason is the skid of bacteria into the middle ear from the nasopharynx.
Young children frequently suffer from otitis media due to the fact that they have the Eustachian tube is located between the nasopharynx and the middle ear in the horizontal plane, so that the bacteria can easily penetrate to the middle ear. With age, the Eustachian tubes are displaced vertically and into the middle ear microorganisms there becomes more difficult.
How dangerous is otitis media?
The tympanic membrane of the middle ear due to the pressure of accumulated liquid may burst, the consequences of this - the onset of deafness.
The signs of this disease include:
- sharp pain in the ear;
- ear discharge, hearing loss;
- anxiety, irritability.
Treatment of otitis media in children is hampered by the fact that initially manifested itself otitis media, like the common cold and SARS - fever and a runny nose. As a rule, otitis begins abruptly raising the temperature to 39-40 degrees. Breast fed babies at creating pressure in the nasopharynx, which intensifies the pain. Therefore, feeding becomes very painful and the baby constantly crying child.
Otitis media in children is often a complication of acute respiratory disease, after the common cold is not dolechennogo. If your child has a weak immune system, and he can not blow his nose properly, the mucus from the nasal canal into the middle ear through the Eustachian tube, causing its inflammation.
There is also allergic otitis. If the allergy is manifested by skin rash, tympanic cavity is opened, the fluid flows out of the ear.
Treatment of otitis media in children
The treatment of otitis in children - the process is not fast, sometimes it takes to 2 weeks. The process of treating otitis in children must certainly be under the control of the attending physician. You need to turn to the otolaryngology doctor immediately. The treatment of otitis in children should be comprehensive:
- the child must be in full peace so as not to cause unwanted complications;
- the doctor prescribes antibiotics to destroy the causative agent of the disease. These drugs can be both in tablets (digital, solutab) and in drops (Sofradex, Otipax - certainly room temperature before injection);
- for the purpose of the doctor, you can use warming compresses, rinse the auditory passage, to warm your ear;
- in the formation of an abscess - it must be opened in a medical institution;
- if a Pump has already flowed from the ear, the doctor caresses the drumpoint so that it is faster than that;
- to remove pain syndrome take painkillers (nurofen).
Parents need to know that the heating of the ear and warming compresses cannot be made at high temperatures. To the treatment of otitis in children you need to approach very and very seriously.
In children after transferred otitis, a decline in hearing may occur. If parents are confident about this, you need to immediately consult a doctor. But it is worth remembering that the reduction of hearing for 1-3 months is a permissible norm. Next, the hearing should recover.
If the child is engaged in the swimming section, this kind of sport will need to stop at some time. Water getting into the ears during recovery is categorically unacceptable. In cold windy weather, the child must go outside the heat dressed and necessarily in the headdress.