2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21
How can you tell if a child has an earache? Even children older than two years cannot always characterize the nature of the pain. What can we say about babies! Knowing the symptoms of otitis in a child, the disease can be "caught" at the onset phase.
If your ear hurts
With pain in the ears, the child becomes capricious, restless. Refuses to lie down, sometimes pulls at the ear. The shell or the area around the ear canal differs from the color of the skin of the cheek, looks inflamed. If the tragus - a knot located opposite the entrance to the ear - is lightly pressed, the baby will wince or whimper. All this points to the symptoms of otitis media in a child.
What is otitis media
Otitis media is an inflammatory disease of the ear. May have the form:
- external - inflammation develops in the ear canal;
- in the middle ear, behind the eardrum;
- internal - the disease affects the organs directly responsible for hearing: the cochlea and the labyrinth in which it is located.
The disease develops very quickly, passing from a subacute stage to an acute one. Otitis media is dangerous due to the development of complications, fromparesis of the facial nerve to hearing loss and meningitis and encephalitis. It occurs not only with colds or seasonal diseases - with any penetration of the infection into the ear canal or into the Eustachian tube, during caries, stomatitis, furunculosis.
With a runny nose and viral diseases, if the nose is blocked, otitis media instantly flares up in an infant. The symptoms of the disease are the same as in any other case. This is explained by the fact that in babies the Eustachian tube is located horizontally and wider, and with a runny nose, mucus easily flows into it.
Otitis media detected - parental actions
If symptoms of otitis media are found in a child, then it is necessary to consult a doctor. But it can't be done instantly! You can alleviate the condition of the baby by cleaning his nose and dripping it with vasoconstrictor drops. It is desirable to raise the baby to reduce tension in the eardrum. The pain syndrome is reduced if a folded flannelette diaper is applied to the ear or cotton wool is put into the ear passage so that the ear is warmed by its warmth. No vodka compresses or attempts to independently get into the ear canal with a cotton swab should be allowed! The infection can be brought deeper, and the catarrhal form of the disease will turn into purulent otitis media.
In a child, the symptoms of this disease can be seen by the outflow of pus from the ear. This happens when the eardrum is torn.
If this happens, the pain is relieved. But this does not mean that a doctor's consultation is no longer needed. Only an otolaryngologist should prescribe drugs depending onfrom the pathogen or cause that caused the disease.
Possible complications and precautions
Otitis media usually heals within 2 weeks and requires antibiotics. If you self-medicate and use remedies from the arsenal of traditional medicine without consulting a doctor, the infection can penetrate the eye socket or meninges.
In case of purulent otitis media, pus is constantly required to be removed from the ear canal with cotton turundas, with catarrhal it is possible to prescribe heating.
Together with the treatment of otitis media, it is necessary to deal with the elimination of the cause that caused it. If it is a catarrhal infection - gargle the baby's throat, if inflammatory diseases of the oral cavity - treat the mucous membrane with prescribed drugs.
When treating otitis media, care must be taken to ensure that the child does not have a stuffy nose and no additional pressure is created on the eardrum.
Similar symptoms of otitis in a child of any age and purpose are approximately the same. Only the doses of medicinal substances differ.
If in the treatment of otitis in infants and young children, parents are faced with such a difficulty as to prevent mucus from flowing into the child's ear - babies lie more, then with teenagers the problem is different. Explaining to an "almost adult" creature that no hair washing until the disease is over is sometimes more difficult than putting a baby with otitis media to bed.
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