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Otitis occurs from the viral or bacterial inflammation of middle ear leading to the accumulation of fluid; a build-up of pus and mucus, behind the eardrum. This symptom may cause by a result of chronically inflected adenoids or the abnormal of facial or skull structure. As a result, there will be the blockage of the Eustachian tube during a cold, allergy or upper respiratory inflection.  


 
 

This symptom is usually caused by bacterial germs. Not over 3 weeks, patients will be inflected on the upper airway seriously; which occurs frequently in young children; older children will relief rapider than younger one. Due to the acute inflammation, the children may have symptoms of a cold, earache, fullness in the ear, crying, vomiting, tugging an ear or eating less. However, patient will relief if the fluid or pus in the middle ear let out; besides, this symptom will not hold more than 12 weeks.


As a result of increasing numbers of bacteria, patient will be treated by Antibiotics. Within 48-72 hours, if the antibiotics do not seem to be working , doctors will treat you by the surgery opening the eardrum call myringotomy to relieve pressure and allow drainage of the fluid; which doctor will take for examination.


 
 

This symptom is the violent acute inflammation of middle ear inflected more than 3 months. As a result, there occurs the perforated eardrum or allergies due to bacterial inflection. Children does not pain or have fever from this symptom but there is sometimes fluid; pus and smelling.


You have to clean your ear letting out the pus by using the cotton bud. In case of the acute inflammation or chronic, you may be take the antibiotic and ear drop avoiding ear drop that can harm the inner ear such as the steroid because it may be occurs fungal on the external ear.


 
 

This symptom causes by the blocking by fluid in the middle ear; white or yellow discharge from ear. Perhaps, it causes by inflammation from the middle ear before. However, there is no symptom of earache, fever, fullness of the ear or pus-like drainage from the ear.


Using Antihistamine or Decongestant in case of the upper airway infected by the inflammation or allergy. Actually, doctors recommend patients to open the Eustachian tube both of 2 sides of ear and press the air in the ear or close one side of nose and sneeze violently. If the patients get loss of hearing, doctor will do the surgery opening the tympanum. However, patients have to avoid the diving or staying in the sudden pressure changes place such as the airport or in airplanes to get better and prevent the chronic otitis.


 
 

In this case, some patients have to get the adenoid surgery but not for the tonsil surgery. For patients who inflected for a long time by not to be treated, eardrum will stick with the skin of ear or ear ossicle bones caused the trapping of fluid at the external ear being as a hole. As a result, it is very difficult to see and clean the inner side of a hole. Patients will be treated by the surgery; in case of some who lose of hearing, they have to use Hearing aids.

 

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