How to treat otitis externa in children

Only with good health can we enjoy life better, so parents attach great importance to their children's physical condition. More and more parents are more concerned about their children's physical and mental health. Nowadays, young parents like to cultivate their children's hobbies. Some children like swimming, but they suffer from otitis externa after swimming. How to treat otitis externa in children?

1. What are the treatments for baby otitis externa?

1. Drug treatment

1. Early local hot compress or ultrashort wave thermal therapy.

2. In severe cases, antibiotics should be used to control the infection. Take sedatives and analgesics.

3. Apply 1-3% phenol glycerin or 10% ichthyol glycerin to the ear topically, or apply the above liquid gauze to the affected area, changing the gauze twice a day. Chronic cases can be treated with topical application of a mixture of antibiotics and steroid hormones (such as prednisolone, dexamethasone, etc.), pastes or creams. Pus and secretions in the external auditory canal can be cleaned with 3% hydrogen peroxide.

4. Actively treat infected lesions such as suppurative otitis media, and diagnose and treat certain related systemic diseases such as diabetes.

(B) Surgical treatment

When the furuncle matures, the pus head should be punctured or drained by incision in time.

(III) TCM Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment of Otitis Externa

The disease belongs to the category of ear sores in traditional Chinese medicine, which is mostly caused by wind-heat invasion or excessive heat toxicity. The treatment should be to dispel wind and heat, detoxify and reduce swelling.

1. Take the oral medicine Yinqiao Pills and Niuhuang Jiedu Pills orally twice a day.

2. External medications: ① Apply Coptis chinensis paste and Zijin tablets to the external auditory canal. ② Grind equal amounts of Chinese medicine calamus and aconite into powder and mix with sesame oil and drip into the ear. ③If accompanied by swelling around the ears. It can be mixed with water for external application (i.e. grind Phellodendron amurense into powder, add equal amount of gypsum and cold boiled water to make a paste and apply it to the swollen area around the ear or apply a hot and damp towel to the area).

2. 4 symptoms of baby's external otitis

1. Severe pain: If the skin of the external auditory canal is damaged and infected, pus will form. Under the long-term stimulation of pathogenic bacteria, there will be severe pain in the external auditory canal, especially when eating and chewing food, the symptoms will worsen and scatter to the surrounding areas.

2. Blockage of the external auditory canal: This disease can cause local swelling of the external auditory canal. Since the external auditory canal is narrow, long and small, it is easy to cause blockage. When the symptoms are severe, tinnitus will occur, causing hearing loss in the patient.

3. Purulent secretions: Due to bacterial infection of the ear canal, inflammation occurs in the ear canal and pus is caused. From time to time, secretions will flow out of the patient's ears, and there will be itching symptoms. The patient can't help but pick his ears, which will aggravate the condition and cause more serious consequences.

4. External auditory canal furuncle: This disease mostly occurs in the cartilage part of the ear canal. In the early stage, it is just very painful and accompanied by high body temperature. As the furuncle matures, the ear pain will disappear. After puncture, there will be a large amount of pus inside.

Parents and friends must do relevant preventive work, pay more attention to the health care of children's ears, pay attention to ear hygiene, let children grow up healthily, live healthily, and stay away from various diseases.