Treatment of otitis media in infants and young children

I believe that everyone is familiar with otitis media in infants and young children. We may have seen some friends who are infants and young children suffering from otitis media. This disease causes great harm to our ears. Many patients with otitis media do not have high enough fidelity, which causes the otitis media to worsen and cause a series of inflammations. What's more, infants with severe otitis media cannot hear clearly and have caused great distress to many people. So, is there any good way to treat this kind of otitis media in infants and young children? Let us now learn about the best treatment for otitis media in infants and young children.

Treatment:

1. Actively treat nasopharyngeal diseases to prevent bacteria from entering the middle ear and causing inflammation.

2. Do not blow your nose forcefully or rinse your nasal cavity casually. Do not close both nostrils at the same time. Blow your nose crosswise.

3. When digging out the earwax at the bottom, you should be very careful and moisten it first before digging to avoid damaging the eardrum.

4. After swimming ashore, tilt your head and hop on one foot to let the water in your ears flow out. It is best to use a cotton swab to absorb the moisture.

5. Pay attention to rest during the acute phase and keep the nasal cavity open.

6. People with chronic otitis media should not swim.

7. Strengthen physical exercise, improve physical fitness and reduce colds.

8. Avoid spicy and irritating foods, such as ginger, pepper, wine, mutton, chili, etc.

9. Do not take hot tonic medicines, such as ginseng, cinnamon, aconite, deer antler, bullwhip, and tonic paste.

10. Eat more fresh vegetables that have heat-clearing and anti-inflammatory effects, such as celery, loofah, eggplant, shepherd's purse, basil, cucumber, bitter melon, etc.

11. If a small insect enters the ear canal, do not be impatient and try to catch it forcefully. Instead, drop some cooking oil into the ear to kill the insect and then catch it.

12. Actively treat focal diseases of the upper respiratory tract

Such as chronic sinusitis and chronic tonsillitis.

13. Medication

The simple type is mainly treated with local medication, and antibiotic aqueous solution or a mixture of antibiotics and steroid hormones, such as 0.25% chloramphenicol solution, chloramphenicol cortisone solution, ofloxacin ear drops, etc., can be used to treat otitis media and otitis externa.

14. Precautions for topical medication

(1) Before using the medicine, clean the pus in the external auditory canal and middle ear cavity. You can use 3% hydrogen peroxide or boric acid water for cleaning, then wipe it clean with a cotton swab or use an aspirator to suck out the pus before dripping the medicine.

(2) When the amount of pus is large, use water; when the amount is small, use boric acid alcohol.

15. If a large perforation of the tympanic membrane affects hearing, tympanoplasty or tympanoplasty may be performed.

The above content introduces us to how to treat otitis media in infants and young children. Through understanding the above content, we find that otitis media is far less scary than we imagined. We can recover health through treatment. We can tell many people around us about the methods introduced above. I hope the above content will be helpful to everyone.