Symptoms of otitis media in six-month-old babies

If a six-month-old baby gets otitis media, the harm is relatively large. This is closely related to the child's incomplete physical development. For example, when the child cries or because of bathing, water enters the ear canal, this may induce otitis media. When a child gets otitis media, it may first cause fever, crying, loss of appetite, etc. Let's take a look at the symptoms of otitis media in a six-month-old baby.

Symptoms of otitis media in six-month-old babies

1. Systemic symptoms:

The severity varies. There may be chills, fever, fatigue, and loss of appetite. Children have more severe systemic symptoms, often accompanied by vomiting, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms. Once the eardrum is perforated, the body temperature gradually drops and systemic symptoms are significantly alleviated.

2. Earache:

Pain deep in the ear that gradually worsens. If the pain is throbbing or stabbing, it may radiate to the same side of the head or teeth. The ear pain worsens when swallowing and coughing. Those with severe ear pain cannot sleep at night and feel irritable and restless. After the eardrum was perforated and pus was discharged, the ear pain was relieved suddenly.

3. Ear discharge:

It is the main symptom of this disease. It may be mucous, mucopurulent or pure purulent. The non-dangerous type of pus discharge is thinner and has no odor. Although the dangerous type of pus discharge is not much, it is thicker, mostly pure purulent, and accompanied by a foul odor.

4. Hearing loss and tinnitus:

You start to feel stuffy in your ears, followed by a gradual decrease in hearing, accompanied by tinnitus. For those with severe ear pain, deafness can be ignored. Some patients may also have vertigo, and the deafness may be alleviated after perforation.

5. Deafness: The severity of deafness varies, but it is often a single-ear disease and can be easily overlooked. This type of deafness is often proportional to the progression of the disease. That is, the more severe the lesion, the more severe the deafness. It is generally conductive deafness.

6. Acute suppurative otitis media:

In the early stage, the patient feels stuffy in the ears, hearing loss gradually occurs, and there is tinnitus. Before the eardrum is perforated, in addition to severe ear pain, there are also chills, fever, etc. When the eardrum is perforated, the pain suddenly eases, but pus flows from the middle ear into the external auditory canal, and typical symptoms of ear discharge appear. It is initially bloody and purulent, and later turns into pus.

7. Chronic suppurative otitis media:

It manifests as intermittent pus discharge, which may be mucous, sticky, or sticky and smelly. The pus discharge from cholesteatoma otitis media is continuous, the amount is small, and it has a putrid odor. The pus is mixed with bean dregs-like or onion-skin-like secretions. This is called cholesteatoma.

This article introduces in detail some symptoms of otitis media. Once these symptoms appear in a child, it often means that the child may have otitis media. Children suffering from otitis media must be treated actively, and mothers must take their babies to the doctor for treatment in time.