Symptoms and clinical manifestations of otitis externa

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Many people don't know about otitis externa, so the symptoms of the disease are not clear. When it attacks, the patients don't know what happened to them. Our understanding of otitis externa disease is limited, and the cause of otitis externa disease is not particularly clear. In view of the great harm caused by otitis externa to the patient's body, let's understand the symptoms and clinical manifestations of otitis externa

Symptoms and clinical manifestations of otitis externa

1. Necrotizing otitis externa is a special kind of diffuse otitis externa. It often causes osteomyelitis of the external auditory canal, and extensive progressive necrosis, which can lead to osteomyelitis of the temporal bone and skull, and complicated with multiple nerve paralysis. Among them, facial nerve paralysis is the most common, so it is called "malignant otitis externa". Actually, it is not. Most of the patients with malignant tumors are the elderly and patients with diabetes, The pathogen is usually Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In severe cases, the infection can invade the infratemporal fossa, and also cause meningitis, brain abscess, brain softening and death.

2. Acute diffuse otitis externa has a burning sensation in the ear at the initial stage of the disease. With the development of the disease, the ear swells and the pain intensifies gradually. There is secretion outflow from the external auditory canal. At the initial stage, it is thin secretion, which gradually thickens into purulent.

4. External auditory canal furuncle, early severe ear pain, mouth chewing aggravation, and can radiate to the ipsilateral head, more general discomfort, body temperature, or can slightly increase the furuncle blockage, external auditory canal tinnitus and ear stuffy, examination of auricle traction pain, and tragus tenderness, cartilage of external auditory canal, skin limited, red abscess, mature after ulceration, abscess blood in the external auditory canal, Or out of the ear, at this time, the earache is alleviated, and the posterior wall of the external auditory canal is swollen, which can make the retroauricular groove and mastoid area red and swollen, and it is easy to be misdiagnosed as mastoiditis.

matters needing attention

Keep the external auditory canal clean and dry to avoid skin damage. Don't put water into the ear canal. Treat it actively. Establish good hygiene and eating habits. We must correct the bad habit of ear tapping. Swimming must be prohibited during treatment. But you can take part in some activities appropriately. Collect this page and subscribe to mailbox