Precautions for otitis media

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Uncle has been suffering from otitis media for several years. He said that his ears are always itchy and his head is still stuffy. I didn't go to the hospital before. This time, I took him to the hospital for good treatment. After treatment, I got a lot better. Now let's share the precautions for otitis media.

Precautions for otitis media

Note 1: develop correct medical habits, follow the guidance and treatment of otolaryngologists, and never make your own decisions. If you think that the symptoms have been reduced, you should stop taking drugs and stop treatment, so that the disease will become chronic or produce side effects.

Note 2: Patients with otitis media should keep the peace of the surrounding environment, do not exercise too much, do not play the flute and balloon, gargle at any time, keep oral hygiene, try to breathe with the nose, sleep with the sick ear down when lying on the side, do not blow the nose too hard, and appropriate exercise can also help the nasal canal and eustachian tube smooth, maintain the excretion and ventilation function of the middle ear.

Note 3: daily exercise, improve the ability to resist disease, and actively prevent and treat upper respiratory tract infection. Do not use hard objects to remove the ear to avoid damage to the eardrum. Patients with old tympanic membrane perforation or tympanic catheterization were temporarily unable to swim.

matters needing attention

For this disease: otitis media can also lead to cancer, become middle ear cancer. Experts said that the clinical symptoms of middle ear cancer include persistent earache, tinnitus, hard of hearing, severe radiation to the face, temporal or mastoid, efflux of stench, bloody secretion, and new tissue in the ear. This is often because patients with otitis media complicated with cholesteatoma or mastoiditis after no timely treatment, as time goes by, it worsens into cancer. Therefore, patients must pay attention.