Showing posts with label otitis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label otitis. Show all posts

5/20/2008

The ear pain

The hearing is one of our more sensitive senses, for that that generally when you are affected, signals like the pain or otalgia, the itch, supuración, redness of the skin, decrease of the hearing, dizziness or alteration of the balance take place.

As for the same pain of the hearing, you don't owe you totally to the ullage of hygiene or the bacteria that you/they have entered in him. You are a multiplicity of factors that you/they can originate auditory affections in the external, half and interior conduit of the hearing.

Here we count you which the most frequent are.

The water:
The entry of liquid to the auditory external channel, especially in summer due to the piletas or beaches, you generate a favorable field for the multiplication of germs whose result is the pileta" "otitis. In winter they appear the otitis for allergy to cosmetic products as the shampoo, the soap, the bathroom lotions, among other.
The treatment in this instance, consists in the usage of antibiotics and anti-inflammatory, with daily sessions of cleaning of the affected field. You also owe you, to avoid the entry of the shampoo until you recover the hearing.

The presence of foreign bodies:
To the foreign bodies to those that refer, are to the insects, cotton and wax. You are a very particular case, but it can be given if an accident takes place where some element is embedded, for non higienizarse appropriately, for excessive production of wax, etc.
Here the important thing is that the physician is able to extract the embedded object with supreme care, and by means of the appropriate form according to the object type of the one that are.

Infections in the auditory half channel:
The good known ones are those that cause "otitis stockings", very habitual in the boys, where the germ is inserted by the air channels of the hearing and you arrive until the half part. They show up next to processes like the rinitis or the one catches a cold.
The treatment in these cases is by means of the use of antibiotics during 7 to 10 days. In some cases, associated with anti-inflammatory oral. Drops since these are not used they only attack the most external problems. In the most serious cases, irreversible damages can take place.

Perforation of the eardrum:
Due to a blow, to sound the nose in an excessive way, for a half otitis, or for variations of pressure.
This should talk to a surgical intervention in most of the cases.

Injure of the semicircular channels:
This produces the well-known syndrome of "Meniere (vertigos)."
You are through special therapies that can contemplate emission of ultrasounds and surgery.

3/03/2008

Otitis

The otitis is the illness more common of the hearing and you are about the inflammation of the same one that can affect the extraneous part, you mediate or you confine of this organ. According to the sector that the same one affects, the denomination of the otitis class that show up.

In the case of the extraneous otitis, they are represented by the processes that affect the pavilion headphone and the conduit extraneous aiditivu. They are characterized by the appearance of intense pain, particularly when pressing or to move the pavilion headphone, and even when making movements with the mouth: to masticate, to swallow, etc.

As you are bigger or pettier the grade of the inflammation that affect the external auditory canal, the otitis can go accompanied by a certain grade of deafness, caused by the inflammation experienced by the walls of the conduit that obstruído appears.

If the inflammatory process advances, despés will appear the supuración that one manifests for a serosity and even for true pus that fill the external auditory canal and you ooze for him, staining the patient in this case the pillow, as well as the hair or the cotton pellets that usually arrange in the entry of this conduit and that frequently they forget there, transforming then into a foreign body with the complications that such a status can carry.

Now then, the otitis stockings, like you indicate your name, they are those that affect the half hearing. They can be classified in two big groups: acute and chronic. In first o'clock, that is to say the acute ones, the predominant symptoms are the pain and the deafness, accompanied in many occasions of fever; they can also show up acúfenos or buzzes of hearing of different type (beeps of type pulsátil, whistles, stream of vapor, etc.), as well as, not always, a sensation of instability or slight insecurity that it constitute the symptom called vertigo.

The half acute otitis, if you are not quickly, you will produce supuración and, like in some extraneous otitis, you also here flow of the extraneous hearing a white xanthic liquid that stain the cottons and the pillow.

The leading cause of this supuracuión resides in a nasal infection that for via tubal, that is to say, for the Eustachian tube that communicate the nasal graves with the tympanic box or half hearing, it is transmitted at this last. The appearance of this supuración indicates that the drum membrane or eardrum that it are kind of a diaphragm that separate the extraneous hearing of the half hearing, have been perforated, and you are then, in general, when the acute pain that the patient entered usually disappears.

The otitis interns, they also receive the laberinitis name, since in this case the inflammation resides in the interior hearing or labyrinth. In general they constitute a sequel of the otitis stockings festered chronicles, to those that when not being treated properly, they affect the interior hearing. Your main symptoms are: the supuración, the deafness, the hearing buzzes and the vertigo.

12/07/2007

Rinitis

The word rinitis (of the Greek "rhin-rhinos" nose and the suffix "itis" inflammation), designates the inflammation of the mucosa of the graves named nasal pituitaries.

He/she can have several origins or lawsuits, I eat the common cold for example. He/she shows up especially in the cold times of year, being one of their symptoms the rinorrea (or exit of mucosities more or less flowing of the nose), accompanied by sneezes, of nasal (difficulty in breathing through the nasal graves) obstruction, and of discreet (headache) migraine. He/she can also appear during some days, a decrease of the capacity olfatoria, as well as something of fever.

The box, in general, lacks importance and it is enough, of not arising complications, the management of analgesic drugs, antitérmicos, bedrest and the application of some preparation in the nasal graves, either moderate and suspended so soon they waive the acute symptoms of the coriza, because habit and being can create then detrimental. In the event of not to waive the acute box in a few days or to suspect the appearance of complications, the revision is imposed on the part of the physician.

Although, inside the rinitis, the acute coriza is the most current form, other varieties that obey other lawsuits exist and that they are more important. One of the most frequent is the allergic coriza, of origin polínico, that is to say, the patient in this case is sensitive to the pollen of having determined plants; the most communio form is the call fever of the hay.

But they are not only the pólenes those producing of such cortizas, but rather a person can be allergic to chemical, textile, alimentary, bacterial products, to the domestic powder, etc. In these cases, the sick persons see each other suddenly affected by a sternutatory crisis, accompanied by nasal abundant secretion, I shed tears and breathing difficulty. It is imposed a revision then thoroughly on the part of the otorhinolaryngologist and even of the allergist with the purpose of attempting the search of the call alérgeno, unchaining factor of the box.

The acute rinitis acquires capital importance in the infant, because the boy, when having clogged up the nasal graves, he/she cannot breathe in the moment of the suction and bad taking the chest or the baby bottle. Separate their repercussion in channels more low, this respiratory rinitis, for the vicinity of the hearing, it can meet in the otitis. It is this case, the boy it should become under the pediatrician's cares. It is very important not to instill drops without discrimination, because those that are suitable for an adult are contraindicated for the infant. This rinitis type hardly ever studies alone, but rather he/she goes accompanied by the encumbrance of those fleshy formations located behind the nose and that we name adenoid that frequently should be medically or to proceed to its surgical extirpation.