Catarrhal otitis is an inflammation of a middle ear. Very often children as they have a short and wide ear trumpet are subject to it - bacteria get to it easier and quicker infections develop. Generally catarrhal otitis develops against the background of the catarrhal or viral diseases which are followed by inflammation mucous, existence of allocations from a nose, increase in tonsils and adenoides.
The child is hurt by an ear
Symptoms of catarrhal (average) otitis can be distinguished easily - the child can be capricious, it lifts temperature, he begins to finger a sore ear or to put to it a palm, when pressing acoustical pass feels pain and begins to cry. If you understood that the child is hurt by an ear, then as soon as possible go to the doctor as otitis has to be treated only under observation of the ENT specialist. At the correct treatment there are no complications, inflammation takes place, the eardrum is quickly recovered. Incorrectly treatment can lead to development of purulent otitis, decrease in hearing, transition of a disease to a chronic form.
Otitis very often arises at small children as a complication after a catarrhal disease.
Treatment of catarrhal otitis
At treatment of catarrhal otitis the doctors appoint drops in an ear and in a nose, the warming compresses, febrifugal (if at the child temperature is increased) and in certain cases physiotherapy (warming up and a blue lamp). Catarrhal otitis can be cured also without antibiotic, it is appointed generally at purulent otitis - when from an ear pus and liquid and also to children up to two years flows.
Do not self-medicate as the wrong treatment can lead to serious problems with hearing.
The main thing in treatment of otitis is parallel treatment of cold as it most often becomes the cause of pain in ears. Therefore before digging in drops in ears, it is necessary to clean a nose from allocations, having washed with its sea water, then to dig vasoconstrictive drops in both nostrils to remove hypostasis from mucous. After that it is possible to drip drops in ears. To children at catarrhal otitis generally appoint drops of "Otipaks" - they kill pain and inflammation. It is necessary to drip them three times a day. Correctly to dig drops in ears, it is necessary to put the child on a bed in situation on one side. Having dug one ear, it is necessary to stop up acoustical pass with a cotton plait, to wait 3 minutes that drops got more deeply. Then it is necessary to dig the second ear (if it hurts too) and also to wait 3 minutes. After that the child can get out of a bed. Cotton wool from ears should be taken out 15-20 minutes later. You should not keep cotton wool in fish soup long - it has to dry out. If ear pain strong and the child cries, it is possible to give it the febrifugal medicine "Nurofen" which possesses the anesthetizing action. So you alleviate suffering of the child. During treatment of otitis you should not bathe the child, and in the first weeks after recovery it is recommended to close during adoption of water procedures the hurting ear the cotton wool moistened in vegetable oil to secure it against water ingress.