What are otitis media and tinnitus? Causes of otitis media and tinnitus?

Tinnitus is very uncomfortable. I feel a murmur all the time around my ears, even pain. Now more and more people are suffering from otitis media. Otitis media seems to be a common disease, but once it recurs, it will be very uncomfortable. Otitis media can also have symptoms of tinnitus. What is otitis media and tinnitus? Causes of otitis media and tinnitus?

1. What are otitis media and tinnitus?

The most common symptom of otitis media is tinnitus, such as ear tightness or blockage. Most patients are low-key intermittent, such as buzzing sound of running water, which often happens after a cold or unconsciously.

Patients' hearing will improve when they turn their heads, so if only one ear has otitis media, it is usually not easy to be detected.

2. Causes of otitis media and tinnitus

The reason why patients with otitis media will have tinnitus is because when otitis media will have conductive hearing loss, the intensity of environmental noise will be relatively reduced, and the normal masking effect is small, so tinnitus will occur.

In addition, if otitis media causes damage to the inner ear, high-profile tinnitus will also occur.

3. The harm of otitis media and tinnitus

1. Tinnitus can make people upset and fidgety, especially in the dead of night, and they can't sleep for a long time. Poor rest can cause dizziness, fatigue and other discomfort.

2. If tinnitus caused by otitis media is not treated promptly and effectively, the condition will lead to hearing loss to a certain extent, such as sensorineural deafness, and even irreversible deafness symptoms.

4. What about otitis media and tinnitus?

If tinnitus is caused by otitis media, we must take symptomatic care to relieve tinnitus in time.

1. Daily life care: strengthen ear care in daily life and clean up pus in ear canal in time. It is suggested to clean the external auditory canal with hydrogen peroxide and important lotion.

2. Pay attention to adjust the work rhythm, and don't be too tired, because long-term work stress, mood and insomnia will also aggravate the symptoms of tinnitus.

3. Middle-aged female otitis media patients should also pay attention to endocrine conditioning to avoid endocrine disorders aggravating tinnitus symptoms.

4. For patients with tinnitus, we should also pay attention to reducing the stimulation of noise, don't wear headphones to listen to music for a long time, and reduce the long stay in noisy casinos.

(1) Flos Lonicerae 30g, Radix Glycyrrhizae 10g, decocted, daily 1 dose, for 3-4 days.

(2) 30g of dandelion, 30g of plantain and 30g of viola yedoensis, 65438 0 doses per day, and decocted for 3 times for 3-4 days.

(3) Flos Chrysanthemi Indici 12g, Flos Malvae 10g, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae 15g, Rhizoma Alismatis 15g, and Herba Hedyotidis Diffusae 30g, and decocted twice.

(4) 65,438+0 cloves of garlic and 65,438+00 ml of distilled water. Wash and mash garlic, make juice with distilled water, and drip it into ears several times a day, 65,438+0 times in total. This prescription is suitable for otitis media, especially suppurative otitis media.

5. Complications of otitis media

What complications does chronic suppurative otitis media have? Simply put, it can be divided into extracranial complications and intracranial complications.

Extracranial complications (1)

1. Various abscesses, such as retroauricular subperiosteal abscess, temporal subperiosteal abscess, posterior wall abscess of external auditory canal, etc. After the abscess appears, a soft lump, redness, severe pain and high fever can be felt locally. If not treated in time, the abscess will spread to the neck, causing pain when the neck rotates, and in severe cases, it will destroy the great blood vessels in the neck and lead to death.

2, facial paralysis, facial nerve is very close to the middle ear cavity, if damaged, it will cause mouth and eyes to be skewed.

3, labyrinthitis, if inflammation invades inward, entering the inner ear will cause labyrinthitis, leading to dizziness, nausea and vomiting.

(2) Damage to the brain

(1) Otitis media can be divided into suppurative and non-suppurative, and chronic suppurative otitis media can be divided into simple, cholesteatoma and osteomyelitis. Generally speaking, non-suppurative otitis media and simple suppurative otitis media are relatively safe without serious complications. However, cholesteatoma type and osteomyelitis type can have various complications, and if it is intracranial complications, it will be very harmful.

(2) Even the latter two kinds of otitis media, as long as they are treated by early surgery, there will be no intracranial complications and no harm to the brain.

The reason why cholesteatoma otitis media and osteomyelitis otitis media have complications is that the top wall of the middle ear is called the tympanum cover, and the tympanum is separated from the temporal lobe of the middle cranial fossa by this thin bone wall, and the posterior wall of the mastoid is close to the cerebellum by the sigmoid bone plate. Both kinds of otitis media have factors that erode and destroy bones. Once the bone wall is corroded, infection can enter the skull through this, causing inflammation outside the meninges, meninges and brain parenchyma, and limiting the formation of abscess. The common ones are temporal lobe abscess and cerebellar abscess. This complication is very serious. If not treated in time, brain hernia or abscess may break into the ventricle, causing ventriculitis and fulminant diffuse meningitis and leading to death.