The ear is a complex organ that is not only responsible for sound perception, but is also the main one in the vestibular apparatus. A person's motor function may be impaired due to some of their diseases.
Ear diseases can be inflammatory, fungal and traumatic (common in athletes). More than others, otitis media (internal, external, middle) has spread.
Ear diseases most often occur as a result of infectious and viral diseases. Otitis is manifested by a pronounced suppuration in one of the sections of the hearing aid, the formation of boils. It can affect the body and completely. There are acute and chronic forms of this ear disease. Symptoms, noticed in a timely manner, make it possible to start treating otitis at an early stage and get rid of the inflammatory process quickly and without further relapses. In the case of a neglected disease, the process can go into a chronic stage.
Inflammation of the external ear manifests itself in the form of pain and itching. Sometimes hearing gets worse. If athe inflammation is very strong, the auricle turns red, and suppuration appears on it.
An advanced stage of otitis media can damage the eardrum. When the inflammatory process covers the inner ear, the body temperature rises, and audibility deteriorates significantly. The patient at this time feels a "shooting" sharp pain. Exudative otitis causes purulent discharge. Signs of inflammation of the inner ear include dizziness, a sharp deterioration in hearing, the inability to focus vision at one point (“shifting” eyes).
Otitis from one part of the hearing aid can move to another. If you delay treatment and do not seek medical help in time, complications may follow. The development of meningitis, brain abscess and even blood poisoning are not excluded in this case.
Otitis media occurs as a result of infection with microbes from the nasal cavity during viral infections. If in this case no measures are taken to eliminate the disease, it can lead to facial paralysis.
It is not recommended to treat ear diseases on your own. Better to do this under the supervision of a qualified otolaryngologist. Patients are relieved from mild stages of inflammation on an outpatient basis, in polyclinics. Severe forms of the middle and inner ear are treated only in a hospital. Antibiotic susceptibility cultured beforehand
kam identified during microbiological studies of organisms. For any ear disease, treatment is prescribed only after this procedure. If the drumthe membrane protrudes sharply in acute otitis media, this is an indication for surgical intervention in order to create a channel for the outflow of purulent fluid.
There are still some other diseases of the ear - Meniere's disease, neuritis of the vestibulocochlear nerve. There is also a disease caused by the heredity of the organism - otosclerosis. It affects the bone capsule of the labyrinth. As a result, the disease leads to hearing loss.
