Otorrhea

Description:

Otorrhea conditionally call a state at which of an ear various liquids are allocated or follow.
Allocations can be:

    * transparent;
    * bloody;
    * purulent;
    * seryozno-hemorrhagic.

Otorrhea symptoms:

Correctly to define the otorrhea reason, it is necessary to consider duration, degree and the general nature of allocations.

Problem source – the central nervous system.

Epidural abscess. Nature of allocations: similar to cream. Are followed by the increased body temperature, the shooting ear pain and on temples.

Fracture of base of the skull:

    * Nature of allocations: transparent, watery: effluence of cerebrospinal fluid;
    * Bloody: hemorrhage.

Problem source – diseases of ears, throats, a nose, eyes.

Dermatitis of the outside ear channel. Nature of allocations: transparent, watery. Is followed by hypostasis of the external channel of an ear.

Auricle polyp. Nature of allocations: purulent, sometimes with blood and an unpleasant smell.

Infectious dermatitis. Nature of allocations: purulent. Are followed by emergence of crusts in an external ear.

Seborrheal dermatitis. Nature of allocations: similar to fat flakes.

Mastoiditis. Nature of allocations: yellow, dense, purulent.

Outside otitis:

    * Acute (swimmer's ear). Nature of allocations: yellow, dense, purulent, with an unpleasant smell.
    * Chronic. Nature of allocations: scanty, purulent or serous.

Average otitis:

    * Acute. Nature of allocations: bloody, purulent. Are followed by ear pain.
    * Chronic. Nature of allocations: purulent, with an unpleasant smell.

Perichondritis. Nature of allocations: purulent.

Tuberculosis. Nature of allocations: watery. Sopovozhdatsya by a partial hearing loss.

Tumor:

    * High-quality. Nature of allocations: bloody.
    * Malignant. Nature of allocations: purulent. Are followed by an itch.

Allergy. Nature of allocations: transparent or muddy.

Injury. Nature of allocations: in the form of bleeding, average or weak.

Otorrhea reasons:

Release of liquid of their ears can appear owing to a number of the cause among which there are diseases of an outside or middle ear, an infection, an injury, a tumor. The otorrhea can be shown as the individual phenomenon, or to have something in common with other palologichesky states, for example, an otalgia.

Treatment of the Otorrhea:

    * To cure an otorrhea, the doctor has to see a case history of the patient and examine his ears.
    * Then the analysis of allocations is made of an ear (crops, cytology).
    * Ear drops.
    * According to the recommendation of the otolaryngologist – warm wet compresses, applying of a hot-water bottle to an ear.
    * It is recommended not to blow nose strainedly, and only serially on the one hand, opening a mouth.
    * For clarification of ears – warm wet napkins.
    * Before full healing it is necessary to wash under a shower with a cotton plug in ears.