What to do if the ear is inflamed?

Inflammation of the ear is what we call otitis media. Although it is a very common disease, it is still very harmful and can cause severe pain and tinnitus. To treat otitis media, you can choose Western medicine or traditional Chinese medicine. Severe cases require surgery.

1. Traditional Western medicine treatment. Traditional Western medicine treatment can effectively relieve symptoms and quickly control the disease. However, although it works quickly, it cannot cure the disease, and Western medicine has great side effects and can cause certain damage to the kidneys, liver and even the heart. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment has few side effects and does not cause much harm to the body. But the disadvantage is that the course of TCM treatment is relatively long and the effect is usually not very good. And if otitis media is not treated promptly, it will seriously damage hearing, so traditional Chinese medicine treatment also has unavoidable disadvantages.

2. Clear the accumulated fluid. Depending on the patient's condition, we use different surgical methods. We can use tympanostomy, myringotomy, and tympanostomy tube placement to achieve the treatment goal. If we want to keep the nasal cavity and Eustachian tube open, we can use the Eustachian tube insufflator, pinch nose inflation method, Bosch ball method or catheter method to do so.

3. Actively treat nasal diseases. We can use methods such as adenoidectomy, nasal septum correction, inferior turbinate surgery, nasal polypectomy, etc. to treat the disease. For some patients with particularly enlarged tonsils and recurring secretory otitis media, we should perform tonsillectomy, which is also a good treatment method. Antibiotic treatment. We can use antibiotics to treat otitis media, or use other synthetic antibacterial drugs.

4. Tympanoplasty surgery. Tympanoplasty is a surgery that can effectively treat middle ear lesions and reconstruct the sound transmission structure of the tympanic cavity. The purpose is to remove the lesions, repair the tympanic membrane and reconstruct the ossicular chain to achieve the purpose of improving hearing. At present, the hospital has successfully performed more than 1,000 operations such as tympanoplasty and hearing reconstruction for ear diseases, achieving good treatment results, bringing health benefits to patients with ear diseases, and gaining high praise from many cured patients.

5. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment has few side effects and does not cause much harm to the body. But the disadvantage is that the course of TCM treatment is relatively long and the effect is usually not very good. And if otitis media is not treated promptly, it will seriously damage hearing, so traditional Chinese medicine treatment also has unavoidable disadvantages.