Ear Infection

EAR INFECTIONS Infections of the ear are the most prevalent diagnosed disease among children in the United States. When talking about child’s safety, it’s their health that counts most due to their numerous exposures to the environment harboring germs and the likes. Ensuring that we care for our children’s ear is very vital not just on looks in their physical composure but also the well-being attributed to their language improvements, academic excellence among other. The nature by which the ear works has a vital explanation on the effect of how an ear infection occurs. Our ear consists of the three regions namely; the outer ear, middle ear, and the inner most ear. The prevalent ear infections cases among children happen in the middle ear. This middle ear infection is termed ‘otitis media’. In our middle ear region we could finds the following:
Tympanic membrane, also known as the ear drum ( a very thin membrane which …show more content…
Whenever a child get colder, that is to say upper respiratory infection, extrusion in the throat causes a stoppage in the Eustachian tube, thereby holding back fluid inside the middle ear. Viruses and mostly bacteria could grow immensely in this fluid and make up pressure that my pushes against the ear drum. Pains, difficulty in hearing, plugged ears are then felts as results of the pressure exerted. Middle ear infection with so much felt pains is termed acute otitis media. Vomiting, dysentery, mild to moderate hearing loss, fever and feeling very tired are all symptoms of acute otitis media (AOM). In many instances, fluids stays in the middle ear after the feelings of pain most have faded away. Children could have fluid in their middle ear without necessarily having acute otitis media (AOM). Fluid found in the ear with no acute signs is termed otitis media with effusion (OME) which could endure form days to even