What Is Middle Ear Effusion?
Middle ear effusion is a common symptom of chronic otitis media. When the ear-to-throat pathway, the Eustachian tube, is blocked, the patient's secretions cannot flow through the ear cavity to the nasal cavity, but stay in the middle ear cavity, forming middle ear fluid.
Middle ear effusion
Right!- Chinese name
- Middle ear effusion
- Category
- Illness
- Belongs to
- Common symptoms of chronic otitis media
- main reason
- Pediatric Eustachian tubes are shorter than adults
- other reasons
- Pediatric cough and vomiting are prone to occur when children eat
- Middle ear effusion is a common symptom of chronic otitis media. When the ear-to-throat pathway, the Eustachian tube, is blocked, the patient's secretions cannot flow through the ear cavity to the nasal cavity, but stay in the middle ear cavity, forming middle ear effusion.
- Pathological cause
- Acute otitis media is more common in infants and young children, mainly because children's eustachian tubes are shorter and straighter than adults, and they are susceptible to respiratory diseases such as colds, which can cause inflammation of the eustachian tube. When bacteria enter the middle ear one step Otitis media. In addition, children are prone to choking and vomiting when eating, and food is also easy to enter the middle ear from the eustachian tube and cause inflammation.