This reference guide contains highlights from the Clinical Practice Guideline, Otitis Media with Effusion in Young Children. The Otitis Media Guideline Panel, a private-sector panel of health care providers, developed the Guideline after comprehensively analyzing the research literature and current scientific knowledge of the development, diagnosis, and treatment of otitis media with effusion i...

This reference guide contains highlights from the Clinical Practice Guideline, Otitis Media with Effusion in Young Children. The Otitis Media Guideline Panel, a private-sector panel of health care providers, developed the Guideline after comprehensively analyzing the research literature and current scientific knowledge of the development, diagnosis, and treatment of otitis media with effusion i...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the occurrence of and associations between upper respiratory tract infections in preschool children, and to assess constitutional and environmental factors as determinants of these infections. DESIGN Population-based cross-sectional study. SETTING Oslo, Norway. PARTICIPANTS Preschool children, aged 4 to 5 years (3853 completed questionnaires). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE...

Otitis media is an infection or inflammation of the middle ear. This inflammation often begins when infections that cause sore throats, colds, or other respiratory or breathing problems spread to the middle ear. These can be viral or bacterial infections. Seventy-five percent of children experience at least one episode of otitis media by their third birthday. Almost half of these children will ...

Acute otitis media refers to inflammation of the middle ear of rapid onset presenting with local symptoms, the most common being earache and rubbing or tugging of the affected ear and systemic signs such as fever, irritability and poor sleep. Acute otitis media may be caused by viral or bacterial pathogens. The commonest viral pathogens are Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Adenovirus and Influenza ...

UNLABELLED Some studies indicate a bilateral tendency of chronic otitis media. It is believed that the contralateral ear can provide evidences of the route of formation of ear disease in the most affected, be a parameter of Eustachian tube function and predict successful treatment. The CT scan is an excellent test to evaluate the structures of the temporal bone and the changes resulting from ot...

Some specific management options to treat and prevent otitis media and certain related conditions are related to Eustachian tube dysfunction, whereas others are not. An understanding of the role that tubal dysfunction plays in the currently available nonsurgical and surgical options can be helpful not only in the decision-making process to treat or not to treat but also the reasons for complica...

BACKGROUND Tympanometry can indicate middle ear effusion in children referred for tympanostomy tube placement. In outpatient setting, objective adjunctive tools are needed to diagnose the otitis media spectrum. METHODS We enrolled and followed 515 children aged 6-35 months at primary care level. We compared tympanometry with pneumatic otoscopy and evaluated the proportions of type A, C1, C2, ...

OBJECTIVES To find out the prevalence of otitis media in school going children from lower socio-economic strata. MATERIAL AND METHODS This study was carried out in a government school, Shree Naragram Secondary School in Morang district, eastern Nepal, and included 1050 children aged between 5-15 years. RESULTS Of the 1050 school children, 346 children were found to have various ENT related ...