Personal Narrative: The 7 Major Ear Infections

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“Same. The doctors gave me some wonder pills and now I feel no pain at all.”

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ear infections (American Academy of Otolaryngology). There are antibiotics for these diseases, but over the years they have been becoming more resistant.

. This patient has acute otitis media (AOM), which is an infection of the middle ear and presents with signs and symptoms of inflammation such as otalgia, redness, and swelling of ear mucosa. It is important to distinguish it from otitis media with effusion (OME), defined as the presence of non-infectious fluid in the middle ear with no accompanying signs and symptoms of inflammation. The diagnosis of AOM is through pneumatic otoscopy in search of inflamed mucosa, purulent discharge, and poor mobility of the tympanic membrane. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of uncomplicated AOM in children aged 6 months through 12 years is as

“What happened?” the doctor asked. In response, she motioned her hand back and forth. Nodding, the doctor gently examined the wound, careful to not induce additional pain.

Peter was born after an uneventful pregnancy and weighed 3.1kg. At 3 months, he developed otitis media and an upper respiratory tract infection. At the ages of 5 months and 11 months, he was admitted to hospital with Haemophilus influenzae pneumonia. The infections responded promptly to the appropriate antibiotics on each occasion. He is the fourth child of unrelated parents: his three sisters show no predisposition to infection.

Hearing loss can be caused by congenital defect or acquired illness or accidents. In order to simulate people with hearing loss, I wore earplugs for 8 hours last Saturday to experience their feeling. Even though earplugs have pretty good sound insulation, my experience was still a little better than those people with hearing loss because I could hear my voice clearly when talking to others. Except this little pity, it was a special day for me. It happened from that morning.

I was sore everywhere. I could barely move. The doctor runs inside moving his fingers in front of my face. I follow them then blink a couple of times.

Infection of the middle ear has been a problem encountered in the human race, it is as old as humanity itself (Smyth, 1976).

My urine was still cloudy this morning. Feeling weak and doing a lot of puffing.

In discussing otitis externa, the diagnosis can be explained by misdiagnosis. Some patients are diabetic immunocompromised with severe pain in the ear should have necrotizing OE excluded by an otolaryngologist. Otitis externa is an inflammation or infection of the external auditory canal, the auricle, or both. It is a common disease that can be found in all age groups. OE usually represents an acute bacterial infection of the skin of the ear canal (most commonly attributable to Pseudomonas aeruginosa or staphylococcus aureus, but can also be caused by other bacteria, viruses, or a fungal infection. Several factors can contribute EAC infection and development of OE, include the following, absence of cerumen, high humidity, retained

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Otitis media, otherwise known as an ear infection, is a very common occurrence in children seven months up to fifteen years of age. Specifically, this type of ear infection is categorized as an inflammation of the middle ear, and subcategorized into either acute otitis or chronic otitis media. It begins with a bacterial or viral infection from the throat that spreads into the ear, causing a fluid backup in the middle part of the ear. “It is estimated that, by the time they reach two years of age, all the children in the United States currently under that age will have had a total of 9.3 million episodes of acute otitis media, and that approximately 17 percent of children have three or more episodes during a six-month period (Berman 1995).

Patient had a history of numerous ear infections as a child more around the age of three. Treatment for the infections was a surgical