Eustachyte - treatment will prevent complications

Very often in childhood in young patients with the emergence of infectious inflammatory diseases of the upper respiratory tract and the nasal cavity, eustachiitis occurs, the treatment of which, begun at an early stage of the disease, will prevent the development of deafness. In general, eustachiitis is an acute or chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane of the auditory tube that connects the middle ear and pharyngeal cavity, and a change in the level of pressure in it plays a huge role in the correct transmission of sound.

To provoke the appearance of acute and chronic inflammation, any violation of the patency of the auditory tube and the resulting disturbances of normal ventilation of the tympanum (middle ear cavity) can occur. It should be remembered that the cause of the disease may become mechanical obstacles that disrupt the ventilation function of the inner auditory tube - in the vast majority of cases, adenoid growths in the nasopharynx, hypertrophy of nasal congestion, nasopharyngeal tumors are complicated by eustachitis, whose treatment will be successful only if the provoking cause is eliminated. Special attention should be paid to the inflammation of the auditory tube, which occurs when there is a sharp drop in pressure in the tympanum - in this case, a traumatic eustachiitis also appears, the treatment of which should be aimed at the complex elimination of the effects of barotrauma.

Main symptoms

In the overwhelming majority of cases, patients complain of a sharp decrease in hearing - a one-sided violation of sound perception makes it possible to suspect exactly eustachyte. Symptoms of the disease can be manifested in the stuffiness of the ear, a sudden feeling of overflow in the ear or a feeling of a fluid transfusion. In addition, the sound of one's own voice begins to seem strange to most patients - an autophony occurs, the voice resonates in the ear on the side of the lesion.

In those cases when treatment of eustachyte at this stage is not appointed, with the further impact of provoking factors, the disease sooner or later passes into a chronic stage - but the manifestations of inflammation of the auditory tube are always accompanied by symptoms of chronic otitis media. In patients, the hearing on the affected ear decreases sharply, and the susceptibility of low sounds is disturbed earlier than the perception of high frequency sounds.

Eustachyte Treatment

In the event that a patient is diagnosed with eustachiosis, treatment should be comprehensive and consistent.

Strangely enough, if the diagnosis is acute eustachyte, the patient's treatment should begin with an explanation of the elementary rules of hygiene of the nasopharynx. The patient needs to be taught to properly clean the nasal passages - to lean forward at the pointing out and gently clean each and every half of the nose in turn. It is also important to observe the rules of hygiene with a sudden change in pressure in the cavity of the middle ear - in any flight, riding a carousel, immersing in water at great depth.

When symptoms of the disease appear, it is important to prescribe antiallergic medications in a timely manner - they will reduce the swelling of the mucous membrane, while remembering that the dose of the drug and the order of its intake should be selected only by the doctor. In some cases, it is necessary to prescribe antihistamines of the first generation (Tavegil, Suprastin, Diazolin) - despite the side effects, these drugs start to act faster than the second-generation prolonged drugs.

Vasodilating drops also have anti-edematous action, but it must be remembered that these drugs often cause addiction development and patients have to constantly increase the dose of the drug. If necessary, antibacterial drugs may be added to the treatment of eustachiitis - this is especially important in the development of chronic eustachiitis, which occurs together with chronic otitis media. In some cases, antibiotics are given topically, in some cases, if there are foci of chronic infection in the nasopharynx, a systemic administration of a wide-spectrum antibiotic is necessary.

To improve the condition of the tympanic membrane and the drainage function of the inner auditory tube, it is shown that the eardrum pneumomassage, blowing of the auditory tubes, physiotherapeutic measures aimed at treating the underlying cause of eustachyte are shown.