tubo-otitis
Tubo-otitis (syn .: evstahiit) - inflammation of the auditory (Eustachian) tube.
Acute tubo-otitis develops in the propagation of the inflammatory process of the nasal cavity and nasopharynx to the mucosa of the auditory tube, especially in acute respiratory diseases. There is a sudden: marked congestion, sometimes noise in the patient's ear, hearing loss, syringmus, sometimes feeling of transfusion fluid in the ear.
Treatment is directed at the underlying disease and the restoration of drainage and ventilation function of Eustachian tube. A nose buried vasoconstrictor solution (2% solution naftizina, epinephrine solution 1:. 1000 and others), use dry heat, physical therapy procedures, such as UHF-therapy.
In some cases, against the background of acute tubootitis may develop a chronic inflammatory process that much more difficult to treat, often accompanied by atrophic and sclerotic changes of the eardrum and persistent auditory tube stenosis. For chronic tubootitis characterized by the same symptoms as for the acute process, but they are preserved for a longer time. In the treatment of used catheterization auditory tube, blowing ear.
In order to prevent tubootitis and its complications can not be allowed to work in conditions of atmospheric pressure variations (flying service, coffered and diving work, diving) persons with insufficient function of the Eustachian tube.
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