Treatment of otitis in children at home

Otitis is a common inflammatory ear disease. Suffer, more often children under three years old. Sometimes it occurs after not cured cold, sometimes - itself, for no apparent reason.

When otitis can be treated at home

As with any disease, otitis hasseveral degrees of severity and occurs in different children in different ways. To understand whether it is possible to treat otitis media at home, without the help of a doctor, answer a few questions:

1. What is the temperature of the baby? If there is no strong increase( more than 38, 5 °) - you can not go to the hospital.
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2. General condition of the baby. Treatment of a home for children who do not tolerate the disease is unacceptable, because sometimes otitis gives a strong pain that is not taken off by analgesics.
3. What age? The smaller the child, the more he needs a specialist examination.

To determine the presence of otitis in a child up to a year - lightly push the tragus near the ear canal. If the action caused crying, the child has ear inflammation. But the exact diagnosis can be made only by a doctor with the help of an ear mirror!

The main rules for the treatment of otitis

If the otitis is mild - there are no indications for hospitalization of the child, you can safely treat it at home. For this, there are some mandatory rules:

1. Regardless of the age of a person, otitis treatment should be accompanied by bed rest. If the child is sick, try to keep him in bed as much as possible, resting.
2. Use dry heat. This will help the child to recover faster and facilitate the course of the disease.

Important: at elevated temperature, with purulent otitis heat and compresses do not use!

• give preference to treatment with natural, folk remedies. Herbal preparations are good;
• , begin treatment with otitis after curing rhinitis.

Treatment of otitis media should follow the standard procedure:

1. Ensure peace.
2. Take off the temperature( above 38, 5 °)
3. Anesthetics - analgesics.
4. Heating means, compresses.
5. Antiseptics - to combat microorganisms.
6. Antibiotics as indicated by the doctor.

Traditional medicine in the treatment of otitis

Essential oils of lavender, eucalyptus

For treatment in this way, you need to drop two drops of each oil into a bowl of boiled water. After that, cover your head with a towel and bend over the steam. It is important that as much as possible a couple enters into the ear. It is not superfluous to breathe fumes.

Garlic

Excellent handling of microbes. One of the good methods of treating otitis is the application of cooked peeled garlic to the ear canal. You can leave for the night, pre-covered with gauze or bandage and secured with adhesive tape.

White vinegar mixed with water in equal proportions

It relieves itching, reduces pain. To achieve the desired effect, a couple of drops dripped into the ear are enough. It is important to drip both ears, since the otitis is more often bilateral.

Drops from Mullein

• weld a decoction of Mullein flowers;
• should be mixed in equal proportions with olive oil;
• leave to stand for night.

The next morning you can dig in a few drops.

Tip! Dry mint leaves infused with vodka are buried in the diseased ear every 4-5 hours.

Raspberry root rasp

Will help with purulent otitis. To do this, three tablespoons of ground roots are poured with boiling water and let us brew. Drink every day, depending on the child's age( 100-600ml), for one month.

Bay leaf

One of the best remedies against otitis with purulent discharge is tincture from bay leaf. To do this, pour the crushed leaves with boiling water and insist until the water turns yellow. Dampen the cotton turunda and put it in your ear. Change every hour. As you recover, gradually reduce the number of such compresses.

Important! Onion juice, drenched in a sick ear - is an excellent tool that helps quickly.

Compress from baked onion

Has no restrictions in the age of the patient. For exercise, you need to put the warm baked onion in a cloth and put it to your ear before cooling down.

Aloe vera

Drip one drop into each ear canal. Repeat the procedure three times a day until recovery.

Warming the sick ear

1. The potatoes cooked in their uniforms work fine as dry heat. You can change often. Apply only through cloth.
2. The heated salt in a tissue bag is another version of a compress made of dry heat.
3. Sollux - well warms up and helps with nongovernmental forms of the disease.

Treatment of otitis with folk remedies can often be the only method of treatment, but in a more severe course, complicated by pain, temperature, it is necessary to use medicines offered by traditional medicine.

Drug medication for otitis

The first drug attributed to a doctor with ear inflammation is analgesics. The main goal is pain relief. For these purposes, you can use: Paracetamol, Ibuprofen, Aliv.

Important! Do not use aspirin to relieve pain in your baby! Scientists have proven his harmful effects and the ability to cause a dangerous disease - Reye.

Be sure to take care of anesthesia at night. Carefully study the instructions and give the tablets no more than the prescribed dose.

Use doctor's advice on special ear drops with antiseptic effect. They locally help the body to fight harmful bacteria, speeding up recovery.

If the child has a high fever, knock it down before the doctor comes. To do this, any means shown for children are suitable: Nurofen, Panadol for children, etc. By the way, they not only reduce temperature, but also anesthetize. In the purulent flow of otitis consultation specialist is required, especially if the child's age does not exceed two years.

Antibiotics for treatment can only be attributed to a doctor, based on the results of inoculation with a laboratory tank. Why do you need seeding? To correctly identify the type of bacteria that has settled in your baby's ear and pick up the antibiotic to which it is most sensitive. Although they are now producing a lot of antibacterial drugs that have a wide range of activities( coping with many strains of microbes), it is better to wait for the result of the planting after all. This does not apply to cases where assistance is needed immediately. Treatment with antibiotics is prescribed for severe forms of otitis, as well as for young children. If you have undertaken to treat the baby yourself - do it without antibiotics, since the wrong medicine can be dangerous!

A rule that can never be ignored: if the baby does not experience improvement within two to three days - consult a specialist.

Remember , even if you have decided to treat your child at home, a preliminary consultation with an ENT doctor is absolutely essential. After all, only he can correctly assess the condition, degree and form of the disease, distinguish catarrhal otitis from serous, purulent or exudative, to prescribe the most appropriate treatment.

Prevention measures

So that the baby does not get sick with otitis media - learn and follow the simple rules:

• always treat attentively and treat timely illnesses of other ENT organs( sore throats, rhinitis, tonsillitis).This is the most important rule, failure and ignorance of which lead to inflammation of the ear in most cases;
• hygiene is the guarantee of health! This applies to the ears. Clean out the auditory moves in a timely and thorough manner;
• , try not to get water in the ear. Otherwise, try to get it out.

Herbs that provide good prophylaxis of otitis are the turn, eucalyptus, licorice root and calendula. It is recommended to drink the tincture of these herbs on boiling water in a dosage - 1 glass per adult( for children from two years - 2-3 tablespoons).The course of treatment is four weeks.