Beginning to treat otitis media at home is best with a visit to Llora's office. Yes, yes, do not be surprised. It is he who can correctly diagnose, because very often behind the symptoms of otitis are more serious diseases. Or, conversely, less serious( sulfur plug, for example).After the diagnosis of "otitis" is confirmed, you can and should take care of otitis treatment at home in adults.
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Otitis externa: treatment in adults -
To which specialist should I go for otitis? -
Symptoms and causes of otitis in adults -
Otitis: can I treat my ear with warming? -
Ear drops in otitis: which is better to choose
Treatment of otitis antibiotics in adults
Otitis of the ear is an inflammatory process, so antibiotics are necessarily used in treatment.
Warning! The type of antibiotics, the duration of their administration and dosage are prescribed only by the doctor, taking into account the severity of the disease, the age of the patient and its susceptibility to these drugs.
Most specialists do not prescribe antibiotic treatment for the first symptoms of otitis media, this practice is called expectant. The purpose is made in the case when the remaining funds do not help to relieve pain symptoms or their apparent growth occurs.
Only children are prescribed antibiotics when:
- the age of the baby is less than 2 years;
- pronounced symptoms of intoxication - weakness, lethargy in combination with fever;
- elevated temperature - 38-390ะก;
- severe pain.
Drugs are prescribed both in the form of tablets internally, and in the form of ointments topically. Some ear drops contain antibiotics. Their reception by no means abolishes the use of other means. Defeat the disease can only complex treatment.
A warming compress for the treatment of otitis of the ear
At the first symptoms of otitis( lumbago in the ear, pain) as a means of pre-medical care use warming compresses. The simplest of them is to warm your ear with a water or electric hot water bottle. To do this, lie on a warm water bottle with a sick ear and lie for 15 minutes. This procedure can be done 3 to 4 times a day. When the temperature rises, the infection dies if there is sulfur in the ear canal - it softens and flows outward, facilitating the course of the disease. In some cases, only warming-up is enough to relieve the pain.
Treatment of otitis in adults with a vodka compress
To perform the treatment with a vodka compress, gauze is needed. Fold it in several layers and in the middle make a hole to the size of the ear. Wet gauze in a vodka solution and put on the ear so that it was outward, and gauze around it. The procedure should be continued for 4 hours. Thus, it is possible to treat otitis media of the middle ear in adults.
Important! Never warm your ear, if the disease has passed into the purulent stage and pus oozes from the ear canal - this will lead to a worsening of the condition.
As a heating pad you can use bags with hot sand or salt.
Treatment of otitis media at home. Video lesson.
Minidum lamp
Otitis of the external ear can be treated at home if there is a blue lamp( Minin lamp), warm up the sick ear with it. The device is located at a distance of 30 - 50 cm from the skin surface( the exact distance is selected individually according to one's own sensations), the duration of the procedure is 5 - 10 minutes. The total number of sessions should not exceed 4 - 5 per day, the course is up to 6 days.
When using the Minin lamp, do not forget the safety rules:
- do not use warm-up if the patient has a fever;
- Protect the retina from the effects of rays - do not look at the working lamp with unprotected eyes;
- do not hold the device closer than 30 cm to the skin surface.
Alcohol and oil compresses
Helping warm alcohol or semi-alcohol compresses. The usual bandage is moistened with a solution of medical alcohol or vodka, and put on the ear. In the case of semi-alcohol - use a solution diluted with water in half. For ear canal it is necessary to leave a hole - it can not be closed during the procedure.
Polyethylene is superimposed on top, then a layer of cotton wool is used to enhance the heating effect. The entire structure is fixed with a bandage or a handkerchief.
The Golden Rule of the Compress: , each successive layer should be larger than the previous one and completely cover it.
The warming compress should not be left overnight. It is worn for 3 to 4 hours, after which it cools down and acts as a cold lotion!
If the skin is sensitive and alcohol is irritated, you can try oil compresses. They are made as well as alcohol, only as an impregnation is used heated camphor or vegetable oil. A good effect is the oil of lavender and lemon wormwood.
Caution! Any heating procedures should be applied with caution to children. And the smaller the child's age, the more alert it should be. In children, the process of transition of the disease to the purulent stage occurs much faster than in the adult, and warming can greatly worsen the condition.
Turundy
The most effective and simple way to treat otitis in the home is turunda. They are a piece of bandage or gauze, twisted in a spiral, and soaked in medical fluid. As a therapeutic solution can act: tincture of calendula, boric alcohol, nut oil, honey.
Turundu is inserted as deep as possible into the ear( do not be afraid to damage the eardrum, the length of the ear canal is 2.5 cm - it's unlikely that you will get to it), and then push it with a piece of cotton wool. This allows the turunda as closely as possible to contact the surface of the patient's ear and accelerates the penetration of useful substances into diseased tissues.
Do not forget! In the treatment of otitis in children it is not recommended to use boric alcohol - in many countries it is prohibited for use in pediatrics.
Drops for the treatment of otitis in adults
At home, direct instillation of drugs into the sore ear can be dangerous. If the perforation of the tympanic membrane happens, the medicine can get into the middle ear and affect the auditory nerve. This will lead to deafness, or to complete deafness.
Therefore, it is better not to risk and do with the desired medicine turundochki - the effect of this will be no less, and the risk of remaining deaf will significantly decrease.
If drops are prescribed by a doctor, before instillation it is necessary to heat the medicine to body temperature. This can be done by holding a bubble under the hot water, or by warming up the pipette, into which drops will be collected.
Common ear drops - sofadax, otipax, otofa - can be used only in accordance with the instructions attached to the drug, without forgetting about contraindications.
Folk remedies against otitis
As an addition to medicines prescribed by a doctor, it is possible to use folk methods of otitis treatment.
Aloe and Kalanchoe leaves are well removed from inflammation. The washed leaves are wrapped in gauze and carefully inserted into the ear canal. You can leave for the night.
For relief of pain it is recommended to put a leaf of geranium into the ear, it also has an anti-inflammatory effect.
If the disease has passed into a purulent stage, the infusion of laurel leaves is excellent. To treat purulent otitis at home, you need a few dry Lavra, they are ground and poured with steep boiling water. Insist for 30 minutes, after which the infusion can be used to impregnate turundum. For the removal of pus, the course of treatment is 5 to 8 days.
Onion juice has a strong antibacterial effect. When otitis it is recommended to instill in the sick ear at night, warmed, 3 drops.
Recommendation: if you bury anything, put it in your ear, you are afraid, you can use a decoction of cranberries: a handful of berries are poured into 3 cups of boiling water, insist and drink 2 glasses half an hour before meals.
Good help with otitis various alcohol tinctures.
- Melissa leaves insist in 10% alcohol solution. At an exacerbation dig in on 6 - 8 drops in the morning and in the evening.
- Makhorka is flooded with medical alcohol in a ratio of 1:10.Use 6 drops twice a day.
- Okolopodniki Manchurian or walnut insist in a 10% solution of alcohol. Take 5 drops 2 times a day.
- Infusion of celandine( 10 ml of vodka and 20 g of herb infusion for 10 days) removes severe ear pain. They are moistened with tampons that are injected into the ear 2-3 times a day.
If you are concerned about the noise in your ears, garlic extract will come to the rescue. It is ingested, once a day, after mixing 20 drops of extract with 2/3 cups of milk.
Recipe for extracting garlic: 300 g of cleaned garlic heads pour 0.5 liters of vodka and insist for 3 weeks in a dark place.
If there is no time to make the tincture
If the otitis is taken by surprise and immediate measures are needed to relieve its symptoms, folk remedies will also help:
- eat a quarter of a lemon with a crust daily - this will facilitate the course of the disease;
- boil a small beet in honey and use as compresses;
- two eggs boil hard, a little cool under cold water and clean. Separate the proteins, wrap them in a dense cotton cloth and wring out. Dip the liquid into the diseased ear;
- mix one drop of sea-buckthorn oil and honey, pour the resulting mixture into the ear and cover the ear canal with cotton wool for 1 hour;
- with severe pain, you can wash your ear with hot milk with the addition of hemp oil.
The last secret to the successful treatment of otitis at home
Dry warmth of animal hair is undeservedly forgotten, but this is no less effective method. If a scarf made of goat hair is covered in a closet - they can simply tie their head. This will greatly alleviate the pain syndromes. Well suited wool sheep( due to the composition of lanolin, it has anti-edema and anti-allergenic effect), fox, bear.
Record for dry heating - dog hair!
You can find headphones out of wool( usually from New Zealand sheepskins) and wear them without taking them off. In these headphones you can walk( if there is no wind and strong frost).
Otitis is a terrible disease not so much in itself, but as a complication that can occur when untimely or incorrect treatment. Therefore, never delay a visit to a doctor and make the most of the possibilities of traditional medicine. And be healthy!