Children caught a cold and alert otitis media

QianWenJuan Nanjing institute of traditional Chinese medicine

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        Cold is a season when converting the most common "indisposition", but many more serious disease can occur in after a cold, such as infantile febrile convulsion, viral myocarditis, pneumonia, nephritis, meningitis, etc. Recently, the nanjing institute of traditional Chinese medicine treated more than 50 cases due to cold cause all kinds of complications of patients, including 4 years old boy dragonet (a pseudonym) caused by a cold because of secretory otitis media, causing sensorineural hearing loss, pediatric experts remind, cold parents should pay more attention to prevention and control, guard cold cause complications.

        4 years old dragonet a month ago a cold, both infusion and take medicine, illness has been repeated, later, his mother and discovery and dragonet talk he often didn't respond, or irrelevant answer, push aside the ear a look, little dragon ears have pale yellow mucus, to the college examination found little dragon with secretory otitis media, the hearing test showed that hearing damage by 20% ~ 30%. Again used antibiotics half a month, otitis media is still not recovered, poor listening. Due to the small dragon age is too small, no longer suitable for use more drugs.

        Acupuncture and moxibustion institute li doctor introduction, otitis media often happened in pediatric respiratory infections, are children common cause of deafness reason, secretory otitis media and are known as the pyogenic otitis media, catarrhal otitis media and so on, with no ears purulence or obvious ear pain symptoms, often is ignored, but it will become a "stolen" infantile the hearing the culprit.

        In treatment, in addition to use antibiotics, but also can cooperate with acupuncture treatment, the effect is significant. Little dragon secretory otitis media or and his two of lung, spleen deficiency constitution related, the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinks spleen for lung of the mother dirty, production of the spleen and stomach and the subtle imitation keep lung qi, spleen, lung health is strong, the insufficiency of the spleen, lung weak. Repeated a cold, disease long injury is, leading to more apparent spleen, spleen, lost to transport and digest, to water fluid absorption, transfer, throwing force drops, phlegm and blood stasis is also opening into resistance ears with secretory otitis media in the pathogenesis of traditional Chinese medicine.

        Acupuncture and moxibustion, in addition to local ear acupoint and external close the place such as acupuncture dredge shaoyang qi, opening and closing: outside, still can choose foot three mile, sp9, gas such as sea spleen meridians, and at the same time cooperate with suspension moxibustion ear acupoint around and st36 enhance immunity. Treatment may, according to the different situation, once per day, or alternate days once, effect is remarkable.