There are not a few patients with otitis media, but it is only in recent years that people begin to pay more attention to this disease. There is such a post-90s girl who has a history of otitis media for more than ten years. There is no significant impact on daily life, but recently it was found that yellow pus flowed out of the ears, and tinnitus, nausea, headache, dizziness occurred, resulting in meningitis. In the hospital, doctors found that her ossicles had been severely damaged, which almost rotted and unfortunately lost her hearing.

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Location map of the smallest three human bones — three auditory bones (malleus, incus and stapes)

At the age of 10, the girl was found to have otitis media symptoms. At that time, she did not go to the hospital for systematic treatment due to her intense study. After a period of time, the symptoms of anti-inflammatory drugs bought by her family were relieved, so she did not pay much attention. In the following ten years, her otitis media often recurred and her hearing was damaged little by little, but she didn’t find out and didn’t go to the hospital. She still took some anti-inflammatory drugs when she had the same disease as in the past. Even if the yellow pus flowed out of her ears, she dried it with cotton swabs and paper towels, and then she didn’t care much.

After college, she worked in a foreign company. She had a bad cold more than a month ago. After more than a week’s hard work at home, she recovered. Half a month ago, when she got up, she felt that there was always something blocking her ears. She was not very clear about the sound, and there was pus flowing out of her ears. She knew that the otitis media had relapsed again, so she carried it hard according to the old way. But this time, no matter how much medicine Li Xia took, she didn’t get better and her head began to feel sick.

Until recent days, her ears felt tinnitus, nausea, headache, dizziness, purulent ears, and the sensitivity to sound plummeted, so she hurriedly went to the otolaryngology department of the hospital for consultation.

According to the doctor’s examination, she was diagnosed as chronic suppurative otitis media with meningitis in both ears. Because she came to see a doctor very late, the inflammation was very serious. The ossicles of her ears and the cells of the related organs in the ears were severely damaged, in which the ossicles were almost rotted, and unfortunately she lost her hearing. At present, she is undergoing treatment for meningitis. When the meningitis is under control, doctors will perform radical mastoidectomy and related treatment for her ears, and finally implant cochlear implant for her to help restore hearing.

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