Otitis Definition

Otitis Sentence Examples

• There is very often concurrent sinusitis or otitis media (6090% of cases ).

• Doctors treating chronic otitis media (or glue ear) often puncture the eardrum on purpose to drain pus from the middle ear.

• Of the 168 with no parental concern 119 passed our first test, but 81 of these had serous otitis media.

• Fevers are caused in most cases by viral or bacterial infections, such as otitis media (ear infection), upper respiratory infection, pharyngitis (throat infection), pneumonia, chickenpox, and urinary tract infection.

• Antihistamines and decongestants have also been used to treat otitis media, but they have not been proven effective unless the child also has hay fever or some other allergic inflammation that contributes to the ear problem.