Otitis media or middle ear infection is a fairly common disease that occurs in children. Children aged 1-2 years are at the highest risk of infection. The disease often appears during the rainy season, when the weather changes. Due to subjectivity and not being treated promptly, there have been many cases of otitis media causing deafness.

Otitis media is a common condition in children. Especially, the change of season is the time when many ear, nose and throat diseases arise, so parents should be equipped with more information about the signs and treatment of otitis media to have a way to handle when children get the disease.

Otitis media is a common disease in infants and young children. When suffering from this disease, children will have some symptoms such as: high fever, fussiness, refusal to eat, refusal to breastfeed, vomiting, shaking the head, rubbing hands in the ears, even convulsions... If otitis media in children is not detected and treated promptly, after about 2-3 days, it can turn into otitis media with pus, pus rupture, causing complications such as perforated eardrum, pus flowing out of the ear....

Otitis media with perforated eardrum is a complication of otitis media when not detected and treated promptly. In addition, otitis media can also cause facial paralysis, mastoiditis, even meningitis, brain abscess....

Acute suppurative otitis media is a common disease, showing inflammation in the middle ear with fluid. Accumulated fluid in the middle ear can cause the eardrum to rupture and the fluid to escape. Treatment depends on each specific stage.