Secretory otitis media.

Suehs, Oliver W.

doi:10.1288/00005537-195209000-00007

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“…Contrary to earlier observations (Suehs, 1952) the coastal location of Southampton did not exhibit a higher prevalence of OME.…”

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“…The mean point prevalences of 16.5 per cent in fiveyear-olds, 10.5 per cent in six-year-olds, 6.7 per cent in seven-year-olds and 5.6 per cent in eight-year-olds are within the range of the European literature reported by Zeilhuis et al (1990). Contrary to earlier observations (Suehs, 1952) the coastal location of Southampton did not exhibit a higher prevalence of OME.…”

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The natural history of otitis media with effusion – a three-year study of the incidence and prevalence of abnormal tympanograms in four South West Hampshire Infant and First schools

et al. 1994

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Otitis media with effusion (OME) is both extremely common in young children, and variable in its duration and severity. This study aims to gather and consider new and reliable information about the incidence and prevalence of OME in British school children.Eight hundred and fifty-six school children aged five to eight years from four South West Hampshire schools were examined over a three-year period by tympanometry, a method used to detect OME (>90 per cent specificity and sensitivity) performed once per school term. Normal ears were recorded in 54.9 per cent of children throughout with 27 per cent recording evidence of effusion. However in only one out of 10 of the affected children did the fluid persist for a year or more. This impressive clearance is due in part to natural resolution, with the intervention of surgery occurring in about one in eight of the children with identified effusions.OME is more common in five-year-olds with an annual prevalence of 17 per cent compared to six per cent in eight-year-olds and is more common in the winter months. Because of the variability of the condition at least two screenings are recommended as a basis for good management.

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“…Contrary to earlier observations (Suehs, 1952) the coastal location of Southampton did not exhibit a higher prevalence of OME.…”

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The natural history of otitis media with effusion – a three-year study of the incidence and prevalence of abnormal tympanograms in four South West Hampshire Infant and First schools

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“…From daily practice we know that fewer children are diagnosed and treated for secretory otitis in the summer months than during any other season of the year; clinical surveys of the treatment o f secretory otitis confirm this (Suehs, 1952;Lemon, 1962;Leeks, 1963;Draper, 1967). However, no systematic epidemiological study o f the seasonal influence on the frequency of secretory otitis exists.…”

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Tympanometry in 2-Year-Old Children

Poulsen²

1979

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Repetitive screening tympanometry performed in 240 healthy 2-year-old children showed that tympanometric conditions are significantly better in the summer season than in the spring or winter. A very large tendency to spontaneous normalization of the tympanogram type B was demonstrated. Only 16% of the ears that had type B at the first investigation in November had the same type in August. Simultaneous with the normalization of some ears others deteriorated, thus in November type B tympanogram was found in 12%, in February 14.6%, in May 11.3%, and in August 7.2% of all ears investigated. Due to the large variability in the tympanometric conditions which are predominantly caused by catarrhalia, 28.6% of the ears have had type B tympanogram at least once during the period from November to August, while only 1.6% have had type B at all four investigations. The large spontaneous recovery of secretory otitis, demonstrated in the present study, indicates that the child should be observed for a period before implementation of surgical treatment.

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“…Incidence of the disease is highest in winter and lowest in summer (Lous and Fiellau-Nikolajsen, 1981;Casselbrant et al, 1985), paralleling an increased incidence in episodes of upper respiratory tract infection. Children living in areas of low altitude and high humidity appear to be at greater risk than those living in higher altitudes and areas of low humidity (Suehs, 1952; Anderson, 1965). Parental or caretaker smoking is a hazard, for exposure to cigarette smoke increases the risk for persistent OM in a general pediatric population (Kramer et al, 1983).…”

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Otitis media: A problem for the physical anthropologist

Daniel

Schmidt

Fulghum

et al. 1988

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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Otitis media, common in children, can result in middle ear structure alteration and hearing loss, and, hence, in language development deficiency. Physical anthropologists are qualified to do innovative research into the causes of this costly disease, which have not yet been delineated. The prevalence of otitis media appears related to age, sex, ethnicity, and environment. Investigation is warranted in areas such as the measurement of variability in eustachian tube, middle ear cleft, and mastoid process anatomy and physiology; the epidemiology and genetic mechanism of otitis media; and the microbiology and immunology as well as pathological studies of cranial variation as it relates to otitis media.Otitis media (OM), one of the most common diseases of childhood, is the problem most frequently seen by pediatricians in the US. Nearly 10% of all pediatric patients are those with OM, and if pediatricians dealt with children during their first year of life only, the estimate would be as high as 50% (Van Cauwenberge, 1985). Acute OM, the presence of fluid in the middle ear, may be accompanied by signs and symptoms including pain, hearing loss, irritability, fever, and malaise. The infection duration can vary from days to months and may result in alteration of middle ear structures, hearing loss, language development deficiency, and increased susceptibility to recurrence. Without the use of antibiotics, the sequelae of chronic OM often include labyrinthitis, meningitis, mastoiditis, tympanic membrane rupture, and cholesteatoma. The younger the age at which OM first occurs, the greater the risk of recurrences (Paradise, 1980). The condition may persist for weeks or months, even after the clinical signs of acute otitis media have already resolved (Shurin et al., 1979).Hearing loss, following from the presence of fluid and/or negative pressure in the middle ear, is a serious complication of OM, and many infected children spend prolonged periods during their first years of life with impaired or fluctuating conductive hearing losses. Chronic OM may also cause a sensorineural hearing lossoften irreversible (Bess, 1983). Katz (1978) even suggested (but never demonstrated) that the central deprivation caused by the peripheral conductive and/or sensorineural loss produces a form of auditory deprivation that can lead to anatomical and physiological changes in the brainstem and higher cortical areas.Of special concern are children who have OM from birth (Pestalozza, 1984) to age 3 years, a particularly common time of occurrence, as this period is critical for language acquisition (Lenneberg, 1967). Children with histories of OM during the first 3 years of life frequently have disturbances in auditory processing, an inconsistent auditory signal making the stream of speech difficult to segment. This difficulty creates confusion in the child's attempts to abstract word meanings and grammatical regularities (Berko-Gleason, 1983). Furthermore, the child's irritability, malaise, 0 1988 Alan R. Liss, Inc. [Vol. 31, 1988 and dec...

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Secretory otitis media.

Cited by 116 publications

References 14 publications

The natural history of otitis media with effusion – a three-year study of the incidence and prevalence of abnormal tympanograms in four South West Hampshire Infant and First schools

The natural history of otitis media with effusion – a three-year study of the incidence and prevalence of abnormal tympanograms in four South West Hampshire Infant and First schools

Tympanometry in 2-Year-Old Children

Otitis media: A problem for the physical anthropologist

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