The relationship between otitis media with effusion and contact with other children in a British cohort studied from 8 months to 3 1/2 years

Dewey, Claire; Midgeley, Elizabeth; Maw, Richard

doi:10.1016/s0165-5876(00)00377-3

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“…In some studies it has been reported that there is no gender difference in the occurence of this disease [13][14][15]. The result of this study is similar to that of the studies done by Alho et al [16] and Daly et al [17] where the boys have a greater prevalence.…”

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Otitis Media with Effusion in Children and Its Correlation with Foreign Body in the External Auditory Canal

Sarkar

Sadhukhan

Roychoudhury

et al. 2010

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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Otitis Media with Effusion (OME) is difined as the chronic accumulation of mucus within the middle ear and sometimes the mastoid air cell system. Significant hearing loss may go unnoticed and may result in improper development of speech and language. Foreign bodies in the external auditory canal of paediatric patients are commonly encountered in day-to-day practice. The purpose was to see if there is any relation between foreign bodies in ears and otitis media with effusion. A prospective study of consecutive cases was conducted between August 2005 and August 2007 at a teaching hospital. All children presenting with the history of a foreign body in the external auditory canal were included in this study. 50/74 that is 67.8% of the children in the study group had abnormal findings in the tympanogram whereas only 28/74 that is 37.8% children from the control group had abnormal findings in tympanogram. This study indicates that significant eustachian tube dysfunction to frank OME, causes irritation and/or earache in children which may compel them to put things into the ear. So children with an external auditory foreign body must be followed up in an ENT clinic. This may be an early opportunity to diagnose an underlying undetected OME and/or eustachian tube dysfunction in children, preventing the development of any complication from the undetected OME.

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confidence: 90%

Otitis Media with Effusion in Children and Its Correlation with Foreign Body in the External Auditory Canal

Sarkar

Sadhukhan

Roychoudhury

et al. 2010

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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“…In our study the distribution of the case in relation to season was different, in which the patients with OME were higher in the winter as opposed to the summer months which was consistent with other studies [11,23,24], this was probably due to increased frequency of upper respiratory tract infection during winter months. The study demonstrated that OME in West Baghdad is slightly more among boys (54.4%) than girls (45.6%); this is comparable with some studies which gave no significant difference in the prevalence of OME between both genders [25], even if the literature data are discordances because some studies demonstrate that males have a significantly higher proportion of OME (p<0.001) while others founds that the number of girls with OME significantly exceeds the number of boys with OME (<chi>2=7.384, P=0.0067) [17,26]. The hallmark of OME is the lack of obvious symptoms in those who most commonly have the condition.…”

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confidence: 86%

Otitis Media with Effusion in Children: A Follow up Study in West Baghdad, Iraq

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2014

Commun Disord Deaf Stud Hearing Aids

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Objective: To study the clinical, audiological and radiological characteristics as well as treatment outcome of children less than 12 years old suffered from Otitis Media with Effusion (OME) from West Baghdad, Iraq. Materials and Methods:This is a follow up study performed upon 180 child under 12 years old, diagnosed having OME by clinical, audiological and radiological means, they were treated in Al-Ramadi and Al-Fallujah General Hospitals drained from West Baghdad and Al-Anbar Governorate, during the period from May 2010 to July 2012. The data obtained from the parents, clinical examination and investigations like Pure Tone Audiometry (PTA), tympanometry and lateral soft tissue x-ray of the neck had been done. The treatment outcome studied after follow up for six months.Results: There were 54.4% boys and 45.6% girls. The main presenting symptom was hearing impairment (brought by family) (47.2%) and the main presenting sign was retraction of tympanic membrane (91.7%), the mean amount of hearing loss by PTA was 22.6 ± 5.5 dB. In 92.2% of patients tympanometry was type B. The size of the adenoid measured by Adenoid\Nasopharyngeal ratio was located mainly on Grade 3+ (43.3%). All the patients were given medical treatment, 61.1% of them responded. Patients that failed to response to medical treatment underwent different modalities of surgical means represented mainly by myringotomy and adenotonsillectomy. Conclusion:There was significant correlation between the size of adenoid and the type of tympanogram and hearing threshold. The treatment was mainly medical, while surgical means if indicated they were myringotomy accompanied mainly with adenotonsillectomy.

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“…In this cohort of Pacific children, being in day care significantly increased the risk of OME, with children who were in care for 20 or more hours a week being five times more likely to have OME. British researchers dichotomized the hours of being in day care in the same way but found no such relationship with OME [43]. Other studies focusing on the relationship between day care attendance and respiratory illness generally show that the number of children present is an important factor [44,45].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The most important environmental risk factors for contracting OME that have been reported to date are day care attendance, family size, tobacco smoke exposure, breastfeeding and socioeconomic status [18][19][20]. Children living in households with many family members [21,22] and several siblings [23] have also been found to have an increased risk for contracting OME.…”

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confidence: 99%

Pacific Islands Families Study: Risk factors associated with otitis media with effusion among Pacific 2-year-old children

Paterson

Carter

Wallace

et al. 2007

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

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The relationship between otitis media with effusion and contact with other children in a British cohort studied from 8 months to 3 1/2 years

Cited by 46 publications

References 43 publications

Otitis Media with Effusion in Children and Its Correlation with Foreign Body in the External Auditory Canal

Otitis Media with Effusion in Children and Its Correlation with Foreign Body in the External Auditory Canal

Otitis Media with Effusion in Children: A Follow up Study in West Baghdad, Iraq

Pacific Islands Families Study: Risk factors associated with otitis media with effusion among Pacific 2-year-old children

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