What causes yellow ears?

The ear is the organ that controls the hearing system in the human body and is also the basis for our communication and daily interactions with others. However, the human ear is mainly composed of the cochlea, eardrum and eardrum. Abnormal conditions in different organs may lead to hearing loss and ear pain. When the ears are infected with bacteria, the ears often turn yellow. What is going on?

Inflammation of the middle ear is otitis media, which is caused by bacterial infection in the middle ear, so the full medical name is "acute suppurative otitis media". It is a common cause of earache in children. Otitis media, also known as "otitis media", causes headaches and sometimes pus to flow from the ear. Although it is not a serious illness, it brings endless pain to people.

Symptoms of otitis media

Systemic symptoms: vary in severity. There may be chills, fever, fatigue, and loss of appetite. Children have more severe systemic symptoms, often accompanied by vomiting, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms. Once the eardrum is perforated, the body temperature gradually drops and systemic symptoms are significantly alleviated.

Earache: Pain deep in the ear that gradually worsens. If the pain is throbbing or stabbing, it may radiate to the same side of the head or teeth. The ear pain worsens when swallowing and coughing. Those with severe ear pain cannot sleep at night and feel irritable and restless. After the eardrum was perforated and pus was discharged, the ear pain was relieved suddenly.

Ear discharge: is the main symptom of this disease. It may be mucous, mucopurulent or pure purulent. The non-dangerous type of pus discharge is thinner and has no odor. Although the dangerous type of pus discharge is not much, it is thicker, mostly pure purulent, and accompanied by a foul odor.

Hearing loss and tinnitus: You may feel stuffy in your ears at first, followed by a gradual decrease in hearing, accompanied by tinnitus. For those with severe ear pain, deafness can be ignored. Some patients may also have vertigo, and the deafness may be alleviated after perforation.

Deafness: The severity of deafness varies, but it is often a unilateral ear disease and can be easily overlooked. This type of deafness is often proportional to the progression of the disease. That is, the more severe the lesion, the more severe the deafness. It is generally conductive deafness.

Specific symptoms

Acute suppurative otitis media: In the early stage, there is a feeling of stuffiness in the ears, gradual hearing loss, and tinnitus. Before the eardrum is perforated, in addition to severe ear pain, there are also chills, fever, etc. When the eardrum is perforated, the pain suddenly eases, but pus flows from the middle ear into the external auditory canal, and typical symptoms of ear discharge appear. It is initially bloody and purulent, and later turns into pus.

Chronic suppurative otitis media: characterized by intermittent purulent discharge, which may be mucous, mucopurulent, or sticky and smelly. The pus discharge from cholesteatoma otitis media is continuous, the amount is small, and it has a putrid odor. The pus is mixed with bean dregs-like or onion-skin-like secretions. This is called cholesteatoma.