Volume : VII, Issue : VII, July - 2018

Acute ear infection : A hidden cause in crying infant.

Hardik Shah, Hiral Shah, Riya Patel, Parth Patel

Abstract :

Objectives

Excessively crying infants coming to paediatric OPD is usually a concern for parents. Present study is aim to evaluate ear infections in this infants and also to find out different risk factors associated with ear infections. As young infants have no specific symptoms this risk factors gives strong predictive value for ear infections.

Methods

Otherwise healthy infants between age of 1 month to 1 year coming to paediatric OPD with history of excessive crying were enrolled and evaluated for ear infections. Presence of other symptoms and different risk factors associated with ear infections were observed and analysed.,

Results

Total 280 infants were enrolled out of 163(58%) (p value<0.001,significant) were having ear infection .All infants have other non specific symptoms like excessive irritability, restless sleep and poor feeding. Fever and ear ache was found in very less infants. Lower socioeconomic status, lower maternal education and awareness, faulty feeding practices, lack of exclusive east feeding,bottle feeding, exposure to indoor house smoking and presence of any form of URI symptoms mainly nasal congestion and watering of eyes were strongly associated (p value<0.001,significant)in infants with ear infections .

Conclusion

Screening of ear infection in excessively crying infants particularly having any of risk factors will help us to reduce complication and morbidity related to this in later life including loss of heå and delayed speech. As symptoms of ear infections are very unspecific high level of prediction helps us to treat same timely.

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Hardik Shah, Hiral Shah, Riya Patel, Parth Patel, Acute ear infection : A hidden cause in crying infant., GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-7 | Issue-7 | July-2018


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