Clinical Study of the Patients Suffering From Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media

Clinical study of the patients suffering from Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media.

Patients attending O. P. D. of a Medical College Hospital, were taken in to consideration. Detail history of all sampled patients and clinical examination were carried out. Thus 128 ears of one hundred cases included in the study.

were expressed in terms of simple proportion.

Ottorhhoea was present in all sampled patients followed by deafness, tinnitus, headache, earache and vertigo. Recurrent nasal and throat infection was the most common associated factors responsible for chronic suppurative otitis media.

There is an urgent need to bring awareness among the masses about various aspects of the disease; similarly consulting doctors must be motivated for rational use of drugs, by keeping in mind the development of resistance against antibiotics.