Otitis Flashcards
Red, burning, itching in ears as if frozen
- spasm of pharyngeal and tympanic muscles
- twitching rattling or fluttering in tympanic cavity
- sound like a leather covered metal valve
- creaking in both ears on swallowing, like a wooden screw
Agaricus
moist eruption on external ear
- scrofulous otorrhea
- chronic catarrhal otitis media with heat and tension, worse heat
- cross and irritable
- white tongue coating
Ant-crud
scrufulous otitis externa, thick crust on and behind ears, eruptions of lobes, small flat tubercles behind ears
- tearing, boring, drawing in front of R ear
- itching in ears
- buzzing and ringing in ears, reverberations worse swallowing, sneezing, walking, blowing nose
- catches colds easily
- enlarged cervical glands
Baryata carb
R sided otitis
- worse at night
- intense pain makes child scream, frantic
- bright red tympanic membrane
Belladonna
externa, with inflamed meatus, sensitive to touch, weak, emaciated person
-chronic otitis media, offensive discharges, pain from ear to neck
Carbo-veg
hardness of hearing, whizzing, buzzing and ringing in the ears
- every step echo in the ears
- reverberating causes hardness of hearing
Causticum
chronic, diffuse otitis
- various noises
- deafness from eustachian tube catarrh
- better riding in a car
- impaired hearing from thunderstruck
- acute to noises
- dryness or inner ear
- fissures behind and in ears with discharge that is white, gluey and sticky
Graphites
otitis media, worse least touch to external ear
- chilly
- irritable
- restless, generally nuxy
- offensive discharge like rotten cheese
- hearing echoes when blowing nose
Hepar Sulph
- Catarrhal (white) conditions of the middle ear
- Swimmer’s ear
- Earache with swelling of glands
- Eustachian tube blocked
- Soreness of Eustachian tube
- Glue ear
- effusion about the auricle
- deafness from catarrh and swelling of internal ear
- sensation of plugs in ears
- snapping or popping noises
- crackling with blowing nose
- threatened mastoiditis
Kali Mur
chronic otitis with glue ear
-yellowish otorrhea
Kali Sulph
-Otitis and Otorrhoea
-Stitches in the ear
-Suppuration and discharge of pus from the ears
-Hardness of hearing
-Obstructed Eustachian tube
-Beating and humming in the ears, own voice echoes in ears
-Caries of the mastoid process
worse night
Nitric Acidum
Otitis with oozing an offensive viscid fluid
- unhealthy looking children with disagreeable odor
- Watery stinking diarrhoea
- Offensive purulent otorrhea
- Pustules on and behind concha
- where other remedies fail to act
Psorinum
ear pains with child
- cries out and needs comfort
- whiney but not angry
Pulsatilla
Chronic Otitis Media
- Deafness, esp. for the human voice
- purulent, offensive discharge
- After meningitis
- Drawing, shooting pains in the ears
- Pressure in the ears when swallowing or sneezing
- Hot and sleepless in the night
- Hot feet and burning of soles in bed want to uncover the feet
- aversion to being washed
Sulphur otitis