Ear foreign body: Difference between revisions
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*Check other ear / nares | |||
==Management== | ==Management== | ||
Revision as of 19:28, 26 May 2015
Background
- Usually children 6 yo or younger
Clinical Features
- Caregiver often reports seeing child put something in the ear
- Decreased hearing or otalgia
- More common on right (hand dominant) side
- May have otorrhea or bleeding
Differential Diagnosis
Ear Diagnoses
External
- Auricular hematoma
- Auricular perichondritis
- Cholesteatoma
- Contact dermatitis
- Ear foreign body
- Herpes zoster oticus (Ramsay Hunt syndrome)
- Malignant otitis externa
- Otitis externa
- Otomycosis
- Tympanic membrane rupture
Internal
- Acute otitis media
- Chronic otitis media
- Mastoiditis
Inner/vestibular
Diagnosis
- Typically seen on visual inspection or otoscopy
- Check other ear / nares