Rhinitis may cause otitis media, and it is recommended that patients should seek timely medical examination once rhinitis occurs to avoid delaying the condition and causing complications.
Rhinitis is usually due to viral infection, allergen stimulation and other factors that lead to inflammatory lesions of the nasal mucosa, so that the nasal mucosa congestion, hyperplasia, necrosis and other pathological changes.
The nasal cavity is usually connected to the pharyngeal cavity, which in turn has the Eustachian tube leading to the middle ear drum chamber. If patients with rhinitis are not treated in time and the inflammation spreads, the inflammation may spread along the mucous membrane of the Eustachian tube to the tympanic chamber, thus causing suppurative otitis media.
Rhinitis leads to increased nasal secretions and swelling of the Eustachian tube in the nasopharynx, which causes negative pressure and fluid accumulation in the middle ear cavity, which can also lead to secretory otitis media.
Chronic hypertrophic rhinitis usually leads to hypertrophy of the inferior turbinate area, which presses on the Eustachian tube, causing rhinitis figure for the Eustachian tube and pharyngeal orifice obstruction, so that the middle ear tympanic chamber cavity and the outside world air exchange is impeded, so that the middle ear ventilation, drainage is not smooth, inducing secretory otitis media.
Once the patient appears rhinitis, can actively seek medical systematic examination, clear diagnosis, follow the doctor’s instructions standardized treatment.