Can you sterilize a middle ear infection with povidone-iodine?

Otitis media can not be sterilized with iodophor, iodophor is more irritating to the mucous membrane, clinically it is not recommended to use iodophor to sterilize to treat otitis media. Acute suppurative otitis media or acute attack of chronic suppurative otitis media, there is a large amount of pus in the middle ear drum chamber through the perforated tympanic membrane to the external auditory canal, it is recommended to first clean the external auditory canal with cotton swabs, or use negative pressure suction to suction pus out of the external auditory canal, and use a large amount of hydrogen peroxide to wash the external auditory canal for several times, to clean the pus from the external auditory canal, and then use ofloxacin drops or lomefloxacin drops to drip in the ears, and adding a Dexamethasone effect is better, the liquid once 10 minutes, 4 times a day ear drops, so as to achieve a better sterilization and disinfection effect. Acute otitis media or chronic suppurative otitis media acute attack, the treatment should also actively cooperate with intravenous fluids, static antibiotics, anti-inflammatory treatment and microwave therapy, to promote the inflammation to subside as soon as possible.