5-year review of aural foreign bodies in pediatric, side effects and treatment outcomes

Abstract

Due to the high prevalence of children with complaints of foreign bodies in the ear, complications of lack of treatment or incorrect treatment, some complications can be prevented and also there is no similar study in domestic scientific databases and also in the country and due to lack of Necessary information in the field of epidemiology of this issue in the country, the present study was conducted with the aim of 5 years of examination of foreign bodies in children, complications and treatment results. Materials & Methods: In this retrospective descriptive study, patients who referred to Tabriz Children's Hospital with a complaint of a foreign body in the ear between April 2016 and March 2016 were reviewed. The records of patients subject to inclusion criteria were collected based on a checklist including the type of foreign body, subsequent side effects such as intraoperative findings and audiometric results, and the relationship between these two variables was examined. After collecting data, they entered SPSS software. In all tests, a significance level of 0.05 was considered. Results: In the present study, 165 children aged 1 to 12 years with a mean age of 5.36. 2.81 were included in the study. 103 (62.4%) were boys and 62 (37.6) were girls. There was a significant relationship between gender and foreign body of the ear so that the ratio of boys to girls was 1.66. The most common foreign objects were fruit kernels and cereals and plastic toys. The most foreign bodies in boys were the kernels of fruits and legumes and in girls the seeds were rosaries and pearls. The tympanic membrane was abraded in 93 cases (56.4%) healthy, 40 cases (24.2%) erythematous, 29 cases (17.6%) perforated and 3 cases (1.8%). In 38 cases (23%) blood was seen in the ear canal