What are the symptoms of mastoiditis?

Mastoiditis is actually a relatively common disease, but some people do not understand its symptoms, which may lead to delayed discovery or misdiagnosis, which is not good for the health of the body. The more obvious symptom of mastoiditis is that the skin in the mastoid area will feel swollen, and there will be obvious pain when pressing it with your hands. This is when you need to be alert.

(1) The skin of the mastoid area is swollen, red, and tender.

(2) The posterior and superior wall of the bony part of the external auditory canal is red, swollen and collapsed; the perforation of the tympanic membrane is small, and there is pus pulsating at the perforation site, with a large amount of pus; sometimes the pus breaks through the outer wall of the mastoid and forms an abscess under the periosteum.

(3) Mastoid X-rays show that in the early stages, shadows of the tympanic sinus and mastoid air cells may be seen, which may appear cloudy.

(4) Leukocytosis and increase in polymorphonuclear cells.

Although mastoiditis is not a serious disease and will not have particularly serious consequences, it will have a certain impact on the patient's hearing. In life, ears are the medium through which we receive external information. If our hearing is weakened, we will not be able to communicate with others normally, which will have a great impact on our normal life. Therefore, we need to keep in mind the above symptoms of mastoiditis. When we experience these symptoms, we should immediately go to the relevant medical department for diagnosis and treatment to minimize the impact of the disease on daily life and the damage it causes to the human body.