An ear infection can cause intense pain during the first 24 hours. Ear infections don’t typically require an emergency room visit, though many parents desperate to help their child feel better resort to this costly option. But many times, home treatment can help relieve your child’s discomfort. Try one or more of the following:

Pain relief. An over-the-counter pain reliever, in children or infant concentration, such as acetaminophen (Tylenol, others) and, after age 6 months, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB, others) can help relieve ear infection pain. Don’t hesitate to use these products whether or not you go to the doctor. Use of pain relievers won’t otherwise change the course of treatment your doctor would recommend. Be sure to use the correct dosage for your child’s age and weight. Giving your child too much medication can cause serious side effects. Never give aspirin to children under age 19 years. It may cause Reye’s syndrome, a rare but potentially life-threatening condition.
Warmth. Apply warmth to the ear. Using a warm, moist cloth may help relieve pain and comfort your child.
Eardrops. Consider asking your doctor about eardrops that numb the ear. These medications (such as A/B Otic or Aurodex) contain a numbing medication (typically benzocaine) which is similar to Novocaine and is also found in the teething medications. These won’t cure the infection, but they may ease pain. Don’t use eardrops if fluid is draining from your child’s ear. Before using drops, warm them slightly by placing the bottle in warm water. Then, gently lay your child’s head and body on a flat surface with the affected ear facing up. Don’t try to insert the drops with your child in your arms or on your lap.

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Ear Pain is common in divers especially in training or during upper respiratory tract infections. Severe pain with sudden impaired hearing can occur while ascending up to the surface. Severe pressure within the middle ear could damage the middle ear bones and rupture the ear drum.

Another common ear pain in divers could be external ear canal infection due to fungus or bacteria. Very often impacted wax with water within the ear canal causes the similar type of pain.

Hearing loss in new born is usually detected using devices such as OAE and BERA. These are test done on babies to look for early detection of hearing loss. Often the results need to be repeated if some abnormalities are detected. Early rehablitation of the child using newer devices with better outcomes: Cochlear Implants, middle ear implants or powerful hearing aids. The most important aspect of hearing loss in children is early detection and early rehablitation.

Patients suffering from sleep apnea literally choke on their own tissues within the throat when sleeping and the resultant fragmented nightly rest can lead to serious medical conditions if left untreated.

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For more than a century, doctors have used skin tests to help diagnose allergies. During these tests, your skin is exposed to allergy-causing substances (allergens) and then is observed for signs of an allergic reaction.

Along with your medical history, skin tests can confirm whether signs and symptoms, such as sneezing, wheezing and skin rashes, are caused by allergies. They can also identify the specific substances that trigger allergic reactions. Such information can help your doctor develop an allergy treatment plan that may include allergen avoidance, medications or allergy shots (immunotherapy).

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Ear pain is one of the most painful condition one can have probably after child birth pain and tooth ache. There are many causes of ear pain. It could be a simple infection of the ear canal either bacterial or fungal. The other common cause is fluid in the middle ear.

Treatment is simple such as ear cleaning using suction by ENT specialist, antibiotic drops or anti fungal ear drops or relieve of middle ear fluid with a simple surgery.

CPAP is a device which contantly pushes air into the air way while sleeping to prevent an apnea spell. In todays technology; the CPAP machines are highly titrated and regulated which gives maximum comfort to the patient. It is gold standard to use a CPAP and it avoids a surgical procedure.

“Hearing loss develops slowly as a result of exposure to continuous or intermittent loud noise at work place” by Dr Kuljit Singh News Straits Times Malaysia 27 February 2009

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Sleep apnea is when breathing stops while sleeping. It is a non painful condition and patients usually do not know that they are apneic. The complications of sleep apnea are mostly related to heart, lungs and other psychological problems. To diagnose sleep apnea; a sleep study is done either partial or complete known as polysomnography [PSG].

The treatment could be conservative such life style change, surgical or on CPAP machine.

Snoring is often a social problem and a great disturbance to your sleeping partner. It is caused by the vibrations of the soft palate and tissues surrounding the throat during deep sleep. Many patients; have a complete or partial nose blockage which contributes to snoring. Simple treatment of the nose using medication or RF surgery helps. Sometimes surgery of the palate may give good results.

Sleep apnea van be related with snoring

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