glue ear

Finally, parents of children with glue ear should be advised to stop smoking.

As a child she had glue ear and began to wear a hearing aid.

I recommend that anyone interested in glue ear should read it, but carefully.

Our study shows the long term spontaneous resolution of severe glue ear in children.

Glue ear, which frequently follows on from rhinitis, is also described there.

Successful treatment of glue ear by attention to underlying allergic disease has been previously reported.

Adenoidectomy will considerably reduce the overall duration of glue ear.

Based on the data from this and other work we can suggest certain recommendations for the clinical management of children with severe established glue ear.

The authors draw attention to what seems to be a large regional variation between rates of surgical treatment for glue ear.

Our previous work and that of others has shown the spontaneous resolution of glue ear in the short term.

Table V also shows that the longer glue ear had been present before the operation the longer the overall duration of the condition.

There was also 'more than a little evidence' that other people's cigarette smoke causes glue ear in children.

The combined adenoidectomy and ventilation tube groups had the shortest duration of glue ear.

Glue ear, or more precisely otitis media with effusion, is the major cause of hearing problems in children.

The condition, otitis media with effusion, or "glue ear," afflicts more than six million children a year.

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If there is a regional variation in the rate of treatment for glue ear need this be a sign that overtreatment occurs in some areas?

However, if it lingers or is thick and glue-like ("Glue Ear"), it can interfere with a child's hearing.

The 'glue ear' broadcast showed two little girls one waiting in pain for an NHS operation and another whose parents paid to go private.

Treatment of glue ear considerably shortened the time to fluid resolution, combined adenoidectomy and tube insertion being better than either procedure alone.

They base their recommendations on an analysis of 19 randomised controlled trials that examined the effectiveness of surgical interventions for glue ear.

Babies that are breastfed are less likely to fall victim to gastro-enteritis, respiratory infections and glue ear.

Altogether 471 tonsillectomies were performed for glue ear, all but nine of which were performed with other operations such as adenoidectomy.

O'Sullivan had a glue ear, a common ailment in young children and one which can cause infections and inflammation of the middle ear.

Editor,- The Effective Health Care bulletin No 4 on the management of persistent glue ear in children has caused controversy.