A boy with ASOM undrgoing treatment with penicillin therapy for 7 days now presents with subsidence of pain and persistence of deafness, diagnosis is –
Correct Answer: Secretory otitis media
Description: Inadequate antibiotic treatment of acute suppurative otitis media may inactivate infection but fail to resolve it completely.
Low grade infection lingers on which acts as a stimulus for the mucosa to secrete more mucus which leads to development of serous/secretory otitis media.
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