Medical MCQ-A boy with ASOM undrgoing treatment with penicillin therapy for 7 days now presents with subsidence of pain and persistence of deafness, diagnosis is -

A boy with ASOM undrgoing treatment with penicillin therapy for 7 days now presents with subsidence of pain and persistence of deafness, diagnosis is –

Ototoxicity

Secretory otitis media

Adhesive otitis media

Tympanosclerosis

Question Category:

ENT

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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