Review of Chronic Secretory Otitis and Allergy

Rapp, Doris J.; Fahey, Daniel

doi:10.3109/02770907309108781

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“…Children with frequent episodes of acute otitis media often have signs of otosalpingitis (=serous otitis media, middle ear effusion) even during asymptomatic periods; this is a common cause of hearing loss (33). It has been reported that many children with such disease show signs of atopic allergy (3,5,7,16,20,36,39) and that appropriate allergological treatment has improved the situation of such children (39).…”

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Atopic Allergy and Immunoglobulins in Children With Adenoids and Recurrent Otitis Media

1976

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From 274 adenoidectomized children 1-16 years of age two groups were selected: children with a history of recurrent otitis media and/or otosalpingitis (middle ear effusion) and those in which nasal obstruction was the main symptom. In all, 154 children were subjected to an allergy investigation including history, skin tests, eye tests, determination of IgE and RAST, blood eosinophils and immunoglobulins G, A and M. No increased incidence of immunoglobulin deficiency was found in either group in comparison with unselected children. A family history of atopic disease and/or otitis media was highly overrepresented, especially in the children with recurrent otitis media as the reason for the adenoidectomy. Atopic diseases had occurred in 24.4% of the children. Furthermore, in both groups there was a high incidence of positive skin and eye tests. An increased incidence of eosinophila, positive RAST tests and elevated IgE levels were also found. In all, 39.6% of the children had two or more laboratory findings characteristic of the atopic state but no significant difference was found between the two groups. Possible connections between atopic allergy and recurrent otitis media are discussed.

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Atopic Allergy and Immunoglobulins in Children With Adenoids and Recurrent Otitis Media

1976

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“…This observation seems to have attracted little further attention until the 1930s, when Davison (1958) suggested that high carbohydrate diets contributed to the production of glue ear. This became known to ENT specialists as 'candy catarrh' (Davison 1966), a view that was accepted by some (Watkins, 1955;Rapp and Fahey. 1973), but felt to be responsible in only obscure cases by others (Freeman and Freeman, 1960).…”

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“…Further support for an infective cause was sought in the laboratory, but with no success (Lemon, 1962). By the 1970s otologists were starting to reject the viral theory (Dawes, 1970;Cowan and Brown, 1973;Rapp and Fahey, 1973), the lack of evidence being confirmed in an editorial in the Lancet (1975). The search for an infective agent continues, however.…”

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Causes of glue ear

Black

1985

J. Laryngol. Otol.

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Over the past one hundred years medical views on the cause of glue ear have frequently changed. The medical literature was reviewed to see if these changes reflected advances in the level of scientific support for different causes. This revealed that only a few of the many proposed causes command any scientific support. An explanation for the changing pattern of views on the aetiology of glue ear was therefore sought by considering secular changes in medical knowledge and belief in general. This suggested that the views held on the cause of glue ear at any given time are influenced and largely determined by the prevailing knowledge and beliefs of medicine as a whole. This phenomenon is not peculiar to glue ear--though conditions about which there is considerable uncertainty are probably more susceptible to such influences.

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The "Otitis-Prone" Condition

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Fahey²

1975

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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Review of Chronic Secretory Otitis and Allergy

Cited by 10 publications

References 38 publications

Atopic Allergy and Immunoglobulins in Children With Adenoids and Recurrent Otitis Media

Atopic Allergy and Immunoglobulins in Children With Adenoids and Recurrent Otitis Media

Causes of glue ear

The "Otitis-Prone" Condition

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