A Simple Guide to the Ear and Its Disorders, Diagnosis, Treatment and Related Conditions
A Simple Guide to the Ear and Its Disorders, Diagnosis, Treatment and Related Conditions
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Overview
This book describes The Ear and Its Disorders, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases
The ear is an organ of hearing and balance for the human body.
Tinnitus is a very frequent condition in older men and women.
There are some young people who are exposed to loud music and shooting rifles who also have it.
Ringing in Ears (Tinnitus) is the medical symptom of awareness of sound in the human ear or head when there is no outside source of the sounds.
Hearing Loss (Deafness) is a medical disorder that consists of partial or complete loss of hearing, also known as hearing impairment.
Otitis media is an inflammation or infection of the middle ear.
Eustachian Tube Blockage
Just 1 week ago I had a patient who came to the clinic complaining of blocked ear on the left side for about 3 weeks.
He saw his family doctor and was told that he had wax in the ear.
His doctor gave him some waxsol ear drops for his wax.
There was a buzzing sound in the ear and some pain.
The doctor referred him to an ENT specialist who then flushed out the wax for him but his ear blockage was still there.
The next day he asked his friend whom I treated earlier for benign positional vertigo where she was treated.
After hearing his long history, the first thing I did was to ask him to pinch his nose close and blow hard through his mouth (valsalva maneuver)
He did so and said that his left eardrum gave a popping sound and he could hear
A perforated eardrum is a hole in the thin layer of tissue called the eardrum that separates and protects the middle ear from the external ear.
Ear wax is very frequent in a family clinic setting.
Very often patients will complain of something stuck in the ear or reduced hearing.
Very often examination of the external ear with an otoscope will show the presence of ear wax.
If there is no pain or other ear history, I would go ahead with the ear syringing.
The ear syringe is filled with the warm water.
The patient’s head is then tilted straight or slightly toward the affected ear.
Syringing of the ear is started with the nozzle aimed inside the ear canal towards the top of the ear canal.
You may have to syringe a few times before you can see the wax coming out with water.
Ear canal polyps or aural polyps are benign swellings that develop from the skin or glands of the external ear canal or from the lining of the ear drum.
Meniere’s Disease
The main complaint was always dizziness or vertigo but seldom the associated tinnitus or deafness.
I always gave an injection of Stemetil (prochhlorperazine) which inadvertently will stop their dizziness within 10 minutes.
Acoustic Neuroma
Acoustic neuroma is a medical disorder where tumors of the vestibulocochlear nerve (eighth cranial nerve) grow from the Schwann cells of the nerve sheath.
Vertigo
Vertigo is the sensation of spinning or movement of the body even when the body is not moving.
There was a patient who had this spinning feeling for 2 months in spite of consulting several doctors, an ENT specialist and traditional Chinese doctors without improvement.
I taught her how to use the BPPV maneuver in the clinic.
One week later she was completely well with no more spinning head.
It is postulated that there may be a preceding upper respiratory tract infection before this occurrence of vertigo.
Vertigo is an unpleasant symptom where illusionary perception of movement (spinning or wobbling) of the body and of the surrounding area happens.
Balance is the 6th sense which many people have forgotten.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Ear
Chapter 2 Tinnitus (Updated)
Chapter 3 Hearing Loss (Updated)
Chapter 4 Otitis Media (Glue ear) (Updated)
Chapter 5 Eustachian Tube Blockage (Updated)
Chapter 6 Eardrum perforation (Updated)
Chapter 7 Ear Wax (Updated)
Chapter 8 Ear Canal Polyp (Updated)
Chapter 9 Meniere’s Disease (Updated)
Chapter 10 Acoustic Neuroma (Updated)
Chapter 11 Vertigo (Updated)
Epilogue
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940164899905 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Kenneth Kee |
| Publication date: | 05/05/2021 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Medical doctor since 1972.
Started Kee Clinic in 1974 at 15 Holland Dr #03-102, relocated to 36 Holland Dr #01-10 in 2009.
Did my M.Sc (Health Management ) in 1991 and Ph.D (Healthcare Administration) in 1993.
Dr Kenneth Kee is still working as a family doctor at the age of 70.
However he has reduced his consultation hours to 3 hours in the morning and 2 hours in
the afternoon.
He first started writing free blogs on medical disorders seen in the clinic in 2007 on http://kennethkee.blogspot.com.
His purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of his patients which is also his dissertation for his Ph.D (Healthcare Administration). He then wrote an autobiography account of his journey as a medical student to family doctor on his other blog http://afamilydoctorstale.blogspot.com
This autobiography account “A Family Doctor’s Tale” was combined with his early “A Simple Guide to Medical Disorders” into a new Wordpress Blog “A Family Doctor’s Tale” on http://ken-med.com.
From which many free articles from the blog was taken and put together into 1000 eBooks.
He apologized for typos and spelling mistakes in his earlier books.
He will endeavor to improve the writing in futures.
Some people have complained that the simple guides are too simple.
For their information they are made simple in order to educate the patients.
The later books go into more details of medical disorders.
He has published 1000 eBooks on various subjects on health, 1 autobiography of his medical journey, another on the autobiography of a Cancer survivor, 2 children stories and one how to study for his nephew and grand-daughter.
The purpose of these simple guides is to educate patient on health disorders and not meant as textbooks.
He does not do any night duty since 2000 ever since Dr Tan had his second stroke.
His clinic is now relocated to the Buona Vista Community Centre.
The 2 units of his original clinic are being demolished to make way for a new Shopping Mall.
He is now doing some blogging and internet surfing (bulletin boards since the 1980's) starting
with the Apple computer and going to PC.
The entire PC is upgraded by himself from XT to the present Pentium duo core.
The present Intel i7 CPU is out of reach at the moment because the CPU is still expensive.
He is also into DIY changing his own toilet cistern and other electric appliance.
His hunger for knowledge has not abated and he is a lifelong learner.
The children have all grown up and there are 2 grandchildren who are even more technically advanced than the grandfather where mobile phones are concerned.
This book is taken from some of the many articles in his blog (now with 740 posts) A Family Doctor’s Tale.
Dr Kee is the author of:
"A Family Doctor's Tale"
"Life Lessons Learned From The Study And Practice Of Medicine"
"Case Notes From A Family Doctor"