Otitis in small animals - how to avoid common mistakes | Otitisi kod pasa i mačaka – kako grešiti što manje
2011
Popović, N., Fakultet veterinarske medicine, Beograd (Serbia)
Diseases of the outer and middle ear (otitis externa and otitis media) are frequent clinical problem which mostly approached in the wrong way. We believe that the approach to a diseased ear in dogs or cats by practicing veterinarian in our country is narrowed down to cleaning the ear, usually with cotton wool and hydrogen peroxide, and then by applying ear drops for veterinary or human use over the next few days. A somewhat more conscientious approach implies treatment using antibiotics, topical/o systemic, but based on an antibiogram. If the presence of a foreign body is suspected, the veterinarian will use an otoscope, and this is where the entire diagnosis approach in our condition usually ends. Such procedures most often fail to resolve the problem, so that the disease recurs after a certain time or becomes chronic recurrent otitis externa, which is one of the biggest problems in dermatology. Experience shows that veterinarians here are generally not familiar with the pathogenosis of outer and middle ear infections, and that this is the reason why they approach diagnostics and therapy in the wrong way. The most important thing is to have in mind that the bacteria and fungi linked with a pathological process in the ear canal are merely opportunistic microorganisms, and never primary pathogens, themselves responsible for otitis externa. Antibiotic or antimicotic treatment does not cure the basic disease which led to the inflammation, but only its consequences.
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