Medical Service for Foreigners

A) Ear diseases

1)Otalgia

• External otitis: due to over excoriation of the air canal
• Otitis media: accompanying any upper respiratory  infection,common cold,influenza and so on

2)Hearing loss

• Impacted cerumen: the most commom cause
• Sudden deafness: sensorineural,unilateral,wake up deaf in one ear：
  associated symptoms；vertigo,sick,vomit
• Otosclerosis: the most commom cause of conductive hearing loss
• Endolymphatic hydrops(Meniere`s disease): sensorineural hearing loss,progressive,recruitment of loudness
• Acoustic neuroma: tinnitus as the first symptom;vertigo and facial paralysis in late stages

3)Vertigo(Dizziness): Def.;presenting a disturbance in a patient`s subjective sensation of relationship to space

• Cholesteatoma
• Acute toxic labyrinthitis; the most frequent syndrome of whirling vertigo
• Hydrops of the labyrinth(Meniere`s disease)
• Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
• Labirynthitis

• Cerebro vascular diseases
• Tumors
• Cerebeller atrophy
• Migraine     etc.

4)Facial paralysis: injury of the motor position of the facial nerve produces involving

B)Nose diseases

1)Acute rhinitis

• a common cold is caused by a virus
• typical symptoms are a feeling of irritation and a burning sensation of the nasopharynx

2)Allergic rhinitis

• symptoms including mucous drainage,stuffiness,sneezing and itching
• pollens-seasonal;house dust-perennial

3)Paranasal sinusitis

• most often accompanying the common cold
• localized pain and tenderness over the involved sinus
• in maxillary sinusitis,the pain is over the cheek and the upper teeth

4)Hypertrophied turbinates

5)Nasal polyps

6)Non allergic vasomotor rhinitis

7)Furunculosis of the vestibule

8)Foreign bodies: purulent nasal discharge

C)Diseases of the pharynx

1)Acute pharyngitis

• the most common
• viral or bacterial
• symptoms: sore throat,difficulty in swallowing and mild fever

2)Acute epiglottitis

• common in young children,ages 1 to 5years
• respiratory difficulty

3)Tonsillitis

• severe sore throat
• swallowing difficulty
• high fever

D)Diseases of the larynx

1)Acute laryngitis:hoarseness within 2 weeks

2)Carcinoma of the larynx

• hoarseness lasting longer than 2 weeks demand visualization of the larynx
• laryngectomy or radiation therapy

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