ear infection and treatment

notasperfectasyou · Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:26 am Post subject:

CPn Linked to Ear Infections

Kim doesn’t generally get ear infections. A few years before Kim started ABX, she had a serious ear pain that had her crying on the bathroom floor in the middle of the night. I ran out to the 24-hour pharmacy to get anything and everything that might help. I remembered this recently when I saw a note on a message board about a person with MS who was wondering about their recurring ear infections. A little bit of checking found that CPn has been associated with ear infections.

Q: Could recurring ear infections be associated with persistent Chlamydia pneumoniae infection?
A: Yes. Studies have shown that there is a likely relationship between CPn and middle ear infection, otitis media.

Storgaard, Merete et al. 1997 Chlamydia pneumoniae in Children with Otitis Media; Molin, Gianna et al. 2005 (abstract only) A population based seroepidemiological survey of Chlamydia pneumoniae infections in schoolchildren; Ogawa, Hidesato et al. 1992 (abstract only) Recovery of Chlamydia pneumoniae, in six patients with otitis media with effusion
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Anecdote · Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:26 pm Post subject:

Interesting, Ken,, because like Kim, I never thought I suffered from ear infections, yet I do now seem to have some sight hearing loss in my left ear, noticed before I started abx, still there but now getting no worse, maybe slightly better.

Sarah
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