A comparative study of common ear morbidity pattern among the primary school children of an urban slum of Kolkata and rural area of Hooghly.

Bandyopadhyay, Raktim; Sengupta, Arunabha; Dasgupta, Aparajita; Biswas, Romy; Mukherjee, Sujishnu; Biswas, Akhil Bandhu

A comparative study of common ear morbidity pattern among the primary school children of an urban slum of Kolkata and rural area of Hooghly.

Date

2005-08-21

Authors

Bandyopadhyay, Raktim

Abstract

A cross-sectional, clinical and epidemiological study was undertaken among 627 primary school children (rural 145, urban 482) to compare the common ear morbidity pattern between an urban slum of kolkata and a rural area of Hooghly. Middle ear pathology was found to be present in 20% and 12.6% among rural and urban students respectively. Cerumen in the external auditory canal was the commonest clinical finding in both the areas and was found to be present in 35.86% of rural and 30.70% of urban population respectively. Smoke nuisance, bathing in open ponds and overcrowding were some of the predisposing factors causing ear diseases, like chronic suppurative otitis media and serous otitis media.

Citation

Bandyopadhyay R, Sengupta A, Dasgupta A, Biswas R, Mukherjee S, Biswas AB. A comparative study of common ear morbidity pattern among the primary school children of an urban slum of Kolkata and rural area of Hooghly. Journal of the Indian Medical Association. 2005 Aug; 103(8): 428, 430-2