Original Research Article
Year: 2022 | Month: July-September | Volume: 7 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 140-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijshr.20220721
The Relation Between Vitamin D Level with Acute Otitis Media and its Recurrence in Children, Aden, Yemen
Saleh Mohamed Abobaker Alshaiby
Associate Professor of ENT, Department of Special Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Aden, Yemen
ABSTRACT
Background: Acute otitis media are most common pediatric diseases. Lack of vitamin D is a risk of otitis media and its recurrences.
Objective: To investigate the relation between vitamin D level and otitis media and its recurrences.
Materials and method: This retrospective study conducted in Aden, between January 2019 and December 2020.
Results: Eighty-five children with otitis media were studied and they were (51.8%) males and (48.2%) females. The mean age of patients was 5.6 ± 2.8 years. Most of the patients (56.5%) were between 1 to 5 years old.
Fever represented (56.5%) in the age group 1 – 5 years old. The difference between values is statistically significance (p = 0.000).
In the age group 1-5 years we found congested hyperamic tympanic membrane (43.5%) followed by the bulge tympanic membrane (9.4%).
Highly significant differences found between otoscopic findings and the age groups (p = 0.000).
Recurrent attack of acute otitis media seem to be higher in the age group 1 – 5 years old; (p = 0.041).
Most (82.3%) of the patients had deficient vitamin D level followed by patients with insufficient vitamin D level (11.8%).
The recurrent attacks in the deficient group represented with 3 times (30.5%) followed by 4 times (22.4%). Highly significant differences were found between recurrent attacks and level of vitamin D (p = 0.000).
Conclusion: Our study showed relation between abnormal level of vitamin D and recurrent acute otitis media mostly in the age group from 1-5 years.
Keywords: Relation, vitamin D, otitis media, children.