ArticleClinical and experimental otorhinolaryngology2013
Impact of sulphurous water politzer inhalation on audiometric parameters in children with otitis media with effusion.
Article in Clinical and experimental otorhinolaryngology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Clinical efficacy of medical hydrology: an umbrella review.International journal of biometeorology · 2021Pooled it
- Resolution of Otitis Media with Effusion in Adults after a Three-Day Course of Treatment with a Manosonic Nebulizer-A Pilot Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Trial
- From catheterization to crenotherapy: historical and functional perspective on the Eustachian tube.European journal of translational myology · 2025Article
- Sulphurous thermal water inhalation impacts respiratory metabolic parameters in heavy smokers.International journal of biometeorology · 2019Article
- Biological Effects of Thermal Water-Associated Hydrogen Sulfide on Human Airways and Associated Immune Cells: Implications for Respiratory Diseases.Frontiers in public health · 2019Review
- Sulfur as a signaling nutrient through hydrogen sulfide.Annual review of nutrition · 2014Review
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Abstract
objectivesThe positive effects of spa therapy on ear, nose, and throat pathology are known but robust literature in this field, is still lacking. The aim of this study was to assess through a retrospective analysis, the effects on otitis media with effusion of Politzer endotympanic inhalation of sulphurous waters in children aged 5-9 years.
methodsA cohort of 95 patients was treated with Politzer insufflations of sulphurous water: 58 patients did a cycle consisting of a treatment of 12 days per year for three consecutive years; 37 patients followed the same procedure for 5 years consecutively. The control population was represented by untreated, age-matched children. A standard audiometric test was used before and after each cycle of treatment.
resultsOne cycle of Politzer inhalation of sulphur-rich water improved the symptoms. Three cycles definitively stabilized the improvement of hearing function.
conclusionOur results show that otitis media with effusion in children can be resolved by an appropriate non-pharmacological treatment of middle ear with sulphur-rich water.
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