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Tubes equalize pressure also called ventilation tubes, drainage tubes, tympanostomy tubes, or grommets. Your eardrum is a thin layer of tissue that separates the middle and outer ear. Middle ear eardrum protects you and helps you hear. During the procedure, a tube is inserted into a hole made in the eardrum in one or both ears. The tube drains fluid out of the ear. Over time, the tube falls out or is removed by a health care provider. You may need to have this procedure if you have a lot of ear infections. Myringotomy is a procedure for placing a tube through a hole in your eardrum.
You also may need this procedure if you have fluid or pressure in your middle ear caused by a blocked eustachian tube. Eustachian tube helps maintain equal pressure on both sides of the eardrum. A myringotomy tube can help you hear better. With the tube, you may get an ear infection and had a little less earache. Risk of myringotomy and pressure equalizing tubes may include the following: you may have an allergy to anesthetic drugs and having trouble breathing. A nerve may be damaged, which can reduce your ability to taste food after the procedure. After this procedure, you can get an infection and pus can leak out of your ears. Tissue near your eardrum can build up and block your PE tubes. A scar can cause your eardrum becomes stiff.
These problems can cause hearing loss. Do not put more eardrops in his ear before his health care provider says it's OK. Fluid can build up in the ear and eardrum can burst (rupture). Your hearing may get worse. Contact your health care provider if you have questions or concerns about, myringotomy or drug treatment. Contact your doctor before your child have a myringotomy if your child can not make its procedures, have a fever, have trouble hearing new, had pus leaking from his ears, your child pulls on his ear, using antibiotic eardrops, and has hearing loss, noise ringing in the ears or he feels dizzy. Eardrums can get a new hole in it, and your ears bleed.