Ear infections and treatment,surgery is not the only way out of it.

Most of the children suffers from fluid in the middle ear and surgery is not the only way out of it. However. a bacterial nasal spray can have the same effect in some children, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

To investigate the response the study covered 60 children who divided for three groups of children that suffers from glue ear, or secretory otitis media (SOM).
The first group received a solution containing Streptococcus bacteria, the second a solution with Lactobacillus bacteria, and the third a bacteria-free solution (placebo). These solutions were then sprayed into the children's noses for ten days.

“In the group given the Streptococcus spray, a third of the children got much better or were cured completely, while only one child given the bacteria-free spray recovered”, says Susann Skovbjerg, a doctoral student at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Bacteriology. “Treatment with Lactobacillus bacteria was less effective”.
theres a number different types of bacteria and the type that used in the study belongs to the viridans group. The researchers have various theories as to why a spray with these bacteria can help children with glue ear.

Studies of bacterial sprays have been performed before, including in patients who have had a throat infection and children suffering from recurring acute ear infections, and now their effect has been studied in children with glue ear. “but more studies are needed to confirm the results and look at what actually happens in the children treated with the spray”, Skovbjerg says. “bacterial sprays may come to be part of the treatment for glue ear, and They could be used to help the body to heal itself and so perhaps enable some children to avoid an operation”.