A boy with ASOM undergoing treatment with penicillin therapy for 7 days now presents with subsidence of pain and persistence of deafness, Diagnosis is:
Ototoxicity
Secretory otitis media
Adhesive otitis media
Tympanosclerosis
Inadequate antibiotic treatment of acute suppurative otitis media may inactivate infection but fail to resolve it completely.Low grade infection lingers on which acts as a stimulus for the mucosa to secrete more mucus which leads to development of serous/secretory otitis media.