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Slime-Like Substance Blamed for Chronic Ear Infections
TUESDAY, July 11 (HealthDay News) -- If your young child has an ear infection that won't go away, he may be struggling with a slime-like substance in the middle ear that experts call bacterial "biofilm."
This biofilm makes it harder for antibiotics to do their jobs, leading to long-lasting ailments. Bacteria appear to be hiding in this usually protective slimy film in kids with chronic middle ear infections, a new study found.
The discovery isn't going to lead to any new treatments right away, but they may eventually help doctors get a better handle on one of the plagues of childhood. Ear infections, in fact, are the most common illnesses that bring children to doctors.
"It's a particularly big disadvantage to working moms," said study co-author Dr. J. Christopher Post, director of pediatric otolaryngology at Allegheny General Hospital, in Pittsburgh. "It really compromises a woman's ability to participate in the workforce."
Ear infections are so common in kids -- affecting eight or nine of every 10 children -- because the developing middle ear sometimes cannot fully drain fluid, said Dr. Craig Derkay, a professor of otolaryngology and pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School, in Norfolk. Also, the immune system in a child isn't fully developed and can't tackle infections, he added.
Over-prescribing of antibiotics, meanwhile, has made matters worse by helping ear-infection germs develop immunity to existing drugs, he said.
Post and his colleagues in Pittsburgh and Wisconsin studied mucosal tissue from the middle ears of 50 children with chronic ear infections. Some of the children got ear infections repeatedly, while others continually suffered from fluid in their ears.
All the children were scheduled to undergo operations to install drainage tubes in their ears.
The researchers found evidence of mucosal biofilms in 46 of the 50 children. They didn't find any biofilms in another group of eight healthy children and adults whose ears were studied as they underwent cochlear implant operations for hearing loss.
The findings are published in the July 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Biofilms are very common in nature, Post said, such as the slime you might find on rocks next to a pond. "It's like a little city of bacteria," he said, in which germs communicate with each other and are well-protected against the outside world.
The new research suggests that treating chronic ear infections with antibiotics is "not helpful," Post said, adding that "biofilms by their nature are very resistant to antibiotics."
Instead, researchers must find another approach that either gets rid of biofilms or stunts their growth, perhaps by flooding the ear with "good bacteria," Post said. That approach is known as probiotics.
For now, the research is "just sort of an explanation as to why not all children are responding to these antibiotics" and need to have drainage tubes put in, said Derkay.
Studies Highlight Strategies to Reduce Ovarian, Breast Cancer Risk
New research confirms that removing the ovaries can drastically reduce the risk of ovarian cancer in women who have certain genetic mutations. And all women can cut their risk of breast cancer by losing weight after menopause.
In the first study, a team of international researchers followed a group of women with mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes for an average of 3.5 years. Women who have these genetic mutations are known to have a much higher rate of breast and ovarian cancers. Some of the women had their ovaries removed as a preventive measure to reduce their risk of cancer, while others did not. The procedure is called oophorectomy. The researchers found that removing the ovaries reduced the risk of ovarian cancer by 80 percent.
"The risk of ovarian cancer was reduced by 80 percent, but seven women still got cancer after their ovaries were removed, so there's still a 4 percent chance of having cancer after oophorectomy," said one of the study's authors, Dr. Steven Narod, a Canada Research Chair in Breast Cancer and a professor of public health sciences at the Centre for Research in Women's Health in Toronto.
Narod said the researchers had hoped to see an even greater reduction in risk, because when they studied women with these genetic mutations after prophylactic removal of their breasts, none of the women developed breast cancer.
In the second study, researchers gathered information on weight status throughout the lives of more than 87,000 postmenopausal women in the Nurses' Health Study. The researchers found that weight gain, especially after menopause, can increase the risk of breast cancer, but that post-menopausal weight loss can reduce the risk of breast cancer.
"The good news is that it's never too late to lose weight to reduce your risk of breast cancer, but the best thing is to avoid weight gain in the first place," said the study's lead author, Heather Eliassen, an instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard School of Medicine and Public Health, in Boston.
Results of these studies are in the July 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Narod's study included 1,828 women from Canada, the United States, Europe and Israel known to carry either the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation. Before the study began, 555 of the women had their ovaries and fallopian tubes removed. Another 490 women had them removed during the study period, while 783 did not have the procedure.
Thirty-two cases of ovarian cancer were found in the women who still had their ovaries intact. Just seven of the women who underwent the procedure were diagnosed with what appeared to be ovarian cancer, Narod said.
The cancers that developed in the women who'd had their ovaries removed occurred in the peritoneum, the lining of the abdomen. Narod said this tissue is similar to ovarian tissue. Unlike the ovaries, the peritoneum cannot be removed.
The researchers estimated the cumulative 20-year risk of ovarian cancer for women who have had their ovaries removed at about 4 percent. Without the procedure, about 40 percent of women with the BRCA1 mutation can expect to develop ovarian cancer. For the average woman, the rate is about 1.4 percent over a lifetime, Narod said.
Dr. Jay Brooks, chairman of hematology/oncology at the Ochsner Clinic Health System in Baton Rouge, La., said, "If you have a BRCA mutation, and you have not had your ovaries and uterus removed, they need to be removed once you have completed childbearing. It's the single greatest thing to do to reduce ovarian-cancer risk, and it reduces the risk of breast cancer, too."
From the large group of women involved in the Nurses' Health Study, Eliassen and her colleagues discovered 4,393 cases of invasive breast cancer. When they looked at the effect of weight changes that had occurred since these women were 18 years old, the researchers saw a definite link between weight and breast-cancer risk.
In fact, the researchers concluded that 15 percent of these breast-cancer cases might be attributable to weight gains of just 2 kilograms or more since age 18. Two kilograms is about four-and-a-half pounds.
Women who gained 55 pounds or more had almost a 50 percent higher risk of developing breast cancer than women who had maintained their weight. Those who gained about 22 pounds since the age of 18 had about a 20 percent higher risk of breast cancer.
The good news from this study, however, was that women who lost 22 pounds or more after menopause and kept the weight off reduced their risk of breast cancer by nearly 60 percent.
Eliassen said that after menopause, the hormone estrogen is made primarily in fat tissue, and the more fat you have, the more estrogen your body will produce. This can increase breast-cancer risk, because many breast cancers are fueled by estrogen.
