Abstract
Background: ENT disorders specially hearing impairment negatively impacts students’ development of academic, language and social skills. If left undiagnosed, these conditions may result in significant irreversible damage such as varying degree of hearing loss that can affect the social or professional performance of the individuals in later stages of life. Students going to government school in our country generally come from under privileged society. We investigated the occurrence of ENT diseases among various government school students in Kailali district.
 Methods: Nine government school of Kailai district were chosen at random. All students of those school present on the day of examination went routine ENT examinations. Brief history, if any, was recorded and findings were noted. The study was done throughout the month of September, 2013.
 Results: There were a total of 2256 students enrolled in the study. There were 1126 male and 1130 female students. Mean age of the students was 9.88 years. Forty One percent of students had ENT problems. Ear wax was the most common (17%) findings followed by suppurative ear diseases, otittis media with effusion as so on in decreasing frequency.
 Conclusions: ENT diseases and specially ear diseases are important health problems among school children of Nepal. Regular school health services, screening program, public awareness, improvement of socioeconomic status, timely referral to a specialist doctor can help to reduce the disease-related burden.
Highlights
ENT diseases may cause life-long or sometimes life-threatening problems
Chronic o s media is an inflammatory process of the middle ear and mastoid cavity, which may be related to several condi ons such as cholesteatoma and o s media with effusion (OME) etc
It mostly presents with a tympanic membrane (TM) abnormality, like perforation or retrac on, and suppura ve discharge noted in the external ear canal
Summary
Congenital or acquired hearing Impairment hinders students’ development of academic, language and social skills.[1] Chronic o s media is an inflammatory process of the middle ear and mastoid cavity, which may be related to several condi ons such as cholesteatoma and o s media with effusion (OME) etc. ENT disorders specially hearing impairment nega vely impacts students’ development of academic, language and social skills If le undiagnosed, these condi ons may result in significant irreversible damage such as varying degree of hearing loss that can affect the social or professional performance of the individuals in later stages of life. Regular school health services, screening program, public awareness, improvement of socioeconomic status, mely referral to a specialist doctor can help to reduce the diseaserelated burden
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