On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 11:55 AM, Catherine Creel wrote:
A look at Gray's Anatomy online will show how the
ear is connected to the entire body.
The middle ear, yes has the eustachian tube connecting to the
nasopharynx, yes, but there is no patent connection directly from the
outer ear to the middle ear. The External Auditory Meatus is lined with
"skin" and squamous epithelium, neither of which are any degree
permeable under normal conditions.
BTW, Gray's is ancient and the diagrams, although classic, not the
best. I'll take the work of Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy any day
and the medical illustrations of of Frank Netter are without compare. I
have several others, many stained with "cadaver grease" from my days in
the anatomy labs of the schools I attended.
Now, having said that I am familiar with certain bacteria to which skin
is not a barrier but if you were to take cultures of the "germs" that
inhabit the outer or middle ear I do not believe you would find these
places incubators of the strains normally associated with either a upper
or lower UTI. If I'm wrong that's fine I'm willing to learn but I'm not
going to just accept anyones word that flies in the face or reason.
All I'm looking for is an explanation that contains a bit of logic.
Sorry if I'm getting off on the wrong foot here with you good folks but
I can not just throw an entire body of knowledge out the window along
with my eight years of formally studying it, just because some one says
it all aint so. I'm also willing to learn. That's why I'm here.
Thank you.
Gary L. Green, B.Sc., D.C.
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