During our daily work, we find that there is disadvantage using traditional MEBT for treating ear burn, especially when the sick children are unwilling to cooperate for drug application, which seriously impacts the curative effect of MEBO because the ointment on the wounds is easy to be wiped off by external objects. 

Furthermore, because ear burn is usually accompanied with more serious burn wounds in other parts, such as eye burn or respiratory tracts burn, the treatment and nursing to the ears burn is usually ignored by medical staff and relatives of the patients.

The ear burn was treated with MEBO gauze in our hospital that ideally prevented perichondritis of auricle without the prohibitition of medical conditions and had the advantages of convenient operation and easy controlling. 

Moreover, treated with this therapy, the wounds could heal soon with little scar. 

The skin and subcutaneous tissue of external ear are thin, so the ear burn frequently interfere auricular cartilage. 

Besides, it was near hair and was connected with external auditory canals, and ears themselves were too irregular and rough to be cleaned. 

Consequently, ear burn was usually complicated with infections and suppurative perichondritis of auricle post injured.

The author found that MEBO has the following characteristics in treating uppurative perichondritis of auricle: 

1. Ideal analgesic effect. Disinfectant wasn’t needed and the gauze wouldn’t stick to the wounds when dressing was changed. Resolutely, it was easy for the patients to accept because of the slight pain. 

2. Generally, general antibiotic was used instead of massive-dose broad-spectrum and high-grade antibiotic. This reduced the economic burdens of the patients.

3. To some extent, it could reduce the pain when the patients receive the excisions of necrotic cartilage under systemic anesthesia, and the rate of deformity healing. 

When application, please note: 

1. If the patients have burn wounds in auricular conchas but not in external auditory canals, put dry cotton ball at the opening of external auditory canals and timely change wet cotton to prevent the infections of external auditory canals caused by flow-in secretion.

2. When external ear suffers from swelling pain, ache and compression pain, firmly diagnose it as suppurative perichondritis of auricle. It should be incised for drainage at the earlier stage and the cut should be large enough.

3. The patients with ear burn had better use small pillows, nursing of the ear should be strengthened, try to keep heads in elevated position to benefit venous return and swelling regression.

Full Report: Experience with MEBO Gauze In Treating 84 Cases of Ear Burn , The Chinese Journal of Burns Wounds and Surface Ulcers 2003, （2）：116-118