NO DRUG THERAPY IN PRIMARY CARE (REFERRAL & ADVICE)
Prominent or protruding ears are a cosmetic congenital variant with normal hearing; families are reassured and referred to plastic surgery or ENT if elective otoplasty is wanted. - Refer, with advice
Children follow the same pathway: recognise and refer. No primary-care medicine is implied.
No dose - referral pathway, no medicine given in primary care
Prominent or protruding ears are a cosmetic congenital variant with normal hearing; families are reassured and referred to plastic surgery or ENT if elective otoplasty is wanted.
- Confirm hearing is normal and there is no associated canal or middle-ear anomaly before treating this as purely cosmetic.
- No medicine is prescribed for this in primary care - this entry is for recognition and referral. Anything given is decided by the service it is referred to.