According to the recent study, children with chronic ear irritation can feel changes in their sense of taste. These changes in the sense of taste are connected with obesity. Chronic otitis media is a disease that results into the middle ear infection and irritation.

Il Ho Shin, of Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea, and colleagues examined the changing sense of 42 children with chronic otitis media with effusion (COME), who were placed with small plastic tubes in their eardrum, and a control group of 42 children without COME. The four standard taste solution used in chemical test were sugar, critic acid, and salt and quinine hydrochloride.

Researchers revealed that the threshold on the front part of tongue were higher in chronic media group. They further said that tests exposed that children with COME had higher body weight in comparison to the children in the control group.

In fact, the changing sense of bitter and sour taste were also at the higher level in the children with COME.

Although, most of the children have diagnosed properly, but 10% among them again develop Otitis media with effusion, which causes hearing disturbance in children.