Hearing loss and earache after swimming may result in oily ears.
Hearing plummets as cerumen expands in contact with water.
Summer suffering from external otitis, otitis media patients more than in the past, if swimming lovers ear water, do not dig.
Probably caused by pool water getting in your ears.
In general, water in the ear can be drained out by beating one leg on the same side.
Ceruminous gland of the external ear canal produces strong oil. The thick oil blocks the ear canal and affects hearing.
When the external ear canal is not completely blocked, it is mostly asymptomatic, and hearing loss will occur when it is completely blocked.
Cerumen pressing on the eardrum can cause vertigo, tinnitus, and hearing loss.
If cerumen presses on the skin of the posterior wall of the external auditory canal, it can cause a reflex cough by irritating the auricular branch of the vagus nerve.
If water expands, it can cause hearing to plummet,
In summer, there are more patients with external otitis and otitis media than usual, and some otitis media is caused by water choking the throat while swimming.
If the bacteria in the water spread along the eustachian tube to the mucous membrane of the middle ear cavity, resulting in fluid accumulation, obstruction and inflammation of the middle ear.
Acute otitis media will have deep ear pain, hearing loss, fever and other symptoms, usually within 1 to 2 days after swimming.
It occurs in children, people with poor resistance, usually more unilateral infection.
The occurrence of external otitis is related to too much earwax in patients, after swimming, the earwax swelling, causing inflammation of the external ear canal, when the ear is pulled, the pain is obvious, then you must seek medical attention, usually regularly clean cerumen, can reduce the chance of external ear canal inflammation.
In order to reduce the occurrence of ear diseases, swimmers are reminded that when the ear water, do not pick.
Because this will damage the external ear canal wall, eardrum, cause external otitis or otitis media.
The correct method is to swim ashore, turn the head to one side, and pull the auricle backward and upward with the hand, and jump with one leg, the water in the ear can be out.
If you have water in your ears that you cannot handle, see a doctor as soon as possible.
If water choking into the nasal cavity, into the ear, can also cause otitis media. Once the nasal cavity is flooded, the correct way to blow the nose drainage is to press one side of the nostril, the other side of the nostril slowly blow the water, repeated 3 to 4 times, be careful not to exert too much force, so as not to cause otitis media and sinusitis.
Chronic otitis media, tympanic membrane perforation or discharge of pus, are not suitable for swimming.
