Sometimes you hear a ringing in your ear, and your own voice seems strange. Particular discomfort occurs when both ears are involved in the pathological process. What can cause this?
A lump behind the ear is a round, usually painless formation that appears due to an enlarged cervical lymph node. This pathology is not a disease in itself and does not pose any danger to human health, but it often causes discomfort.
Hearing impairment is a reduction in a person's ability to perceive sounds in the environment, either partially or completely. Some reduction in the ability to perceive and understand sounds is called hearing loss, and a complete loss of the ability to hear is called deafness.
Tinnitus is the sensation of noise in the ears in the absence of an external noise source. Approximately 15% of the adult population has experienced tinnitus at one time or another, 0.5-2% suffer severely from it. Although children also sometimes experience tinnitus, it quickly passes for them and they do not pay attention to it. Most often, tinnitus begins at the age of 50-60 years.
Deafness, unlike blindness, is not a clearly defined disability, so any degree of hearing loss can be described as deafness. It is an annoying handicap for those affected and those around them, as it reduces the ability to communicate. There are approximately 3 million adults in the UK with hearing loss.
Although temporary hearing loss in children due to effusion in the middle ear cavity ("glued ear") is quite common, permanent deafness occurs much less frequently (in infants, approximately 1-2 per 1000 children). But it is important to remember that since young children are affected, they need to be given all possible help aimed at restoring hearing so that these children can learn to speak.
Acute purulent inflammation of the middle ear. As a rule, it occurs after an upper respiratory tract infection. People of any age are ill, but children are more often affected. The patient complains of ear pain, fever, a feeling of pressure in the ear, and hearing loss.
Otorrhea is a discharge from the ear, which can be serous, serous-hemorrhagic or purulent. Otalgia, fever, itching, dizziness, tinnitus and hearing loss can be observed simultaneously.
