Pain inside the ear

The pain inside the ear is often strong enough, it leads to a significant decrease in working capacity, and its complications are fraught with serious consequences.

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Diseases that cause pain inside the ear

If you have painful sensations in your ear, you should immediately make an appointment with a doctor, in exceptional cases you can even call an ambulance. There are many factors that can cause these frequent "ear problems". The most common of these are: 

• Otitis (middle, outer); 
• Injuries and foreign bodies; 
• Tonsillitis; 
• "Bung"

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Otitis

This is called ear inflammation. There are several kinds of this disease: 

• If the middle ear is inflamed, the disease is called otitis media. Perhaps, this is the most common cause of complaints among patients with ENT doctors. Bring her into the body from the nose and throat viruses, bacteria. This problem is most common in children, but adults can also be found among patients. Often, the accompanying syndrome is an increase in temperature.

Treatment of the disease, as a rule, reduces to the adoption of antibiotics, antiseptics. Often use fizioprotsedury, compresses. It is also desirable to comply with bed rest; 

• If you have problems with the ear canal (external otitis), there are reddening and swelling, which is not so difficult to notice. In addition to soreness, the ear can be itchy.

To get rid of this problem it is possible with the help of gauze tampons moistened with alcohol (70%), compresses and physiotherapy procedures. 

• Particularly severe complications can occur with inflammation of the inner ear. In such cases, you need bed rest, antibacterial treatment. If it does not work, surgical intervention is possible.

However, even at normal temperature and the absence of intense pain, it is necessary to turn to LOR, because its complications are fraught with hearing impairment. Also be ready to that to get rid of an otitis it will be possible only in one and a half-two weeks.

Injuries and foreign bodies

This problem also often concerns children who, when playing with small things, can shove any of them into the ear, resulting in inflammation of the organ, worsening of hearing. It is also possible for an insect to enter the ear canal.

In each of these cases, you should not try to get yourself a nuisance object from yourself or the child. It is necessary to go to the doctor immediately! In cases where the living organisms penetrate the ear and the integrity of the tympanic membrane is preserved, often it is only necessary to pour into the damaged organ slightly heated (up to 37 degrees) alcohol, after which the dead insect can easily be washed with water, let out from the syringe. If the objects are "lifeless", a special tweezer is used to remove them.

If you get an ear injury after a stroke or a fall, the specialist's help should also be urgent! After all, the consequences of such damage are bleeding, noise, acute pain in the ear. To avoid complications, first head to the injured side, cover the ear with a sterile bandage and call an ambulance.

Tonsillitis

Everyone knows under the guise of angina. Painful sensations in this case spread to the sky, throat, ear. The reason for this common disease is in most cases the lowered immunity of the patient. In addition to pain in these organs, complaints of apathy, lethargy, difficulty in swallowing, eating food.

Treatment of angina is in the use of antibiotics, as well as the use of various procedures, for example, washing the tonsils.

Sulfur "cork"

Also is one of the frequent enough complaints when coming to an ENT doctor. It is caused by, as a rule, improper hygiene, predisposition, consisting in excessive release of sulfur by special glands; genetics - a special structure of the auricle.

Cork may not show itself for a long time, however, a frequent symptom is a significant deterioration in hearing, especially when bathing.

It is strictly forbidden to pull plugs independently! Thus, you can not only not help, but also hurt yourself, damaging the eardrum. The doctor will first examine the ear and determine the type of cork. In cases where it is dry and hard, it is first softened with hydrogen peroxide.

Wash the stopper with a syringe without a needle. This procedure is painless and is easily tolerated by patients.

Who should I contact if you have pain in my ear?

The pain inside the ear can become a hindrance to normal perception of all sounds of the world, so in case of the slightest hints on its appearance, we recommend that you do not wait and do not suffer, but immediately go to an ENT doctor who will solve the problem as quickly and painlessly as possible!