The common cold is a disease that causes a number of unpleasant manifestations from the human body: perspiration and sore throat, nasal congestion, hyperthermia. Often patients complain that they have a cold for their ears. Since from time to time cold cures overcome even the most hardened, everyone should know how to be treated if the ears are stuffed with a cold, and what to do if as a result of a cold the ears are laid away from the village where you can get qualified medical help.
Why lays its ears with colds?
The nose, throat and ears represent a single system, so a violation in one of the organs provokes pathological changes in the other. So if the nasal sinuses are clogged with mucus, then this results in a disturbance of the air current in the eustachian tube located in the ear. The sensation that, during the cold, the ears laid, indicates that the inflammatory process has begun, which has captured the middle ear. Subsequently, quite noticeable pain, hearing loss, crackling in the ears and purulent discharge from the auditory can be added.
Ears are laid with colds - treatment
Zalozhennost ears for colds - an occasion to consult a specialist-otolaryngologist, because often otitis media (inflammation of the middle ear) becomes a prerequisite for the development of hearing loss. Along with anti-catarrhal and antibacterial drugs, the doctor appoints:
- drops for the ears (Anauran, Otipax, Otium, Sofrax , etc.);
- ointments (Oxycorta, Hydrocortisone)
- solutions based on sea salt to wash the nasal sinuses (eg, Rivanol);
- phytospeces for the ears (Reamed, Tentorium, etc.);
- therapeutic compresses on the parotid zone.
In some cases physiotherapeutic procedures are shown.
Treatment of the ears for colds with folk remedies
If the inflammatory process began far from the city, for example, in a hiking trip, as well as as an ambulance for stuffy ears, you can use the methods of traditional medicine:
- Make a turundock out of cotton wool, moisten it in a water-alcohol solution and place it in the ear canal. On top of the ear should be covered with a warm kerchief.
- Use natural antibiotics - juice of onion or clove of garlic.
- Bake a small onion in the oven, and, cutting off a piece, put it in your ear.
- Vodka propolis, which is constant on vodka, perfectly replaces pharmaceutical drops.
- Effective means - infusion of laurel leaves, which are buried in the ears.
- Place tampons in the ear passages with a water infusion of chamomile, eucalyptus or marigold.
It is important to remember that all the indicated folk remedies can be used only if there are no purulent discharge from the ears.
Has laid down ears after colds
Sometimes it happens that a person has been treated for cold, and the feeling of stuffiness in the ears does not pass. This is a sign that the disease is not healed completely. In this case, you can use the following methods:
- Rinse the nasal passages with saline solution (1/2 teaspoon of sea salt for half a cup of water) and drip the nose with chemically vasoconstrictive drops.
- Inflate a balloon or blow air through a cocktail.
- Massaging the external ear.
- Imitate the process of chewing.
If an unpleasant sensation does not pass, then do not avoid a visit to the doctor. It is likely that a sulfur plug appeared in the ear. The otolaryngologist very quickly will wash a stopper from an ear, and the feeling zalozhennosti will disappear.
But to warm the area of the patient ear, picking in the ear canal, dripping boric or medical alcohol in any case impossible! Incorrect treatment can lead to serious complications, up to partial or complete deafness.