During the holidays, bathing in the warm sea is overshadowed by a problem such as "swimmer's ear" - this syndrome develops if moisture is constantly present in the external auditory canal. The problem is familiar to athletes involved in the pool, as well as to dive enthusiasts. Consider how to behave, if after bathing has laid the ear.
Features of the structure of the hearing aid
When water gets into your ear, it can cause panic. some people believe that it has penetrated "directly to the head" and even threatens them with a brain infection. But from the school course of anatomy it is known that a person has an external, middle and inner ear. Water enters only the outer one, that is, into the ear canal, at the end of which there is a tympanic membrane, acting as a barrier for the liquid. Thus, if the external ear is laid with water, it will not penetrate into the middle or inner.
However, if during diving to drink water through the nose, it can get into the Eustachian tube - a narrow channel connected with the middle ear. In this case, a person will experience greater discomfort and not only stasis, but also "lumbago".
What to do if the ear has been poured with water?
It is quite simple to extract the liquid that has fallen into the external ear. Someone is helped by jumping on one leg with a bowed head, while the sharp movements are made with the palm of your hand - it is pressed and pulled from the ear, creating pressure inside.
There is also a more tranquil method to get rid of water if the ear is laid. You need to lie on your side, swallow several times and try to move your ears. Water should pour out.
If you have cotton wool at hand, you can fold a thin flagellum from it and insert it into the ear canal, as far as possible, and then lie down alone. Such a tampon will absorb liquid.
How to remove water from the middle ear?
If after the action of the water, which has got through the Eustachian tube, the ear has laid down, cotton woolen coats, moistened in heated boric alcohol (it should not be hot!) Help to get rid of unpleasant sensations. Also, the symptoms of congestion and tingling remove the droplets of Otinum or Otipax. It is useful to wrap a head with a warm kerchief.
Water in the sea and the river is not sterile, because the risk of getting into the middle ear of an infection is great: if "shoots" hard, and the temperature rises, you should immediately contact a doctor.
Possible complications
Usually the liquid that enters the auditory meatus can be easily removed, and the obstruction disappears after a few hours. But it happens that the hearing begins to fail the patient - the sounds are recognized badly, the head rustles. This is a sign that the sulfur plug has swelled, when water has entered the ear, and now it has laid the whole passage, because of what the sounds are distorted.
The doctor can get the sulfur plug. Trying to do it yourself is not worth it, especially - use cotton swabs, which, as unanimously claimed by ENT doctors, are not at all suitable for cleaning the ears.
It happens that after the diving the ear was laid, and the auditory passage from this inflamed. The patient complains of itching, pain, discharge, having
Prophylaxis of the "swimmer's ear"
The auditory meatus should always be dry, therefore, in systematic exercises in the pool it is convenient to get rid of moisture with a hair dryer. The auricle is pulled upward and outward, after which a warm jet of air is directed into the lined auditory canal. Wadded sticks again should not be used, tk. they irritate the skin, disrupt its microflora and give green light to pathogenic microbes. Do not interfere with the rubber cap or special gags, which will not allow the liquid to cloud the joy of swimming.