Need to be wary of foreign objects in the ear

Nuts can sprout and grow into trees in the ear

Need to be wary of foreign objects in the ear Picture 1 If you suspect that you have particles in your ear, you should see a doctor

A girl's right ear has watery discharge, hearing loss and has a foreign object covering the ear canal, protruding out. The outer part was cut at a lower level hospital, when cut did not cause pain or bleeding, and after a few days it grew back to the way it was.

The doctor aspirated the fluid in the right ear canal and found two long, pale green pieces, which were painlessly clamped. After giving the patient pain medication, the foreign body is easily removed with forceps. This strange thing is a tiny rice plant with a stem more than 1 cm long, two small leaves coiled in the ear canal, the big leaf has been partially cut off, the bottom is still a cracked grain of rice and a few white roots. The patient's tympanic membrane is perforated.

The girl said that once when she was threshing rice, she felt a sharp pain, tinnitus, so she suspected that there was a grain of rice shot in, after a few days she didn't feel uncomfortable, so she stopped paying attention. Some time later, the right ear is watery, then hearing loss, foreign objects appear.

In the ear, nuts can sprout, grow into trees, damaging hearing. Therefore, doctors recommend that if you suspect that there is a particle splash, you should see a doctor.

Animals also often get into the ears

Need to be wary of foreign objects in the ear Picture 2 Animals also often get into the ears

While traveling, camping, . have to rest in tents, inns, you can get insects, flies, ants, fleas. "excursions" in your ears. They cause a lot of discomfort with popping noises, ringing in the ears, throbbing pain.

In such cases, it is necessary to stay calm, avoid shaking, banging outside the ear, picking with a cotton swab because it will provoke the creature to run deeper into the eardrum, causing pain, shock, or they sting, bite, cling more sure.

You also do not need to rush to cancel the fun, spend money to rent a car to the hospital. There are simpler and more effective measures: Calmly lie still, raise your ears, slowly drip water into the ear canal to fill it. Reflexively, the animal will back away, crawling out to avoid flooding. Calmly watch, until you see them out of the ear canal, kill for revenge or acquit is up to you.

Need to promptly handle when there is a foreign object in the ear canal

Normally, foreign bodies in the ear are divided into 3 types: Insects, tree nuts, plastic beads, stones, metal, glass. In many cases, patients usually have no symptoms. bear. Children are often examined and discovered incidentally, or when the foreign body has caused complications.

The most commonly used methods of removing foreign bodies are pumping with water, using tongs, tools with hooks to pull foreign bodies, and suction tubes. In particular, live insect foreign bodies can be given first aid by instilling salt water or clean water into the ear, lying on the opposite side so that the insect can crawl out on its own. If not, the patient should be taken to a medical facility for timely treatment. Because if not removed, insects can crawl deep into the ear canal, causing eardrum perforation or infection, ear infection.

At the medical facility, depending on the nature, shape, location of the foreign body and the condition of the ear canal as well as the overall condition, the doctors will have different treatment methods. If the foreign body is still in the cartilaginous ear canal, the ear canal has not been blocked, it can be removed with a hook or pump to remove the foreign body, if the foreign body cannot be removed, use a straw to remove it. If the foreign body is a living insect, immobilize it, then try to gently remove it.

If the foreign body is large and firm, stuck in the ear canal and deep in the ear, it is necessary to use anesthesia or even anesthesia to remove it, especially in young children in special cases. There are even cases where it is so difficult that it is necessary to perform surgery behind the ear or in the ear, opening the bone behind the ear canal to remove the foreign body. Therefore, if the family discovers that the child has a foreign body in the ear, it is necessary to take the child to a medical facility immediately. Absolutely do not arbitrarily remove foreign body at home because it can push the foreign body deeper, making the risk of more damage and more difficult to remove.

Micah Soto

Update 08 May 2023