Protect your ears!

Otolaryngologists are assured - many problems with ears could have been avoided if people had to care for this important part of the body and would not engage in self-medicate

"Clean - the guarantee of health" - the ancients said. And they were right. But if you think that how to wash your ears - is simple enough, you are mistaken. The hygiene of this important part of the body most importantly - do not damage the defense mounted by the nature.

Softer, more tender

Terzi insides of his hearing aid, it can be inadvertently and cause damage! But many people continue to make this mistake, because they fear that in the ears arise cerumen.

Indeed, according to statistics, blockage of auditory canal gray is the most common cause of sudden painless loss of hearing. But we should not do the work for nature, because our ears are capable of self-purification. The skin of the auditory canal has a sulfur glands secreting a special secret, which does not develop the infection had come from outside. During a conversation and chewing ear canal walls vibrate, and the resulting skin villi push this secret out.

To prevent damage to the villi, it is necessary to clean the skin of impurities cotton buds gently and carefully, and only around the ear passage, and in any case not inside.

Without the initiative!

However, there are situations where (for example, narrowness and tortuosity of the auditory canal) in the excessive formation of sulfur she slips into a tight ball, forms a plug. The presence of this "hedge" can be said to symptoms such as nasal and ear unaccustomed sound of his own voice. In this case, many people are also trying to act independently.

However, to remove cerumen should only specialists. Himself in any case can not do it! For this reason, it often happens perforation of the eardrum, ear canal injury and, most unfavorable, - damage to the ossicular chain, which can lead to hearing loss and bouts of dizziness.

Removal of cerumen - the process quick and painless. It is produced by washing.

Technique is this: first in ear dig warmed (to 37 ° C), a drop of sodium hydrogen carbonate, which soften sulfuric cork, and after 2-3 hours the plug can be removed. To this water jet is directed into the ear along the rear wall of the auditory meatus. Water drains out of the ear in the tray. After washing cork dried ear canal with a cotton swab.

Himself an ear-nose-throat

If the ear accidentally hit some object (this often happens with an overly inquisitive kids, but sometimes happens with adults), many are trying to get him out by any means. In the course are not only fingers and tweezers, needles, pins, toothpicks and other devices the most unexpected. Each ENT physician - your arsenal of tools used by its "enterprising" patients.

Doing so will not in any case! If the ear turned a foreign object should leave everything as it is and as quickly as possible to see a doctor. If the ear canal accidentally flew into some kind of a silly fly or stray mosquito, you can fill the inside oil or vodka and the insect itself will be released along with the liquid. And if you get stuck - then again, his hands away from his ears and ran to the doctor!

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