When the ears itch, you need to pull out, and the woman's ears grow fluffy fungi

Jimu Journalist Liao Shiqi

Correspondent Ma Yaoyao

As long as I feel itchy ears, I will take out the tools. Ms. Wu, 30, has recently declined to seek medical treatment due to ear pain and hearing. The doctor actually found a fluffy fungus ball in her outer ear canal. The doctor asked in detail the judgment of the medical history.

Ms. Wu, who lives in Hankou, is 30 years old. As long as she feels itchy or unclean, she will take out a tool to pull out her ears. More than half a month ago, Ms. Wu bought a "ear -making artifact" online, and since then, she has a higher frequency of her ears.

Three days ago, Ms. Wu suddenly felt a little pain in her ears, and a little sullen. After sleeping, the symptoms not only did not relieve it, but also worsened. The right ear couldn't hear the sound. Later, she came to the Houhu Hospital of Wuhan Central Hospital to seek medical treatment.

In the outpatient clinic, Jia Min, deputy chief physician of the Department of ENT, found that the outer ear canal of Ms. Wu was bloody and swelling on both sides of the ear canal, and there were many furry things on the surface of the ear canal. After carefully cleaning and further investigation, the doctor found that the edge of her right ear had a perforation of about 1 mm diameter. Deputy Chief Physician Jia Min diagnosed Ms. Wu to get fungal external ear canal inflammation, and the perforation of the right ear drum membrane caused hearing damage. In the process of inquiring the medical history in detail, Deputy Chief Physician Jia Min learned that Ms. Wu had the habit of like to dig out her ears, and this time her ears "long mold" is related to this bad habit.

Deputy Chief Physician Jia Min checked the auditory canal for the patient

Chen Wei, director of the Department of ENT of the Academy, introduced that in recent years, many patients with fungal disease have been visited in recent years. The outer ear canal is small and deep, and it is suitable for fungal growth. Among the patients with fungal outer ear canal inflammation, nearly nine Chengdu has the experience of often going to the foot washing shop to pick up ear.

Director Chen Wei emphasized that people call the secretions of their ears as earwax, and they feel that earwax is the waste of the human body. The scientific name of the earwax is 耳, which has a protective effect on the ears. The earwax is acidic, which keeps the outer ear canal to maintain an acidic environment, with the ear hair on the ear canal to resist external bacteria invasion. Under normal circumstances, the outer ear canal does not need to clean up. People can shake the inner caramel of the ear canal when chewing the motion of the jaw and sleeping, so that the 耵聍 will fall by itself. Take your ears at will and remove the 耵聍, which is equivalent to removing the external line of the ears and let the bacteria invade the ear canal and the tympanic membrane. decline.

Experts remind that if you feel unwell, you can use cotton swabs to dip glycerin or vegetable oil to moisturize the ear canal to relieve symptoms. If ears pain cannot be relieved, ears flow, hearing decreased, etc., you should immediately go to the hospital for treatment.

(The picture is provided by Wuhan Central Hospital)

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