Don't panic when the bug gets into the ear

In spring, the climate gradually gets warmer, everything recovers, and there are more flying insects. Many patients with flying insects in the ear are treated in the ear, nose and throat clinic. The doctor reminds: the small flying insect flies into the ear to dig out randomly is most likely to damage the hearing.

The human external auditory canal is a tube with one end open, about 3 cm long. Many small insects, especially moths and mosquitoes, are easy to fly into the ear. They crawl, stir and struggle in the ear canal. Because the skin in the ear canal is delicate and full of nerves, they feel itchy and painful. These insects in the ear canal crawling or flying trouble, often give people unbearable roar tinnitus and pain. When flying insects touch the tympanic membrane deep in the ear canal, they will also cause dizziness, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. If you constantly touch the ear canal or auricle, it will only make the insects in the ear canal flying and crawling, and increase the pain. Serious can cause tympanic membrane trauma, damage the ossicles, affect hearing.

If the bug flies into the ear, it's better to take advantage of the phototropic biological characteristics of some bugs. You can irradiate the external auditory meatus with the light of a flashlight in the dark. The bug will climb out of the ear when it sees the light. You can also blow a cigarette into the ear eye to choke the bug out.

If the above method does not work, you can lie on your side to make the affected ear up, and drop a few drops of edible oil into the back ear to stick or kill or suffocate the insect. When the insects in the ear stop struggling, rinse the ear canal with warm water to flush them out. In ancient Chinese medical books, there are records of "a hundred insects enter the ear, good wine irrigates it" and sesame oil drops into the ear to kill insects. The purpose of using alcohol and oil is to make the insect drown or kill quickly. Even if it doesn't die, it can't move. It can reduce some pain. Then go to the otolaryngology department of the hospital calmly and ask the doctor for help.