ear infection symptoms
When improper attempt removal of cerumen from ear problems arise, and itching and hearing loss increases

I believe that many of us have experienced at least once an uncomfortable feeling of deafness, fullness and discomfort in the ear, noise, and sometimes dizziness, usually after a bath or attempts to alleviate itching in the ear by using the so-called. cottoned "baby sticks."

The cause of this phenomenon is the cerumen, or, as they are often called, . Cerumen is tan mass in the ear canal (ear canal) occurs as a result of work ceruminalnih glands and sweat glands, mixed with shed skin cells, dirt particles and a few hairs from the ear canal. Create and spontaneously cleaning cerumen from the ear canal are natural phenomena. However, in some people, there is a complete blockage of ear cerumen, either due to increased production or shortness of spontaneous cleaning (eg narrowed ear canal, age), and often improper conduct in personal hygiene ear. That's when the problems that can be very uncomfortable, and when you first contact us, usually scare the uncomfortable feeling of fullness and hearing loss (pressure) in the ears, dizziness, or forests.

Proper and professional removal of accumulated cerumen - rinse water temperature of 37 ° C in the practice of ENT specialists and family physicians - usually successfully removes these problems, and the "patient" solved their problems satisfied leaving doctor's office. Problems usually arise when improper attempts cerumen removal from the ear.

In the first place the wrong procedure is an attempt to self-cotton "baby wand." As these attempts usually fail, and itching and hearing loss increases, the user becomes more aggressive, stick enters deeper into the ear canal which leads to injection cerumen further into the ear canal or pain due to injury leather ear. Skin is in the deeper parts of the ear very thin and therefore vulnerable to this kind of manipulation that can hurt causing pain and ear are susceptible to bacterial and / or mikotičke infection. Not rare injury eardrum wand, especially in children or tear parts sticks and backwardness in the ear (corpora aliens - foreign bodies).