How to reduce ear inflammation

There are many patients with otitis media and external auditory canal infection in life. The reason why these patients get this disease is mostly because they often pick their ears in life. Although earwax will affect everyone's hearing, earwax also has a protective effect on the ears. The tools we use to pick our ears are generally not disinfected, so it is particularly easy to cause external auditory canal infection. So how do we reduce ear inflammation?

Chronic ear inflammation is common in chronic suppurative ear inflammation.

1. Cold: When you have a cold, the body's resistance is reduced, and the bacteria can easily spread from the inflammation of the nasopharynx through the Eustachian tube to the middle ear and multiply, causing ear inflammation.

2. Swimming: Swimming in an unclean swimming pool can easily cause bacteria to invade the middle ear through sewage, spread and multiply, causing ear inflammation.

3. Improper ear picking: Some people have the bad habit of frequently picking earwax, which often damages the eardrum due to excessive force, causing bacteria to invade the middle ear and multiply, causing ear inflammation.

Most ear inflammations are caused by otitis media, which can cause perforation of the eardrum. After the pus flows out, symptoms such as ear pain will be relieved. If the treatment is not timely or effective, it can easily turn into chronic otitis media. Chronic suppurative otitis media is commonly known as "stinky ears". If acute suppurative otitis media is not cured in time and is delayed for more than six weeks, it is considered chronic suppurative otitis media. Therefore, once otitis media is discovered, it should be diagnosed and treated early.

What to do if the ear is inflamed

Self-treatment methods

1. Internal treatment

1. Patent medicine

(1) Cefuroxime Capsules, 1-2 capsules each time, 4 times a day.

(2) Longdan Xiegan Pills, 9 grams each time, 3 times a day.

(3) Huanglian Shangqing Tablets, 4 tablets each time, 3 times a day.

(4) Andrographolide tablets, 4 tablets each time, 3 times a day.

2. Single prescription

(1) Decoction of 30 grams of honeysuckle vine and 10 grams of raw licorice root. Take once a day for 3-4 days.

(2) Take 30g each of dandelion, plantain and purple gentian, one dose per day, divided into three doses for oral administration, for 3-4 days.

(3) 12g of wild chrysanthemum, 10g of Gastrodia elata, 15g of Salvia miltiorrhiza, 15g of Alisma orientalis, and 30g of Hedyotis diffusa, decocted and taken in 2 doses.

3. Diet therapy

(1) Boil 30 grams of sugar-coated winter melon and 13 fresh leaves of Rhizoma Cibotii in 1 large bowl of water until it becomes half a bowl. Take 1 dose daily for 5 consecutive days. [Note] This prescription is more effective for chronic otitis media.

(2) 18g of Job's tears, 12g of honeysuckle, 9g of bupleurum, 15g of turtle shell, and an appropriate amount of brown sugar. Boil the honeysuckle, bupleurum, and turtle shell into a decoction, extract the juice, and cook it into porridge with the other two ingredients. Take one dose daily for 5 consecutive doses.

(II) External treatment

1. Take an egg yolk, put it in a pan (do not use an iron pan), heat and stir-fry. After a while, filter out the oil. Prevent it from burning when frying. After cooling, take the oil and drip it into the ear, 3 drops each time, twice a day.

2. Cut open 5 earthworms, wash them, add about 10 grams of sugar, filter out the clear liquid with clean gauze after 30 minutes, and drip it into the ears, 4 drops each time, 3 times a day.

3. 50 grams of fresh pig bile (or chicken bile) and 5 grams of borneol, drop into the ear.

4. Blow a little ear powder into the ear, 3 times a day.

5. Mash 2 raw garlics and 1 loofah together, squeeze out the juice into a cloth bag, and drip into the ear, 3-4 drops each time, 3 times a day.

6. Mash walnut meat into oil, add a little borneol, and drip into the ear.