What causes ear pain

Our ears are the way we listen to external sounds. If our ears are healthy, we need to pay attention to and protect them at all times. When you experience ear pain, you need to first check whether it is caused by a disease. Common causes include otitis media, otitis externa, and acute otitis media.

reason

1. Acute otitis media: When a bacterial suppurative infection occurs in the middle ear cavity, the pus continues to increase and directly compresses the pain-sensitive eardrum, causing intermittent pain in the ear, which may present pulsating pain with the pulse beating. Otitis media ear pain that occurs in the middle of the night often makes it difficult for people to fall asleep. When the pus in the middle ear cavity increases and the pressure rises, the pus can cause the eardrum to rupture and perforate, and a large amount of pus will flow out of the ear canal, and the ear pain will be relieved.

2. Otitis externa: When the ear feels uncomfortable or itchy, some people like to dig blindly in the ear with fingernails, hairpins, knitting needles, short wooden sticks, matchsticks, etc. If you dig too hard or if you are bumped into by someone, it is easy to puncture the skin of the ear canal and cause skin infection and inflammation. This disease not only causes ear pain, but may also be accompanied by bleeding.

3. Otitis media: Otitis media is caused by choking on water in the throat while swimming. The bacteria in the water spread along the Eustachian tube to the mucosa of the middle ear cavity, causing water accumulation and blockage in the middle ear. The secretions cannot flow out and become inflamed. Acute otitis media will have symptoms of ear cramps, redness, swelling and fever.