After the rupture of the tympanic membrane is drastically reduced hearing. The middle ear infection can easily get there. Typically, the gap grows in a few weeks.
As it will be
- It will be hurt. Although the pain can be reduced quickly enough.
- Ear can leak blood or other fluid.
- Hearing will fall sharply.
- Ringing in the ear.
- May appear dizziness.
- Dizziness may be accompanied by nausea and vomiting.
If you suspect that you have a broken eardrum, do not wait, and immediately contact a doctor. Sometimes no treatment is possible to lose time and lose their hearing.
What does it happen
- Otitis media. When otitis behind the eardrum to accumulate pus. He is bursting with the tympanic cavity, and membrane may burst.
- Barotrauma. This happens in the plane when submerged under water, with the impact on the ear or use the airbag deployment in a car.
- Acoustic trauma. Loud noise, a shot or explosion.
- Foreign body in the ear. Some pierces the eardrum, picking his ear with a cotton swab or a hairpin.
- A serious head injury. Inside the head is something shift and membrane broken.
complications
The eardrum has two functions:
- Transmits sound into the ear;
- Protect the middle ear from getting water there, foreign bodies and germs.
After the rupture of the membrane, these functions are broken temporarily or permanently.
Hearing loss. The degree of hearing loss will depend on the size of the holes in the membrane.
Otitis media. In the middle ear will get germs and launch inflammation. If the infection is prolonged, then the contents of the middle ear to slowly fall apart. After that normal hearing will be gone. Sometimes the infection spreads further inside the head.
Cholesteatoma. It's a lot of debris in the middle ear. Imagine how much garbage, dead skin cells, earwax and other nasty things we picked out of the ears. After the rupture of the eardrum of this garbage is not directed to the outside, and inside the middle ear. There's all this muck overgrown by connective tissue, increases and acts as a tumor, destroying everything in its path.
How to avoid all this ugliness
Time treat otitis media. Watch out for children, who suddenly began to pull at his ear. They can also be otitis. If you run otitis media, the eardrum can burst like a soap bubble.
Watch out for the ears on an airplane. During takeoff and landing blow down, chew and swallow. Thus equalized the pressure in the tympanic cavity. Do not sleep during takeoff and landing! If you miss the moment, the eardrum will burst like a balloon.
Not picking his ears different things.
Protect your ears from the noise. If your side someone came shooting a gun, you can go without the eardrum.
