Ears can not only bring us external sounds, but also keep balance. The importance of ears can be imagined, and health care should be done well. So what should we pay attention to in ear care? Get rid of bad habits and dig your ears.
Earwax is called cerumen in medicine, which is formed by the normal secretion of cerumen gland of ear canal skin combined with dander. Generally, a small amount of cerumen debris can be eliminated by itself with the vibration and mandibular movement during exercise. A large piece of hardened earwax should be removed by an otologist with special tools. It is easy to damage the skin of the external auditory canal and bring bacteria into the external auditory canal to cause inflammation, which is not only painful but also difficult to treat. If the tympanic membrane is perforated, it is easy to cause infection and otitis media, which will affect hearing. If the ear itches unbearable, you can wipe it with a cotton swab and alcohol, but don't stick it too deep.
2. Prevention of swimming otopathy Hard cerumen can form embolism, water enters the ear, cerumen becomes soft and swells, which affects hearing, stimulates the ear canal and causes inflammation. If the eardrum has been perforated, don't swim to avoid the recurrence of various diseases. It's best to wear earplugs when swimming and raise your head above the water. Don't dive deep when swimming. First, the water depth will put pressure on the eardrum, and second, it is easy to get dizzy and cause danger.
Protecting hearing is a sign of health. Pay attention to protecting your hearing at ordinary times. The most common causes of hearing loss are drug poisoning and noise. The main cause of most drugs. The drugs that can cause deafness mainly include streptomycin, gentamicin, kanamycin and neomycin. These drugs can easily damage the inner ear, cochlea (auditory receptor) and vestibule (balance receptor), leading to deafness and imbalance. The symptoms of cochlear poisoning mainly include: high-pitched tinnitus, hearing loss, gradual aggravation during or after drug withdrawal until complete deafness. The symptoms of vestibular poisoning mainly include dizziness, nausea and vomiting, unstable walking and imbalance. As doctors, we should understand the side effects of drugs, but we should never use them. If we can use them less, we should not use them more, intravenous injection or abuse them. Deafness-causing drugs have cross-susceptibility, one drug can't, and other drugs can't. Deafness-causing drugs can be transmitted from mother to child. Avoid using all kinds of ototoxic drugs during pregnancy. In addition, deafness has family susceptibility. If someone in the family finds it easy to cause deafness, others should pay more attention to it. 4. Noise deafness is irregular and strongly stimulates noise, which not only causes psychological discomfort, but also hurts hearing. Noise damage to hearing is slow and progressive, and it is difficult to treat. Strongly stimulating music can also reduce hearing.
Although the occurrence of senile deafness is the aging of auditory system, aging is not the main factor in the etiology of senile deafness, but heredity, diet, environment and mental stress are the important factors to accelerate senile deafness. Since presbycusis is irreversible at present, prevention is very important. So what should the elderly do? 1. Prevent noise damage. Under the long-term stimulation of noise, the auditory organs are excited for a long time, easily tired, and the cerebral vessels are also in a state of spasm, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the auditory organs and the brain. If this continues, it will lead to hearing loss. 2. Pay attention to protect the ear canal and tympanic membrane. Don't dig the ear canal with matchsticks, hairpins and other hard objects, so as to avoid infection and damage to the ear canal and tympanic membrane and affect hearing. Dry the water in your ears after swimming and washing your hair. 3. To strengthen physical exercise, such as insisting on sword dancing and playing Tai Ji Chuan, can speed up the blood circulation of the whole body, improve the blood supply of the inner ear, and ensure that the hearing organs are in a normal functional state. 4. Reasonable diet, the elderly should eat less sweet, salty and greasy food, especially avoid high-fat and high-cholesterol diet to prevent arteriosclerosis from causing inner ear ischemia and hearing loss. In addition, senile deafness can be treated with drugs that nourish nerves, but the effect is still not ideal. Once you can't recover, you should choose a suitable hearing aid immediately and never buy it at will. Before wearing and buying, you should have your hearing tested by a professional and recommend a hearing aid that matches your hearing.
Steps of ear practice
1, gently rub the auricle.
First, make the index finger of both hands into the shape of an auricle, put the thumb under it and gently knead the auricle for about 50 times, or stop when you feel the ear is hot.
2, the index finger bright ears
Insert the index finger into the ear canal, pay attention to the control, don't insert it too deep, otherwise it may hurt the eardrum, pull it out immediately after insertion, and repeat this for about 20 times.
Step 3 knock on the ear bone
First put the middle finger of both hands behind the ear, and then put the index finger on the middle finger, naturally making it slide down and pat the back of the ear. Repeat this for about 30 times, but be careful not to use too much force.
4, deafening
First open your hands and rub them, then quickly cover your ears with your hands and loosen them. Repeat this for about ten times and your ears will feel clean. Pay attention to the fragile parts of your ears, so you must move gently, not too hard, and your ears should not be disturbed by loud noise, let alone stimulate your ears with sharp things.
By following these ear exercises every day, you can make your ears healthier. When swimming or taking a bath, you should pay attention to avoid water entering your ears, otherwise it may lead to inflammation and other conditions, which is very unfavorable to ear health.