What to do if it hurts when digging your ears

People often use ear picks to remove earwax, but sharp objects like ear picks are likely to cause damage to the ears, because the eardrum inside the ear is very fragile. If you accidentally touch it with the ear pick, it is likely to cause bleeding. In severe cases, it may cause hearing loss or deafness. Therefore, it is best to reduce the use of ear picks to remove ears. So what should you do if it hurts when you pick your ears?

If the eardrum is damaged, hearing will decrease. If there is only pain but no hearing loss, it can be basically confirmed that the eardrum is not damaged.

In life, we often see that some people like to use things like matchsticks or small hairpins to pick out earwax when they have nothing to do, and they say it is for comfort. In fact, doing so has many harmful effects. At the very least, it may cause ear canal inflammation, and at worst, it may cause hearing loss or even hearing loss.

It turns out that the skin of our external auditory canal is relatively thin, closely connected to the perichondrium, has less subcutaneous tissue, and poor blood circulation. Earwax, medically known as earwax, is the secretion of the cerumen glands in the external auditory canal. It has a certain protective effect on the skin of the external auditory canal, but too much earwax will block the external auditory canal and affect hearing. Sometimes it will also irritate the external auditory canal and cause itching.

Therefore, if there is too much earwax, you should take it out. However, if you use improper force when cleaning your ears, it is most likely to cause damage to the external auditory canal, infection and boils, causing ear pain, and in severe cases, hearing loss. Frequent ear cleaning can also cause the stratum corneum of the skin in the external auditory canal to swell, blocking hair follicles, which is conducive to bacterial growth and causes itching in the ear canal and yellow discharge. Long-term chronic congestion of the skin of the external auditory canal can easily stimulate the secretion of the cerumen glands, resulting in more earwax. Frequent ear cleaning can easily stimulate the proliferation of skin squamous cells or basal cells, inducing external auditory canal papilloma. At the same time, it can easily bring fungi into the external auditory canal, causing unbearable itching in the ear canal. If mold grows on the eardrum, hearing loss and tinnitus may occur.

The eardrum is a thin membrane about 0.1 mm thick. If you use sharp tools to clean your ears, you may accidentally puncture or even perforate the eardrum, which may cause deafness in severe cases.

If there is too much earwax, the correct way to deal with it is to use a cotton swab rolled up with absorbent cotton to gently clean out the earwax. If there is too much earwax to remove, you can go to the hospital for treatment.