How to clean ears with hydrogen peroxide solution

Hydrogen peroxide is what we commonly call hydrogen peroxide. It is a substance with bactericidal effects. It is more suitable for the treatment of otitis media and purulent otitis externa. In addition, it has a certain therapeutic effect on tonsillitis and oral ulcers. It is often used to clean wounds. It has a very good bactericidal effect and can have strong oxidizing ability. Moreover, its toxic side effects are very small and the irritation is relatively small.

Wash your ears with hydrogen peroxide

Use cotton swabs and then ear drops. Hydrogen peroxide does not damage the eardrum. The treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media includes medical therapy and surgical therapy. Medical therapy includes local therapy and drug therapy. Its purpose is to make the inflamed middle ear become non-inflamed, or to make the purulent ear become dry ear. However, it should be noted that many dry ears still have middle ear inflammation.

Medical treatment cannot correct structural damage to the middle ear, such as a hole in the eardrum, hearing loss, or bone defects. Medical treatment can only restore some cases from an inflamed state to a non-inflamed state. Damage to the middle ear structure must be reconstructed by surgical treatment.

Some cases of middle ear inflammation also require surgical treatment to remove the inflammation. Therefore, surgical treatment can remove the inflammation and reconstruct the middle ear structure at the same time. In the treatment of chronic middle ear inflammation, medical treatment and surgical treatment complement each other.

Sterilization effect of hydrogen peroxide

process

When it comes into contact with wounds, pus or dirt on the skin, mouth and mucous membranes, it immediately decomposes to produce oxygen. This oxygen atom that has not yet combined into an oxygen molecule has a strong oxidizing ability. When it comes into contact with bacteria, it can destroy the bacterial cell and kill the bacteria.

Influence

The remaining substance after killing the bacteria is water that is non-toxic and non-irritating. No secondary pollution will be caused. Therefore, hydrogen peroxide is an ideal disinfectant for wound disinfection. However, do not use highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide to disinfect wounds to prevent burns to the skin and affected area.

application

In addition, 2% to 3% hydrogen peroxide is often used as a flushing drug in oral medicine. For example, in root canal therapy in oral medicine, hydrogen peroxide is often used alternately with normal saline (0.9% sodium chloride solution) when enlarging the root canal. At the same time, hydrogen peroxide is also one of the essential drugs for pericoronal flushing. Since most infections in the oral cavity come from anaerobic bacteria, hydrogen peroxide is widely used in oral clinical medicine due to its oxygen-producing effect.