In the ENT outpatient clinic.
Often, you will encounter some.
Patients with perforated eardrums and recurrent pus in the ears
When pus is bleeding, buy ear drops from your own pharmacy and use them repeatedly.
Persistent or significant hearing loss.
before going to the hospital.
There are also many patients who don't know that their eardrums are ruptured.
Let's talk about tympanic membrane perforation first
What are the hazards?
01 The eardrum is the vital part of the transmission of sound through the outer ear to the middle and inner ears
There is no substitute for all the sounds that humans hear that need to be transmitted and amplified through the eardrum. Once the eardrum is perforated, the transmission of sound is greatly reduced, which directly affects the quality of sound communication between humans and the outside worldConductive hearing loss
02 The eardrum is the outermost portal of the middle ear
It is also a natural barrier to the middle ear, and when the eardrum is perforated, the middle ear loses this natural protectionOnce the bacteria enter, symptoms such as pus, hearing loss, dizziness, and tinnitus appear
With the occurrence, development and recurrence of otitis media, toxins produced by bacteria can cause damage to the structure and function of the middle and inner ear, resulting in irreversible neuropathic hearing loss. As a result, patients with tympanic membrane perforation will gradually and slowly decline their hearing, which may lead to neural hearing loss over time.
03 Perforated eardrum can easily cause other diseases
Because after the tympanic membrane is perforated, it is easy to have otitis media with reverse action, and there is often secretion in the external auditory canal, and the environment is moist, which is very easy to be secondaryEczema of the external auditory canal, fungal infections, etc, causing recurrent ear itching, earache and other discomfort.
Perforation of the tympanic membrane results in a middle ear cholesteatoma due to migration of epithelial tissue from the outer ear to the middle ear, which may cause destruction of the middle ear and surrounding structuresIt causes otitis media and even labyrinthitis, meningitis, and brain abscessWait.
04 Affect the use of hearing aids
For the elderly, most people may develop presbycusis as they age, and they need to wear hearing aids to assist their hearing. When wearing hearing aids, it is often necessary to place earplugs in the external ear canal to transmit the amplified sound to the eardrum, and then to the middle ear and then to the inner ear. Patients with perforated tympanic membrane have poor resistance to the middle ear, and earplugs are a foreign object, which is easy to cause long-term wear and daily pick-and-placeOtitis externa and otitis media, the appearance of running water or pus, affecting the use of hearing aids.
Although the eardrum is only a thin membrane, butIt is an important barrier to our middle earOnce the tympanic membrane is perforated and cannot heal itself within a certain period of time, the tympanic membrane should be repaired as soon as possible, and the sooner it is, the less harmful. The doctor will conduct a comprehensive assessment according to the specific situation of each person and choose the appropriate ** plan.