A short stay in the cold wind without a hat, and here is the result: the ear was blown out. This is evidenced by a strong painful pulsation, headache. If a small child who cannot explain what worries him is suffering, he cries a lot, rubs his ear with his hand, shakes his head from side to side. Sometimes the temperature may rise. Most likely, it is otitis media, that is, inflammation of the ear.
Otitis can be different, from the most mild form, affecting only the skin and the external auditory canal, to serious problems with the middle or inner ear, which can lead to hearing impairment up to deafness.
If you have not blew your ear for the first time, and previously you yourself have dealt with this ailment, then you can try several folk recipes. However, ear treatment at home is highly undesirable when it comes to young children. Better bring the baby to the ENT, so that he assesses the condition of the child and prescribes adequate treatment.
What can you do yourself in addition to the main treatment or before going to the doctor if you have a blown ear? The following are some time-tested recipes.
Geranium
A well-known folk method is the healing of ears using ordinary room geraniums. Its leaves contain a healing essential oil that relieves inflammation and has an effect similar to antiseptics from a pharmacy. A small sheet is folded with a tube and carefully placed in the ear, leaving the tail outside, for which you can later pull it out. No need to lay very deep - volatile essential oil and will reach the site of inflammation in any case.
Boric alcohol
A traditional drug for the treatment of uncomplicated otitis media is an alcoholic solution of boric acid. Many people have formed a stable association: the ear is blew out - we buy boric alcohol. It is effective both instillation of a few drops of warm medicine in the ear canal, and the laying of gauze soaked in the preparation. Usually the procedure is performed at night, and in the morning the gauze is removed. Often, one procedure is enough to fully recover, but if improvement has come, but the pain has not completely passed, you will have to repeat the method several times.
Recently, information has begun to appear on the toxicity of boric alcohol, so some experts advise replacing it with levomycetin alcohol at a concentration of 0.25%, which is called earwax.
Sea buckthorn oil
This tool is widely used in both official and traditional medicine from various ailments. If the ear is blown out, warm oil is instilled into the ear canal 4-5 drops 3-4 times a day.
Alcohol compress
This procedure is not difficult to do, but putting a compress without a doctor’s permission is not worth it - it’s dangerous. If the inflammatory process is strong enough, the heat will act on it not in a depressing, but in a stimulating manner. The consequences of such an intervention are difficult to predict.
ENT gives the go-ahead? Prepare gauze, plastic wrap, cotton wool and a scarf, you will also need vodka or cologne. A circle of about 10 cm in diameter is cut out of gauze, folded in several layers, in the center of which a hole for the auricle is cut . Vodka or cologne is bred in half with hot water, moistened with gauze, squeezed and put in place around the ear. The auditory meatus does not overlap. At the top is a layer of film, then cotton, and all together are tied with a scarf. Such a compress is kept at bedtime for about an hour, after which it is removed, leaving only a scarf for the night.
Prevention
Otitis, like any disease, is much easier to prevent than to treat. It is important to take measures to quickly recover from SARS and other infections associated with a runny nose. It is the protracted course of rhinitis that often leads to ear vulnerability.
And, of course, the general condition of the body matters: strong immunity will not allow inflammation to develop in any part of a healthy body. And ears are no exception.