Repeated ear digging often leads to the skin of ear canal being often stimulated to form papilloma of external auditory canal. Although papilloma belongs to benign tumor, it can be surgically removed, but it is easy to recur after resection, and it is very likely to turn into malignant tumor after repeated recurrence.
Therefore, in order to prevent cancer, it is best not to dig your ears often. The correct way to stop itching is to rub a cotton swab coated with 75% medical alcohol in the ear canal a few times.
Improper ear pulling will damage hearing.
Ear itching, ear swab can not only relieve itching, but also remove earwax in the ear canal, so many people take it for granted that earwax should be removed regularly. As everyone knows, this kind of behavior has great potential harm to ear health.
Sun Jianjun, director of the Department of Otolaryngology, PLA Navy General Hospital, pointed out that the skin of the external auditory canal has a cerumen gland, which secretes a yellowish, sticky substance, commonly known as earwax, which is medically called cerumen.
When exposed to air, it is easy to dry and form small pieces. When eating and chewing, most of them fall out of their ears with the movement of the mandibular joint. Some people's earwax is sticky, commonly known as oily ear or sugar ear, which is often mistaken for pus, but it is not inflammation and pus.
Sometimes too much fixed epithelium and dust mixed with the external auditory canal can form a large lump and block the external auditory canal. Medically, it is called fixed embolism. If the external auditory canal scar is narrow, the ear hair is too much, or there are chronic inflammation and other reasons that affect the discharge, there will be more opportunities for cerumen embolism.
Many people find that there is a small amount of cerumen in the external auditory canal, so they dig it with things like hairpins, but often digging ears will inevitably damage the skin of the external auditory canal and cause inflammation. In particular, picking your ears with unclean things is more likely to cause ear diseases.
Children should avoid digging because the ear canal is soft and vulnerable to injury and infection. Adults have a small amount of earwax, so it's best not to move. If there is too much earwax, blocking the external auditory canal, affecting hearing or having uncomfortable symptoms, of course, it should be removed as soon as possible. However, it is best to ask a doctor to handle it. If there is too much dry earwax, water will enter the external auditory canal when washing hair, bathing or swimming, and the dry earwax will swell after absorbing water, which will lead to hearing loss of patients. Earwax is rich in nutrition. Under humid and suitable temperature conditions, bacteria are easy to grow and reproduce, which will stimulate the skin inflammation of external auditory canal. Ask the doctor to help clean up in time.
The correct method of ear pulling should be as follows: Expert advice.
Director Sun reminded that people with ear symptoms caused by cerumen embolism, especially dry and hard earwax, can use 5% sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) ear drops, 3-4 times a day, 2-3 drops each time. After 3 days, the earwax will soften, and the doctor will take it out with special hooks or pliers, or rinse it with warm salt water. Never dig by yourself, it is easy to cause injury.