Sharp pain in the ear in an adult. Severe earache. Relieve pain at home

In the work of the general practitioner, complaints of pain in the ear are quite common. If the earache is severe, then patients are usually treated for medical care   even at night. Complaints of earache are observed in all age groups, they are especially common in children.

When a patient complains of earache, the examination should not be limited to the ears as the source of these complaints [this can be external otitis; furunculosis; otitis media, or inflammation of the middle ear, and mastoiditis]. One should also look for the source of pain radiating to the ear (ears).

What are the causes of earache?

There are several main causes that can cause ear pain.

Infection

The most common cause of ear pain - dull, deep, with sharp backache - is otitis caused by viral or bacterial infection. Determining external otitis media is quite simple: you need to press on the trestle, while the ear will appear pain sensations. Otitis media is usually accompanied by symptoms such as fever and headache. Such not so pleasant sensations occur due to the penetration of the infection into the area of ​​the ear canal. Depending on the location of the source of infection, boils (point localization of the infection) or abscesses (the infection spreads to the entire auditory canal) are distinguished. Many patients also complain of pain caused by infection of the middle ear or the ear canal. The first symptoms: purulent discharge   from the ear canal, headache, hearing loss. Reason: otomycosis (ear fungus).

In any of the cases of infectious or bacterial inflammation of the ear canal, it is useless and even dangerous to self-medicate. Consult the help of doctors who will clean the canal with an ear probe. Usually, with abscesses, boils, otitis media and other consequences of infections, drops are placed in the ears. The composition of such medicines includes antibiotics, so after a course of treatment, you can get rid of earaches without problems and consequences.

Eustachian tube occlusion

When the Eustachian tube is blocked, a sensation arises, as if the ear had been laid. If you do not immediately begin to treat the disease, the disease can lead to inflammation of the middle ear. In such cases, patients are assigned vasoconstrictor drops   or nasal spray. Thus, by narrowing the vessels, the patency of the Eustachian tube is significantly improved. In some cases, antibiotics are added to the list of medications, if the main cause of earache is an infection.

Barotrauma

Barotrauma can be obtained if the pressure in the middle and inner ear is different. In other words, a cause of barotrauma can be a concussion, an abrupt noise exceeding the sound susceptibility standard for loudness, even a runny nose can cause a “stunning” effect. Ear pain due to barotrauma can occur under any circumstances, during which the pressure inside the ear changes dramatically: scuba diving, mountain climbing, abrupt stop after running, a shot. To alleviate the suffering, you just need to close your nose and try to breathe air into it. Prolonged pain is a signal that you need to run to the otolaryngologist.

Sulfur plug

Blockage of the external auditory canal with sulfur secretions or sulfur plug   Most often occurs in children who do not like to clean their ears. However, some adults who neglect personal hygiene may end up with such symptoms of a sulfuric plug as hearing impairment for a long time, and, as a logical result, earache.

The doctor will remove the plug in two accounts with a special syringe that delivers warm water under pressure. You can clean the external auditory canal yourself. To do this, you must first make the cork “pliable”, softening it with special drops. After, say, three days after these procedures, it is necessary to take a warm bath, while you need to lie down so that your ears are under water. If the cork does not come out, feel free to go to the doctor. And the main thing - no further experiments with attempts to pull the cork yourself.

Inflammation of the upper respiratory tract

A cold can also cause ear pain. Caught a cold, sat down in a draft, overcooled - and the inflammation of the ear canal was right there. Usually immediately lays nose. Such pain can pass as quickly and completely as the cold began, or it can “linger away” a little longer, leaving behind acute infection   middle ear. Eyewitnesses say that the pain in the ear against the background of the infection is just crazy. However, do not despair. An experienced doctor will always prompt the correct course of treatment.

Injuries

Trauma to the auditory canal is mainly characteristic of children who like to shove various objects into their ears and other children: pencils, beads, beads, designer parts, and other objects. Anyway, any ear injury can occur quite by accident, and not only in children. In general, pain in the ear can even cause a blow to the head, especially a blow to the ear itself.

Symptoms of earache

Any pain in the auricle speak, first of all, about a certain inflammatory process. It may be otitis media, acute and chronic tonsillitis, antritis, specific or nonspecific inflammation of the maxillary joint. In addition, pain in the ear can be a consequence of the inflammatory processes of the jaw, tonsils, and also because of sinusitis. The most common causes of such pain are pathological processes in the neck, spine, myofascial pain, neuralgia, and so on. To determine the causes of pain and establish the correct diagnosis, you need to contact a qualified specialist and be examined.

If you have several of these symptoms, it can be stated that certain “parts” of the hearing system are sick:

• acute or dull earache,
• recurrence of earache
• persistent pain for several days
• “Reflected” pain in the sinuses, in the neck, in the temples,
• hearing impairment
• purulent or bloody discharge from auricle,
• ear redness
• high temperature
• runny nose

Irradiating pain in the ear

On the 5 nerves can come pain in the ear. By auricular branch trigeminal nerve   pain is transmitted from the sphenoid sinus or toothache. For the large auricular nerve, pain may radiate to the ear (along the C2 and C3 nerves) from wounds or inflamed lymphatic glands in the neck, as well as from the discs and joints of the cervical vertebrae, with inflammatory changes in the latter. By sensitive branch facial nerve   pain radiates to the cranial ganglion of this nerve when it is infected with the Herpes zoster virus (Ramsay Hunt syndrome).

Ear pains may radiate along the tympanic branch of the glossopharyngeal nerve and the auricular branch of the vagus nerve in inflammatory changes in the pharynx, such as tonsillitis, carcinoma of the posterior third of the tongue, from the pear-shaped fossa or larynx, in peritonsillar abscess.

It is very difficult to diagnose earache in infants when the only manifestations of the disease are crying and vomiting.

Ear pain is one of the most unpleasant pains, perhaps, after toothache. It delivers a lot of trouble, besides, any inflammation of the auricle and other organs of the human auditory system can result in serious hearing problems, even to its loss.

The pain in the ear can be completely different in nature, depending on the particular disease and its severity. The focus of pain usually “freezes” around the ear and external auditory canal. Timely diagnosis and treatment of ear problems will not only preserve hearing, but also avoid more serious health problems.

Treatment of earache

Despite the fact that tolerating pain in the ear is unbearable, you should not try to self-medicate, otherwise you can harm yourself even more. However, you can ease the discomfort.

If the pain is localized in the area of ​​the auricle and the external auditory canal, in no case should water be allowed to get inside and prevent additional injuries. In such cases, the inner part of the ear can be shallowly treated with ointment with celestoderm, lorinden and triderm. Pain relievers, like Ketanov, will make it easier ear pain.

If earaches are spontaneous in nature and are accompanied by acute pain without discharge, high fever, it is urgent to warm up the ear. This can be done by applying a turunda with boric alcohol, alcohol compress   or a special ear warmer. In parallel, it is worth to take a couple of pills of an anesthetic drug.

If there is a discharge in case of pain in the ear, bury the ears, introduce a turundum there and allow water to enter there in no case. Until a diagnosis has been established, any actions related to the treatment of earache should be carried out under the strict supervision of a physician, otherwise the consequences may be completely unpredictable, up to perforation of the membrane.

If the thermometer shows a body temperature above 38 degrees, and the pain in the ear is not accompanied by secretions - you can not warm the ear in any case. It is better to call the doctor, as such symptoms may indicate a closed purulent inflammation   no outflow of pus. Often, such a diagnosis occurs in babies. For purulent edema and other complications, it is impossible to do without the help of doctors.

Otitis media also needs to be treated under the strict supervision of the attending physician, because, as a rule, otitis can be accompanied by facial nerve paresis.

What to do first with earache?

As we have said, pain in the ear can indicate a completely different disease, similar to each other only with grave consequences. And they will be necessary if self-medicating or treating a disease is wrong. Therefore, at the very first symptoms of pathology in the ear, it is necessary to urgently call a doctor and not postpone treatment.

The only thing that can and even should be taken for earache is to take painkillers (ketans, paracetamol), aspirin, antipyretic (if high temperature). If necessary, you can warm the ear, but only depending on the causes of pain, which allow a similar method. For example, with external otitis, alcohol-based compresses and any methods of heating with the use of alcohol should not be done in any case, because alcohol has an irritating effect. Not always can help and drops. So, with otitis media, antibiotics in the form of droplets will have no effect, and when perforating the membrane it is completely dangerous, since drugs containing salicylates can destroy the structure inner ear. With mechanical damage eardrum   introduction of turunda is allowed (with saline), which must be changed every two to three hours.

Traditional medicine is rich in its recipes. From the most different diseases   Medicines from natural ingredients are applied for many centuries. Everyone can choose a tool for themselves.

Modern medicine has gone a long way. Her methods of diagnosis and treatment can not be replaced by folk remedies. However, they can enhance the effects of conventional drugs. Therefore, you should not refuse to visit a doctor. Only he can determine the cause of unpleasant manifestations.

The doctor prescribes a traditional treatment for ear pain. Folk remedies are also selected by a medical specialist. After all, diseases of the ear can be different. A medicine that has been picked incorrectly may aggravate the condition. Therefore, you can not use any recipe. It can end sadly, and the rehabilitation time will increase significantly.

Causes of earache

There are many reasons for the appearance of discomfort, so it is necessary to select the correct prescription for pain in the ears. Folk remedies can alleviate the condition and speed up recovery. But only in case of correct diagnosis and adequate choice of treatment regimen.

The cause of the pain can be a variety of inflammation or blockage of the ear canal. However, other ailments are also able to manifest such symptoms. These include, for example, sinusitis, tonsillitis. The list of diseases that cause pain in the ear should include sinusitis, inflammation of the tonsils, as well as maxillary pathology.

Even some types of neuralgia, diseases spinal column   manifested by such symptoms. Choosing a doctor necessarily takes into account the reason for its occurrence.

Inflammation

The most common cause of ear pain is inflammatory processor otitis. It can be external, internal or (most often) medium. There are also chronic and acute otitis. He is often called colds, infections of the upper respiratory tract. Struggling with respiratory diseases, need to heal and pain in the ear. Folk remedies involve the use of other procedures.

But you should know that with purulent otitis such procedures are prohibited. You need to know what type of inflammation develops in the ear. Swimmers, for example, are most often diagnosed with otitis media. Due to the frequent ingress of water into the ear canal, the skin softens and becomes susceptible to the penetration of various viruses and infectious agents.

Folk remedies

Visiting a doctor and finding out what ailment caused pain in the ears, treatment with folk remedies can be applied quite effectively. In combination with traditional drugs such recipes significantly reduce recovery time.

Ear pain is rarely unbearable. therefore emergency measures   do not need to. But you need to visit the doctor as soon as possible. Folk recipes   suggest washing the ear canal with various infusions. Popular methods are warming and inhalation.

It is necessary to defeat the cause of the disease, and not to deal with the symptoms. In this case, the pain will go away. But the treatment with purely natural recipes is not as effective as traditional methods. Therefore, they are used in the complex.

Popular folk remedies   from ear pain for adults and children are prepared on the basis of onions, almond oil, walnuts, propolis, honey. It is far from full list   possible means.

Warming up

If otitis media is diagnosed as purulent, this procedure is excluded. But in other cases, warming up is quite effective. The patient should not be elevated temperature. Otherwise, warming it will significantly increase.

If your ear hurts, folk remedies will ease the discomfort. Take a small bag (even a regular sock will do). Pour the salt or sand heated in a pan into it. If the temperature of the heater is too high, a scarf is placed under the bag. It is folded several times. As the contents cool, the tissue layers are reduced (the scarf is unfolded). This procedure is carried out for 10 minutes. Warming up should be done 2-3 times a day. At the same time make sure that the temperature of the heater is not high. The bag should be warm, but not hot.

Compress

Many people (especially during the cold season) are interested in: if folk remedies include compresses. They need different ingredients. One popular recipe is a combination of camphor oil, salt and ammonia.

This medicine is stored in a dark, dry room for about a year. For its preparation a tablespoon salt   Pour 1 liter of warm water. Stir the solution. Next, 100 g of ammonia (10%) and 10 g of camphor oil is poured into the liquid.

The jar is closed with a lid. It is shaken until the solution becomes homogeneous. A small cotton swab moistened with this tool and put into the ear. During the day, the procedure is repeated 3-4 times.

Remedy for rehabilitation

Often after purulent otitis   it takes some time for the entire system to fully recover. Such a remedy can be propolis. This is a popular folk remedy for earache. It will help restore hearing and restore health to the patient.

To do this, 30 g of propolis should nastrogat fine chips. It is poured 100 g of medical alcohol (70%). Mixture insist week, occasionally shaking. Then the tool is filtered and make internal lotions. Vatu or gauze moistened with tincture and put tightly in the ear.

The procedure is performed 1 time per day. The tampon remains in the ear for 2-3 hours. The course of treatment is 15 days. To skip the procedures is not recommended. Otherwise, the rehabilitation process will be delayed, and the disease may develop into a chronic form.

How to remove a foreign object

Sometimes the pain in the ear is caused by a foreign object, an insect. Moreover, such a misfortune happens not only with small children, but also with adults. How to treat earache with folk remedies in this case should be considered in detail.

Initially, you need to get the subject guilty of the appearance unpleasant symptoms. To do this, pour a small amount of warm vegetable oil (not hot) into your ear. Use a weak stream of warm water to flush the object.

If it is an insect, instead of vegetable it is better to use propolis oil. Drop by drop it is poured into the ear canal until the uninvited guest appears on the surface. In this case, the person is ear up. If the subject has damaged the skin, it is necessary to make compresses or rinsing, for example

Noise in ears

Studying folk remedies for pain in the ears, you should consider another recipe. It is used when the discomfort is accompanied by a headache. At the same time can be observed Here will help heather.

A tablespoon of dry grass pour 0.5 liters of boiling water. Next, the mixture is boiled in a water bath for 10 minutes. Then it is necessary to wrap the container and insist the medicine for 3 hours. Strain the tool, it is drunk weekly 100 ml 1 time per day. After that, the dosage is increased to 200 ml. The medicine is taken for another 2 weeks. Then make a break for ten days. After the course is repeated again.

If the ear has deteriorated hearing, as an additional treatment can be applied infusion of licorice and chamomile. Infusion is prepared according to the instructions on the package. It is brewed every day, drinking all the contents in 4-5 doses. Treatment spend 10 days. Then the same time is required for a break. The course can be repeated again.

Sulfur plug

If a person has a sulfur plug, it can cause hearing loss. It may also require a remedy for ear pain. Folk remedies in this case will be most welcome.

This is a common ailment. Most often, the cork increases due to the constant ingress of water, dust into the canal, or when working continuously in windy weather without protective equipment. If the sulfuric plug has not yet formed, but there is a probability of its occurrence, it is necessary to wash the ears 2 times a month with warm water. It is poured inside with the help of a syringe. Head tilted while ear down.

After the procedure, it is necessary to thoroughly dry the auditory canals. You can use the hairdryer. A warm stream of air is sent to the ears.

If the plug is already formed, it is necessary to rinse the canals with warm vegetable oil. A few drops are injected into the ear, and the cork is washed out with a syringe. The procedure is carried out three times a day. Do not brush your ears with a match or other thin objects. They can damage the eardrum.

Conclusion

It is necessary to treat your health responsibly. You need to dress for the weather, do not supercool. Then do not need a medicine for pain in the ears. Folk remedies must be selected in accordance with the type of disease. Therefore, before committing any action, you must visit a doctor. Then recovery will happen quickly and without complications.

Why does ear pain occur? To relieve pain in this organ is quite simple, but before that it is necessary to identify the reason for its development. The treatment of such an unpleasant phenomenon should be directed not at the elimination of the symptoms, but at the complete elimination of the existing disease.

Main reasons

Before you remove the pain in the ear, you should determine why such a condition occurred.

According to experts, pain in a hearing aid is a fairly common symptom that worries not only children, but also adults. Such a pathological condition may occur due to:

• inflammatory diseases of the ears (eg, otitis) or neighboring organs;
• damage to the auditory nerve and nervous system;
• pathologies of adjacent organs (ENT organs, neck, brain, blood vessels, etc.);
• tumor processes.

Nature of pain

What is the pain in the ear? Only a doctor can relieve pain in this organ, relying on the symptoms. With various diseases, such unpleasant sensations can have a different character. They can be piercing, shooting, pressing and pulsing. Also, earache is often accompanied by other signs. The patient should tell their physician about them in order to facilitate the process of making the correct diagnosis to the doctor, which will allow you to prescribe an effective treatment.

Causes of discomfort in healthy people

Why do healthy people get ear pain? To relieve pain in this condition is possible for the patient himself, since such sensations do not always indicate the presence of one or another disease.

Sometimes a similar phenomenon occurs in a healthy person:

We can not say that the pain and dryness in the ears often indicate a lack earwax. As a rule, such sensations occur in too clean people who clean the ear canals several times a day.

Diseases causing pain in the ears

If your pain in the ears is not related to any of the above reasons, then, most likely, this or that disease is to blame.

Most often, ear pain (how to remove the pain, we will tell a little lower) in those people who suffer from external, otitis media or internal otitis. Only an experienced otolaryngologist will be able to make such a diagnosis, on the basis of the obtained tests and personal examination of the patient.

Pain after injury

Ear injuries very often cause pain. They may occur due to:

• bruises of the auricle;
• barotrauma, that is, a sharp increase in pressure inside the eardrum (for example, with sharp or loud sounds);
• the presence of a foreign body in the ear canal;
• frostbite or burns of the auricle, as well as skin in the ear;
• rupture of the eardrum (for example, after getting into the ears of certain foreign bodies).

How to remove the pain in the ear?

Only an experienced otolaryngologist can answer this question. As a rule, the treatment of such pain depends on the reasons for its development. Therefore, many experts do not recommend getting rid of discomfort   on their own. It is better to go to the hospital, where experienced doctors can not only make a diagnosis, but also find the necessary treatment regimen.

For ear burns, first aid to the victim depends on the degree of damage:

• If only redness occurs, then you should lubricate the skin with a solution of alcohol.
• If a second-degree burn was obtained, as a result of which blisters appeared on the skin, then it is necessary to rinse the area with cold water, then apply a clean bandage and immediately consult a doctor.
• In case of severe burns, it is necessary to visit the emergency room as soon as possible.

If you should cover your ear with a cotton swab, then go to the hospital.

If in auditory canal   horrible foreign body, then in no case can not extract it yourself. This should be done by an experienced ENT doctor.

Standard treatment

Child? To relieve pain, which arose for no apparent reason, as follows:

How to remove ear pain at home?

When pain in the ears can help such folk remedies as:

• Instill warm almond or peanut oil into the ear.
• The imposition of a compress from beets cooked in honey.
• Washing the ears with a strong extract of chamomile.
• Laying a tampon with onion or garlic juice in the ear canal.
• Instilling inferior infusion of lemon balm.
• Using drops prepared from alcoholic propolis tincture and honey in the ratio 1: 1 (3 drops once a day, before going to bed).

Often, in winter, the cold transferred on the legs leads to complications, among which the most common is otitis media - inflammation of the middle ear. When this appears shooting acute painsometimes the temperature rises. Otitis can also be a consequence of water trapped in the ear after bathing.

If you do not see a specialist in a timely manner, inflammation can lead to meningitis and impairment of hearing. There is no need to tolerate shooting ear pain before going to see a doctor. There are some simple tips to help reduce otitis pain.

Salt is the most affordable way to relieve pain in otitis. Dry salt should be heated in a pan or microwave oven   in a few minutes. Place the hot salt in the sock, tying the open end on the knot. This self-made heating pad should be put on sore ear   for 5-20 minutes. The dry heat generated by the salt will help draw out fluid from the ear, reduce puffiness and pain.

Alternatively, instead of salt, you can use rice.

Minor earache can be relieved with basil. You should squeeze the juice from fresh leaves and lubricate them around the ear.

Antimicrobial and analgesic properties of garlic can be used in the treatment of ear infections. A good remedy will be a mixture made from two cloves of garlic and two tablespoons of sunflower oil, which should be heated until it turns black. In the ear, you can drip from 2 to 4 drops of this oil, prior to its treating. In addition, a daily intake of two or three cloves of raw garlic will also help speed up the healing process.

4. Herbal inhalations

Herbal steam inhalations help reduce puffiness caused by cold, dry winter air. For herbal inhalations, add a handful of dry chamomile, lemon balm or elderberry flowers to a saucepan with water and bring to a boil. Cover with a large towel over a pot of water, and inhale the hot steam.

Hydrogen peroxide is one of the most popular remedies for pain in the ears. A few drops of the solution are able to clean and disinfect the ear passages and relieve pain. Moisten a cotton ball in the solution and squeeze a few drops in the ear.

Olive oil can stop the development of infection. Moisten a cotton swab in warm olive oil, gently squeeze and insert into the ear.

A mixture of equal parts of propolis tincture and honey is good remedyrelieving inflammation. This mixture of 2-3 drops instilled overnight in each ear. This tool can also be used for purulent otitis.

Antibacterial properties characteristic of oil tea tree, can lead to instant relief from earache. Two drops of a mixture consisting of 10 drops of olive or almond oil and 2 drops of tea tree oil are instilled into the ear.

Camphor oil is very effective at inflammatory diseases   middle ear. However, it is important to remember that you cannot put oil in your ear. It is better to moisten a cotton ball and squeeze it, insert into sore ear. It should be noted that camphor oil is not recommended for the treatment of otitis media in children under two years of age.

10. Walnuts

Squeeze the walnut oil through a press and drip it into the inflamed ear with two drops, preheating.

When otitis well, pain relieves compresses from alcohol solution (diluted in water 1: 2) or camphor oil. It should be noted that when compresses need to leave open the ear canal. In the napkin, moistened with a solution for a compress, cut a hole for the auricle.