Ear
Care about your ear
The ear is the organ that gives us one of the five senses most needy (and less care) of our body. Without it, we could not hear music, listening to others and to nature, discuss., balance … We should be more aware of their importance and to protect the most of the harsh external aggressions such as noise, poor hygiene, etc.
* The ear hygiene.
On one occasion treat ear cleaning. To avoid repeating ourselves, we remember the importance of avoiding the rods because they introduce more wax, and instead of helping, the situation worsens. Use a special spray and serum with gauze.
* noises.
They themselves are the true enemies of your ear. According to WHO, the World Health Organization, we would only hear sounds with a maximum of 65 decibels. How do we know which noises have this measure? Simple, a bus produces 76 decibels and 90 decibels can cause hearing loss, if exposure is continuous. Also, it is essential to avoid listening devices such as MP3 music with the volume too high because, even if you believe it or not, in a few years and you’ll hear much less asking that you scream.
Diseases of The External Ear Otitis
Otitis externa is an inflammation of the ear canal.
These infections can attack the entire canal (otitis externa generalized) or only in specific areas, such as cooking furunkel) (.
OE is often) as ear Swimmer’s ear (nadador.
Generalized number of bacteria or fungi (rarely) may cause otitis externa, staph bacteria often cause ulcers.
Some people (people with allergies, psoriasis), eczema or dermatitis) is on the scalp is very sensitive to external otitis.
) Violation of the ear canal during cleaning or water ingress / stimuli (such as a spray or paint on the hair can lead to otitis externa.
You can clean the ear canal with a way to remove dead skin cells, even from the eardrum through the ear canal.
) The cleaning of the ear canal with a cotton swab (cotton cleaners, can interfere with the cleaning mechanism and perhaps the skin cells that stimulate the eardrum to the mound there.
The accumulation of serum and skin cells to die is an accumulation of water in the main channel for bathing or swimming. Skin soft and moist in the ear canal is more easily infected by bacteria or fungi.
Symptoms of generalized external otitis are itching, pain and nausea.
If the ear canal swells or fills with pus and skin cells are dead, there may be loss of hearing.
usually if you pull the ears or in front of the ear canal skin is pressed, it will be pain.
Otoscope with ear canal skin is red, swollen, pus-filled skin cells are dead.
Ulcers caused great pain.
If it breaks asthma, leave the blood and pus in the ear.
general treatment of otitis externa, the first removal of dead cells infected ear canal suction or dry cotton. cleaned after the ear canal, in general, function returns to normal hearing.
Usually given antibiotic ear drops for several days. Steroid few drops ear inflammation.
Sometimes ear drops obtained with acetic acid to restore the acid in the ear canal.
Reducing pain in the first 24-48 hours can be given acetaminophen or codeine.
Infection that has spread outside the ear canal (cellulitis), is with oral antibiotics (by mouth) were treated.
Kitchen burst itself, because if you accidentally cut may lead to the spread of infection.
Ear drops containing antibiotics are not effective.
They can relieve pain and promote healing to be done, hot pack (one minute) and the provision of drugs for pain.
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Keeping Ear Health
Most of the sound is a combination of signals, but the pure sound could theoretically be explained by the speed of oscillation or frequency measured in Hertz (Hz) and amplitude or loudness measuring sound in decibels. The sound could be heard by the human ear in case of vibrations in the air or other medium to the human eardrum. Limit the frequency of sound that can be heard by the human ear from approximately 20 Hz to 20 kHz in general amplitude with variations in the response curve.
Tool human ear and hearing constantly working as a door of communication and information through a complex process of transformation and complex to interpret the sound vibrations and sound environment. Without us realizing it, people did not escape the dangers of various factors that can interfere with its function. One of them is exposure to the sound of an increasingly noisy environment, which can cause hearing loss and health in general.
Continuous noise above 85 decibels will not only cause a complaint to the ear and hearing, but various studies have shown an increase in blood pressure, sleep disorders, digestive disorders, increased emotions, and various disorders caused by stress. As we know, many kinds of activities that exceed the threshold of 85 decibels, such as machine tools, bustling traffic, using the loudspeaker music, games, and other recreational activities. Thus, the most vulnerable are the construction and factory workers, those who move and live highway sidewalk, and the children.
Middle ear muscles in humans who work constantly not be able to survive the noise situation is too strong and continuous, so there are damaging excess stimulation function of hair cells. Hair cell damage may be temporary only in the beginning so that it will happen while deafness. However, later when there is constant stimulation, permanent damage, hair cell receptors that serve to dampen the vibration will be reduced to disappear and there settled deafness.
Deafness will occur in both ears symmetrically with the first high note, especially in frequency from 3000 to 6000 Hz. Often there is also a sharp reduction (dip) only in the frequency of 4000 Hz, which is typical for hearing loss from noise. Because the affected is a higher tone than the tone of human conversation, often in the beginning was not felt by the sufferer as they are not so obvious problems when communicating with others.
It must be understood that the higher the exposure to noise, the less exposure time period is safe. For example at 115 decibels (rock concert), 15 minutes alone dangerous, at 130 decibels (a jet engine), two minutes can cause hearing loss. Classical music and gamelan orchestra can also give exposure to noise over 85 decibels, but unlike the industry noise, intensity intermittent, alternating between the hard and soft, and the variation of tone that is wide enough, so that proved less harmful to the hearing. Even so, remain in the case of some musicians, that is between 10 to 50 percent may have a hearing loss.
In the event of deafness due to noise, can not be good again and need hearing aids are quite expensive. Therefore, better to avoid the noise and various tips. How? Avoid noise, reducing the volume of the sound around, and using protective equipment. Like the opinion of Helen Keller – a deaf and blind since the age of a toddler – when asked, if he got a second chance, which wants the removal? He said, wanted to be born again without hearing loss due to blindness separates it from the objects, while separating it from the human deafness.
Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialist
Hearing is the sense by which sounds are appreciated. Referred to as the watchdog of the senses, hearing is the last sense to disappear when one falls asleep and the first to return when one awakens. Position sense refers to the orientation of the head in space and the movement of the body through space, its balance and equilibrium. The word auditory refers to the sense of hearing the comes from the latin word ” audir” which means ‘to hear’.
The physical nature of sound results from the compression and rarefaction of pressure waves and moving molecules, but the sensations that humans actually experience are the product of complex mechnical, electrical, and psychological interactions in the ear and central nervous system. Studies of the ear and the diseases that they have are called or known as ” Otology “, Which comes from the Greek word o’tos, meaning ear. Principles applied to all operations on the ear and temporal bone include the necessity for maintaining aseptic techniques, Microscopes, The development of improved instrumentation, and the use of preoperative sedation, anesthesia, and antibiotic therapy. The success of this type of procedure and the restoration of useful hearing is attributed to new concepts and techniques, The types of approaches to gain access to the temporal region, and the improvements in the design and materials used in implantable prosthetic devices. The better understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the ear has allowed the surgeon to perform reconstructive surgeries to improve the patients hearing and equilibrium and to have greater control of diseases in the middle ear and mastoid.
Procedures to correct conductive hearing loss resulting from conductive apparatus abnormities may include a stapedectomy and partial or total ossicular replacement surgery. Surgical Treatment for sensorineural hearing loss, or meniere’s disease, can be offered to patients suffering from intolerable tinnitus or the disabling effects of vertigo. Cochlear implants and implantable hearing aids have brought new hope for def patients. New monitoring techniques have proved to bebenficial in the preservation of the facial nerve by minimizing trauma during reconstructive surgery. New diagnostic devices and techniques have given us the resources to identify the anatomic areas that may present a surgical challenge and to plan the best approach to the target tissue. This same methodology will help patients to better understand their diseases. This technology will also give the surgeon the ability to see the best approach of the surgery before he or she begins to operate.
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