Pain in the ear, what to do?

If after a cold or flu you have pain in your ear, be sure to turn to LOR.
Otitis is too dangerous a disease to be neglected.
Ear pain, like a faithful companion, accompanies a cold and colds. Inflammation, which develops due to infection in the middle ear, is called otitis in medicine. Only warm-ups and pharmaceutical drops can not do, consultation and supervision of specialists are mandatory!
Your labyrinths
Otitis occurs external, middle and inner. Otitis externa most often occurs in swimmers and pool lovers. It is also called "swimmer's ear". Seasonal exacerbation happens in the summer. It is treated quickly and does not cause any special troubles.
The average otitis is just the inflammation that is inherited by every third person who has had an acute respiratory viral infection, influenza, angina, rhinitis and other ailments of the throat or nose. The main cause of otitis media is caused by pathogenic microorganisms: staphylococci, streptococci, pneumococci.

Infectious nature accounts for 80% of all otitis media. The remaining 20% ​​are bacterial and allergic reactions. Internal otitis (labyrinthitis) occurs due to improper treatment of otitis media and requires urgent hospitalization.
Most often, on the 4th day after the onset of a cold, the ears begin to hurt. Then it develops into a sharp pain (shooting, pricking, throbbing). When you click on the tragus, there is a piercing pain. There is a deterioration in overall well-being: sleep disturbances, loss of appetite, weakness.
At such symptoms it is necessary to address at once for the help to LORu. Delay is dangerous, especially if the symptoms are associated with a headache, discharge from the ear, and the temperature bar rises above 38-38.5 ° C.

Why does the pain in the ears most often appear at night? Yes, because the outflow of mucus is difficult in the horizontal position. In this position, the infection is unimpeded and very quickly enters the middle ear and causes inflammation.
Just make a compress - dry heat activates blood and lymph circulation, which relieves swelling and reduces pain. Compress helps only in the first 3-4 hours of the development of pain. After 15-20 minutes, the heat acts as a sleeping pill.

First aid
If the pain is unbearable and waiting for the doctor does not have the strength to endure, you can strictly follow the dosage written in the instructions to take a suspension of pain medication (nurofen). If the ear is dry, you can put a turundochku, impregnated with otypaksom or anaurana. But remember! If you have at least once in your life had purulent discharge from the ears, do not engage in self-medication! Burying ear drops before a physical examination is dangerous. Only the doctor can determine if the tympanic membrane is damaged or not. Having dripped drops, you can damage the auditory ossicles, and this will lead to damage to the auditory nerve and partial loss of hearing.

Ear as a target
Call the doctor in the morning! Only he will put an accurate diagnosis and separate the ear inflammation from other ailments having a similar clinical picture.
Depending on the type of inflammation (acute or chronic otitis media), the physician chooses the treatment tactics. Most often, in the treatment of acute otitis media, conservative treatment is used. With purulent otitis media, a course of antibiotics is mandatory for 5-7-10 days (depending on the severity of the condition and how effective the therapy is).
The prescribed antibiotic therapy must be completely passed, even if you feel better. The otitis treatment regimen is designed in such a way as to slowly, but surely, remove the entire infection from the body. If you do not do this and quit treatment halfway, the infection will remain inside and at the first opportunity declare itself a new pain. But you in fact hardly want to know in detail what is a protracted otitis media?
From the fragrant leaves of the laurel tree, you can prepare a wonderful broth for rinsing the ear canals in otitis, when the inflamed eardrum loses its ability to recognize sounds and sharply worsens hearing.

Due to the large content of phytoncides, tannins and essential trace elements, bay oil is considered one of the best means for sinusitis. Therefore, it is advisable to rinse not only the ear but also the nasal passages with the prepared broth, because the inflammatory processes in them are always connected. You will need dry laurel leaves, fortunately, they completely retain their healing properties when drying, unlike other medicinal plants. Pour a glass of purified water into the enamelware, throw 4-5 medium-sized leaves, cut the lid and bring the liquid to a boil. Then take it off the fire, wrap it in a blanket for a couple of hours. The resulting broth strain. In its warm form, it can be used for both rinses and instillations, if there are no contraindications to the treating doctor.