[Explanation] What are the truths and myths about the ear?
March 3 is the 23rd National Ear Day. At the Binhu Hospital of the First People's Hospital of Hefei City, Anhui Province, an ear-themed science popularization and free clinic activities attracted many citizens.
Xu Zhihua, chief physician of the otolaryngology department of the hospital, has popularized several truths about the ear that you must know.
[Explanation] As the hearing organ, the ear has two important functions, one is hearing and the other is balance.
Earache, deafness, tinnitus and vertigo are the most common clinical ear discomforts. Except for a small number of congenital patients, most acquired ear diseases are caused by poor lifestyle.
[Explanation] According to Xu Zhihua, the first misunderstanding about ears is "ear picking", which is often referred to as "ear picking".
In fact, the secretions in the ear are also called cerumen. The cerumen can protect the ear against the invasion of bacteria and the invasion of foreign objects.
If unclean objects such as cotton swabs, ear spoons or fingers damage the skin of the external auditory canal after picking the ear, it may cause inflammation or even fungal infection.
[Concurrent] Xu Zhihua, Chief Physician of the Department of Otolaryngology, Binhu Hospital, Hefei First People's Hospital, Anhui Province
After the ear picking of this kind of ear, it can contagious some other diseases, because the disinfection of it cannot be very strict, and then it is very troublesome to transmit some other diseases, so we do not recommend ear picking outside.
I don’t usually advocate that I always pick my ears, because the ears themselves have a self-purification function. If the ears are uncomfortable or blocked, it may be better to go to a professional institution for treatment.
[Explanation] According to Xu Zhihua, tinnitus is a symptom that people often encounter, and most tinnitus is caused by noise stimulation and emotional stress.
If there is tinnitus accompanied by hearing changes and tinnitus that affects sleep, you must seek medical attention in time for symptomatic treatment.
[Concurrent] Xu Zhihua, Chief Physician of the Department of Otolaryngology, Binhu Hospital, Hefei First People's Hospital, Anhui Province
There are many reasons for this kind of tinnitus.
Now our simplest form of conscious tinnitus, such as cerumen plugging the earwax after the blockage, its small cerumen touches the eardrum, for example, there are many patients whose ears ring when I speak or shake my head, this is There is this tinnitus caused by a foreign body.
Another is that inflammation of the ear can also cause tinnitus.
When tinnitus patients have tinnitus, they must seek medical attention in time, because the early treatment effect of this kind of tinnitus is better. If the time is relatively long, the effect of our treatment may be poor.
[Explanation] In fact, many symptoms of vertigo are also related to the ear.
Vertigo, dizziness, tinnitus and deafness are common and multiple symptoms with various etiologies and may involve multiple departments.
[Concurrent] Xu Zhihua, Chief Physician of the Department of Otolaryngology, Binhu Hospital, Hefei First People's Hospital, Anhui Province
Vertigo is a very complex problem, many of which are otogenic, and otogenic vertigo accounts for a considerable part, so many vertigo patients may not necessarily come to the ENT department when they first seek medical treatment, because vertigo is a simple dizziness.
Another type of vertigo is associated with hearing loss.
Therefore, it is recommended that patients with this kind of dizziness should seek medical treatment in time, and try to see an ENT doctor as much as possible, and then go through ENT screening to exclude ENT-related diseases, because most of them may be related to the vestibule.
[Explanation] It is understood that at present, through the genetic testing and screening of couples, as well as the detection and treatment of hearing impairment in infants and adolescents, the occurrence of diseases such as hearing impairment in infants and adolescents can be greatly reduced.
[Concurrent] Liu Quan, Chief Physician of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of the First People's Hospital of Hefei City, Anhui Province
The way our deafness gene is inherited is an autosomal dominant inheritance. In fact, we can actively discover it before and during pregnancy. We recommend that pregnant women who are planning to become pregnant and pregnant women in early pregnancy can actively go to the hospital and carry out The examination of the chromosome core and the analysis and diagnosis of genes can prevent the birth of children (with diseases).
Reporter Zhang Jun reports from Hefei, Anhui
Responsible editor: [Lu Yan]