Ear pain after swimming, why do ears hurt when swimming?

It may be the cause of the following diseases.

1. Conjunctivitis: It is one of the common diseases in swimming, which is manifested as red and swollen eyes, foreign body sensation, pain and discomfort. The most common of these are swimming pool conjunctivitis caused by chlamydia and acute catarrhal conjunctivitis caused by bacteria.

It is best to wear waterproof glasses when swimming, if you feel eye discomfort after swimming, you can use rifampicin eye solution or chloramphenicol eye solution for prevention, pay attention not to rub your eyes with your hands or wipe your eyes with unclean towels.

2. Otitis media: After swimming, if there is ear pain, or even fever and pus, it is the water with bacteria that has been poured into the ears during swimming. Therefore, when the pool water enters the ears, you can tilt your head to the side of the water, or supplement it with a one-foot jump, so that it will flow out naturally, and do not pick it with your hands or other objects.

To prevent pool water from getting into your ears, it is best to wear earplugs. In case of earache after swimming, compound neomycin or chloramphenicol glycerin ear drops should be applied to the ear.

3. Sinusitis: Diving and diving can easily cause water into the nasal cavity and bring water into the sinuses that communicate with it. If the water is not clean, it can cause sinusitis, which can cause symptoms such as nasal congestion, nasal pain, runny nose or headache.

** Nasal drops of 1% ephedrine and streptomycin can be used alternately.

4. Laryngitis: It mostly occurs after choking or swallowing water, and is often accompanied by cough in addition to throat discomfort or pain. Mild cases can be gargled with Dobel solution or anti-inflammatory lozenges, and severe cases should go to the hospital for examination in time.

5. Contact dermatitis or allergic dermatitis: In natural waters, it is sometimes invaded by chemicals contained in industrial wastewater and domestic sewage, resulting in dermatitis and small red papules on the body surface. Calamine lotion can be rubbed several times a day.

In the future, it is better to wear earplugs for swimming.

This situation is normal, many people are like this, it will be fine in a few days, if it is still like this for a long time, you may have oduritis or otitis media, seek medical attention**.

If you have ear pain while swimming, you may have otitis media, and you can use a swimming style that keeps your head up on the water!

I'll give you a trick to help you swim later: take a breath before you get into the water, but don't feel like you swallow it all, and still have some in your throat that feels best! In this way, your upper jaw is lifted upwards, and your nose will not enter the water if you don't suck it, and at the same time, the ear with the eardrum facing outward will not enter the water!

Happy swimming!

Because the bacteria in the water enter the ear, causing inflammation of the middle ear. People who swim often are infected by unclean water in swimming pools, which can easily cause ear inflammation, among which otitis media and otitis externa are the most common.

What to do if your ears hurt after swimming?

1. Acute otitis media should be treated with a doctor**, after taking the medicine, most of them can be cured in about 10 to 14 days, during this period, it is forbidden to swim, and special care should be taken when washing hair to prevent water from entering the ears again.

2. When you feel itchy in your ears after swimming, have a feeling of being blocked by a foreign body, turn your head or pull your ears, and feel pain in your ears, you should first think that you may have suffered from otitis externa, especially those with allergies, psoriasis, eczema or seborrheic dermatitis.

3. Rinse the ear canal immediately after swimming with a mixture of 1 1 alcohol and vinegar to prevent infection, alcohol helps to remove water from the ear canal? Vinegar can change the pH value in the ear canal, 2% acetic acid drops 5 drops each time, 3 times a day, for 1 day can change the pH of the external ear canal. The ** of otitis externa is a topical ear drop.

4. Use a suction or dry cotton swab to lightly clean the infection desquamation in the external ear canal, and then use neomycin sulfate ear drops, which can effectively ** common infections, 5 drops each time, 3 times a day, for 7 days, and add 1% hydrocortisone to reduce swelling and enhance the effect of acetic acid.

5. Within the first 24 to 48 hours of onset, dry and hot compresses can help relieve pain and speed up healing. People who do not respond to topical antibiotics may be switched to oral antistreptococcal antibiotics** for 7 days. Boils in the external auditory canal should be allowed to rupture and drain on their own.

6. The easiest way to deal with head pain after swimming is to raise your head as high as possible, and leaning on your head will make the ear pain worse.

7. Wring out a hot towel over your ears once every two hours for 10 to 15 minutes each time.

8. Heat mineral oil or baby oil slightly to lukewarm and use an ear dropper to slowly drip oil into the ear canal, but if you see or feel liquid coming out of your ear, do not drip in the oil droplets. It's actually good that something comes out, and when the eardrum is injured, pus comes out, which has a warning effect. Understand the source of the pain, treat it, and recover quickly.

10. Mix vinegar and water in equal proportions, and drop 6 10 drops into the ear with a dropper. The ear canal is generally weakly acidic, and once infected, the acidity decreases, helping bacteria to grow. Vinegar can maintain the normal pH of the ear canal and prevent the ear infection from worsening.

If you know that your eardrum is torturous, you can see or feel something coming out of your ear, or you can't hear sound at all, you shouldn't rinse your ear with vinegar.

11. Within an hour after swimming, drop one or two drops of medicinal alcohol into the ears to dry out the ear canal and help prevent swimming ears.

It is recommended not to swim in the water for 3-5 days, or wear protective equipment when swimming, to avoid re-entering the water in the ears.

Don't worry!! Generally, it will hurt a little when I go swimming for the first time every year, because there is water pressure, and I don't get used to it all of a sudden, and it won't be the next day, and it will be when diving, because the deeper the water, the greater the pressure, and the pressure that everyone bears is different.

If it was otitis media, it should have been detected earlier! It hurts when you pick up earwax.