Stuffy ears

Introduction In daily life, many people often feel ear suffocation, that is, there is a sense of blockage in the ear, just like a cotton wrap in the ear, and the speech seems to feel the sound in the ear. In addition, the ear suffocation often accompanied by hearing loss. Tinnitus, etc., is very uncomfortable. For the external ear, in general, lesions that can cause blockage of the external auditory canal can produce a feeling of ear suffocation, such as sputum occlusion, especially when the sputum completely blocks the external auditory canal. For the middle ear, the ear suffocation is mainly caused by eustachian tube disease. A relatively rare condition is an inner ear disease, mainly caused by a membrane labyrinth.

Cause

Our ears are divided into three parts: the outer ear, the middle ear and the inner ear. Any abnormality in any part can cause ear nausea. Some common causes of ear nausea are:

1. For the external ear, in general, the lesions that can cause blockage of the external auditory canal can produce ear suffocation, such as sputum occlusion, especially when the external auditory canal is completely blocked, the external auditory canal is swollen, and the external auditory canal can be blocked when the edema is large. Foreign objects, children like to put rubber, mung beans, plastic beads, etc. into the external auditory canal, adults often fly insects into the external auditory canal in the summer, and finally some tumors of the external auditory canal, such as the external auditory canal tumor.

2, for the middle ear, causing ear suffocation is mainly caused by eustachian tube disease. The tympanic cavity of the middle ear is like a small box of cubes, and the side of the external auditory canal is the tympanic membrane. Only when the pressure in the tympanic chamber is equal to the external atmospheric pressure, that is, the pressure on the inside and outside of the tympanic membrane is equal, the sound can be best transmitted to the inner ear for people to hear. In order to do this, the ear and the nose are connected by a tube called the Eustachian tube. When you swallow or yawn, the tube will open. When the air enters the ear from the nose, the pressure in the drum chamber is maintained at an atmospheric pressure. . If you encounter a cold, etc., the mucous membrane of the nasal cavity of the eustachian tube is swollen, the tube can not be opened, and the tympanic cavity becomes a closed cavity. After a long time, the air inside is absorbed by the mucous membrane, and the tympanic chamber becomes negative pressure. Ear stuffy.

3, the common causes of eustachian tube dysfunction are: acute rhinitis is a common cold, at this time nasal mucosa congestion caused by eustachian tube pharyngeal stenosis, chronic rhinitis, allergic rhinitis and nasal polyps, severe septum Quc et al can also cause pharyngeal stenosis and occlusion of the eustachian tube, adenoid hypertrophy, adenoids are lymphoid tissues located in the nasopharynx. Adenoids are often larger in childhood, and the adenoids gradually become larger with age. Narrowing, sometimes adenoid hypertrophy can block the eustachian tube mouth, congenital cleft palate deformity, cleft palate due to levator levator muscle, snorkel muscle dysfunction caused by eustachian tube opening open mouth, nasopharyngeal tumor, nasopharyngeal Benign tumors are mainly hemangioma of the nasopharynx, and malignant tumors are mainly nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

4, the rare case is the inner ear disease, mainly caused by membrane labyrinthopathy, the most important inner ear lesion causing ear nausea is Meniere's disease, the patient has ear swelling, tinnitus, accompanied by paroxysmal vertigo and volatility Hearing loss is its main feature.

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The hearing test of a single ear is the same as that of a normal person, but the direction of the hearing sound of the single ear is weak, and only the volume is sensed, the direction of the pronunciation is not clear, and there is a certain blind zone in front of the hearing of both ears.

Differential diagnosis

The diagnosis should be differentiated from the following symptoms:

1. Ear canal blockage

Occlusion of the ear canal refers to a disease caused by obstruction of the ear canal. It is commonly known as earwax and deafness, which is the normal secretion of the ear canal. It can be self-extracted without clogging and causing symptoms. If it condenses into nucleus and blocks the ear canal, it will become a sputum, which is also known as sputum embolism.

Ear plug

Ear blockage is a symptom of sudden deafness, and the ear blockage usually precedes deafness. Sudden deafness (hereinafter referred to as abrupt) is a sudden onset of sensory neurological deafness, also known as violent. Its onset is rapid, rapid progress, and the treatment effect is directly related to the time of treatment. It should be regarded as an emergency department for otology.

3. In-ear occlusion

The sense of occlusion in the ear means that the ear is blocked by a mass of cotton and the hearing is degraded. Tinnitus, hearing loss, and occlusion in the ear are common symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. When nasopharyngeal carcinoma occurs in the side wall of the nasopharynx, when the lateral fossa or the eustachian tube opens the upper lip, the tumor can be unilaterally tinnitus or hearing. Decline, catarrhal otitis media can also occur.

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