Ear discharge does it stop without surgery? Your ear discharge doesn’t stop?
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The ear has normal waxy debris, which under usual circumstances self-cleansing. It can get impacted by dry weather, dehydration, people who drink less water, etc.
Interestingly, there is an incidental history of constipation and impacted wax in adults and children.
If ear discharge is purulent pus with earache and you can’t touch your ear, it can be a bacterial or fungal otitis externa. If earache occurs with swallowing, belching, chewing with occasion mucoid mixed with pus or blood occurring for a few days, usually after 7 days of URI Cold and cough, it may be acute suppurative otitis media. Timely consultation with an ENT doctor will help you get better stop discharge and prevent long-term complications like hearing loss.
History of ear discharge
Ear discharge for several years with profuse mucopurulent discharge, perforated eardrum. This condition needs surgery and is likely to be chronic suppurative otitis media.
But doctor, I am sometimes having ear discharge even after ear surgery.?
When Modified Radical Mastoidectomy or Radical Mastoidectomy is done, sometimes the extensive disease requires an extensive cavity, which can sometimes have cavity problems. In case of cavity issues, sometimes a second-stage surgery is done for reconstruction of the canal wall. In our country, patients are often not clear about the need for the second stage and it’s helpful to go for the second stage after a period of observation of the cavity to see for residual or recurrence.
In case of ear discharge after tympanoplasty, mastoidectomy, residual disease, or recurrence, both need evaluation.
Since a patient with chronic suppurative otitis media often has associated hearing loss, it’s important to explain the problem to his or her family member appropriately and in writing. Because communication is key to understanding.
Investigations are crucial fur decisions making, patient understanding, and medico-legal purposes. In case of economic backwardness, the Government medical colleges provide free treatment and the patient is told about all his or her options before surgery.
Transparent communication builds trust and helps patients get better soon.
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This is very interesting, I never knew the different causes of ear discharge.
Interesting the link between constipation and impacted wax! That would be an interesting study.
This is so interesting, thank you for sharing. What really surprised me was the link between constipation and compacted ear wax, for those of us not so well-versed in the human body, this was shocking!