Symptoms of perforation of eardrum

Update Date: 2025-10-22 Source: Network

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After the rupture of the eardrum, you may suddenly feel earache, hearing loss, tinnitus, a small amount of bleeding and stuffy feeling in the ear. Blast injury can not only cause rupture of eardrum, but also damage inner ear due to strong movement of stapes, resulting in vertigo, nausea or mixed deafness. The examination showed that the eardrum was mostly fissured perforation, with a small amount of blood on the edge of the perforation, and sometimes blood or scab could be seen in the external auditory canal. If there is water outflow, there is cerebrospinal fluid otorrhea caused by skull base fracture. Deafness is conductive or mixed. What are the symptoms of eardrum perforation?

Symptoms of perforation of eardrum

When the drum is broken, you will feel nervous without any symptoms. After injury, sudden deafness or sudden deafness, accompanied by tinnitus, tinnitus, or sudden deafness. A small amount of blood flowed from the external auditory canal; If accompanied by inner ear injury, there are vertigo, nausea and severe deafness. Examination showed blood stains in the external auditory canal and irregular perforation of the eardrum.

Do not flush the external auditory canal with water, and do not use any medicine to drop the ear, because it is not beneficial. On the contrary, it can make bacteria enter the middle ear and cause infection.

Don't blow your nose hard. If you have a nose, you can inhale it and spit it out. You can also take some anti-inflammatory drugs to avoid infection. If infection occurs, cause suppurative otitis media, according to the treatment of otitis media.

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Keep the external auditory canal clean and dry. After trauma, alcohol can be used to disinfect the external auditory canal, wipe and remove foreign bodies and cerumen. Do not remove the blood scab attached to the eardrum, so as not to cause bacterial infection. Use sterilized cotton to gently plug in the external auditory meatus to prevent dirt from entering the ear and causing infection.