What's the matter with water coming out of your ears

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Under normal circumstances, the external auditory canal in most people is always clean except for some epithelial shedding and a little dry cerumen. If you find abnormal fluid accumulation or outflow in the external auditory canal, it is called "otorrhea" in medicine, also known as ear water, which is a common symptom of ear diseases. The most common disease of otorrhea is chronic suppurative otitis media. The nature of otorrhea ranges from watery to thick stench. Some patients had persistent otorrhea, while others had occasional otorrhea. Otorrhea can come from different parts of the external auditory canal, middle ear and tissues around the middle ear.

What's the matter with water coming out of your ears

First: fat ear leakage: due to the excessive secretion of cerumen gland in the external auditory canal, most of them are yellowish brown or yellowish sticky oil, generally without odor, commonly known as oil ear.

Second: purulent otorrhea: is the manifestation of suppurative inflammation, common in acute and chronic suppurative otitis media, otitis externa, furuncle and so on. In addition, the rare suppurative parotitis, suppurative cervical lymphadenitis, burst into the external auditory canal can also appear purulent otorrhea. The possibility of cholesteatoma should be considered if there is not much pus and stench.

Third: bloody otorrhea: mostly related to trauma, bullous tympanitis, ear trauma, part of otitis media can also be considered, but we should be alert to hemangioma or middle ear cancer. Especially in the middle ear cancer, pus with blood, the pus has a bad smell, or severe earache, headache, it is an ominous sign. The suspicious tissues in the external auditory canal or middle ear should be taken for pathological examination to determine the diagnosis and treatment.

matters needing attention

We should pay attention to the protection of our ears in our life. For example, when we take a bath or swim, we should protect our ears as much as possible without water. Then we should be healthy and keep our ears clean. We should clean up the foreign bodies in time, otherwise it may cause ear inflammation and infection.