Patients with otitis media will increase in summer, mostly caused by swimming. Why?

What reason is otitis media after swimming?

Summer is very hot, and swimming is a summer sport for most people. Usually, most parents will take their children to the swimming pool when their children are on holiday, but for children, they have no idea about healthy swimming. As long as they have fun, many parents will ignore this problem. In fact, if the swimming style and movements are improper, leading to suffocation, it is easy to cause otitis media.

When water enters the nose and ears, the bacteria in the water can easily retrograde to the eustachian tube through the nasal cavity and nasopharynx, and spread to the mucosa of the middle ear cavity, causing edema infection, leading to effusion and obstruction of the middle ear, and secretions can not flow out inside, which will cause acute otitis media. Especially in children, the eustachian tube is short and still in the development stage. Once you choke water when swimming, germs will easily take the opportunity to enter, leading to otitis media. In addition, cold, poor resistance, external auditory canal injury or excessive earwax may also lead to external auditory canal infection after swimming, which may lead to otitis media.

Can otitis media patients swim?

Swimming is a very popular sport. Some people like swimming even if they have otitis media. So, can otitis media patients swim?

Patients with otitis media are not necessarily prohibited from swimming, and swimming is completely fine after acute otitis media is cured. But for some patients with chronic long-term ear running water and pus, it should be noted that the ears can't get water when swimming. Because these patients have chronic inflammation, especially when they encounter water in an unclean swimming pool, they will have another acute attack and purulent secretion, so we should pay attention to this situation. Of course, you can plug your ears with special earplugs to prevent water from entering your ears.

If patients with otitis media have a cold, swimming and flying are not recommended. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out targeted prevention and treatment. Patients who have not suffered from otitis media do not need special prevention, because there is no chronic inflammation in the normal ear canal and middle ear. In particular, some water will not cause inflammation after entering. Normal people can clean their ears with cotton swabs after entering the water.

Generally speaking, when swimming, we should pay attention to the action norms, avoid swimming in unclean water, prohibit swimming when the body is not in good health, and avoid otitis media after swimming to a greater extent.