What to do if your eardrum is bleeding

Many people have the habit of picking their ears, and sometimes blood flows out, which looks very scary. What should you do if your eardrum is bleeding? At this time, we need to see the cause. If it's just a broken skin with bleeding, there's no need to worry too much. Just use medicine to reduce inflammation. If the rupture of the eardrum is caused by trauma, you should seek medical treatment promptly and pay attention to the possibility of infection. In short, ear bleeding must be taken seriously, bandaged in time and the cause must be found out.

1. What to do if your ears bleed?

The main reason for ear picking is bleeding due to capillary damage, but it may also be caused by perforation of the eardrum due to picking. What should you do if your ears bleed?

1. Do not drop medicine into the ears or flush the external auditory canal casually to avoid accidentally bringing bacteria into the middle ear and causing otitis media.

2. Be careful not to pour water into the external auditory canal when washing your face, washing your hair, or taking a bath. At the same time, try not to blow your nose or blow it as little as possible to prevent gas and mucus from entering the tympanic cavity through the Eustachian tube and causing otitis media.

Be careful not to pour water into the external auditory canal when washing your face, hair, or bathing.

3. If the bleeding is caused by traumatic rupture of the tympanic membrane, it should be treated promptly to prevent infection.

4. The patient should remain in a side-lying position with the head tilted toward the bleeding side to allow the blood or cerebrospinal fluid to flow out.

If you bleed when you pick your ears, you should go to the hospital for a check-up in time to further confirm what disease you have so that the doctor can provide targeted treatment.

2. How to deal with bleeding from ears

1. Ear bleeding often occurs when the eardrum is perforated or the skull base is fractured. The eardrum is a thin membrane with a certain toughness, located deep in the external auditory canal, and is an important component of the human sound conduction system.

2. The eardrum is easily ruptured by direct or indirect impact. Direct injuries are more common when the tweezers or hairpins used for ear cleaning are inserted too deep into the ear canal, thus puncturing the eardrum.

Indirect impact is often caused by the sound waves during an explosion rupturing the eardrum; the eardrum may also be ruptured by diving, boxing the ears, or a sudden fall while skating. When head trauma causes a skull base fracture, the eardrum may also be injured and ruptured.

Once the eardrum ruptures, there is a sudden severe pain in the ear, followed by tinnitus and deafness, and a small amount of blood flows out of the external auditory canal. In severe cases, it is accompanied by dizziness, nausea, vomiting, etc. During otoscopy, blood was seen in the external auditory canal and irregular perforations in the tympanic membrane. Patients suspected of having a ruptured eardrum should be sent to the hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible.

3. Initial consideration is that it is caused by external auditory canal injury. After detailed examination, active treatment should be given.

Suggestions: Eat a balanced diet, strengthen hygiene, keep the area clean, avoid adverse stimuli, and give up the bad habit of digging the ear canal. Apply chloramphenicol locally, take spiramycin, amoxicillin, etc. to actively control infection. Use vitamin C, K, and anloxin for bleeding, and diclofenac for pain.