What causes ear pain?

When a child suffers from any minor illness or pain such as dizziness or fever, the parents are the ones who are most worried and heartbroken. Earache in children is one of the more common childhood diseases, and many children will experience various symptoms and phenomena. Therefore, many parents are confused about this. So what is the matter with children's ear pain? What causes ear pain?

Experts tell us that there are many reasons that cause ear pain in children. Of course, different symptoms and causes require different treatment methods. Therefore, if you want to know how to treat earache, you must first understand the cause of children's earache so that you can better prescribe the right medicine. So what exactly causes ear pain?

What causes ear pain?

1. Ear neuralgia: There are many nerves around the ears, and ear pain will occur when the ears are exposed to too strong or too long noise or unexplained stimulation.

2. Otitis externa: When the ear feels uncomfortable or itchy, some people like to dig blindly in the ear with fingernails, hairpins, knitting needles, short wooden sticks, matchsticks, etc. If you dig too hard or if you are bumped into by someone, it is easy to puncture the skin of the ear canal and cause skin infection and inflammation. This disease not only causes ear pain, but may also be accompanied by bleeding.

3. Ear herpes: This is related to viral infection. It is more common on the auricle, and the ear pain it causes is like a needle prick or burning, which is very uncomfortable. A few people may also have symptoms such as facial nerve paralysis, hearing loss, nausea, and vomiting.

4. Ear tumor: When a malignant tumor grows in the ear canal or middle ear cavity, as the disease progresses, the malignant tumor infiltrates into the surrounding tissues. In addition to symptoms such as bleeding in the ear canal and hearing loss, there will also be ear pain of varying degrees.

5. External auditory canal furuncle: When external otitis is not treated in time, or when the person is old and weak, suffers from diabetes, or the ear canal skin is soaked in water for a long time and the skin surface resistance is weakened, ear canal furuncle is likely to occur. The boil will gradually swell and fester, blocking the ear canal and causing gradually worsening pain.

6. Acute otitis media: When a bacterial suppurative infection occurs in the middle ear cavity, the pus continues to increase and directly compresses the pain-sensitive eardrum, causing intermittent pain in the ear, which may present a pulsating pain with the pulse beating.

I believe that parents already know what causes earache in children. In fact, children's ear pain is caused by many reasons. In addition to excessive noise causing ear pain, it may also be related to otitis media or even external otitis. It may also be ear herpes, etc. Therefore, if your child often complains of ear discomfort or ear pain, you should take the child to the hospital for medical treatment and examination in time.