Is traumatic tympanic membrane perforation serious?

Every year, many people go to the ENT department to see their ears, because our hearing is likely to be affected. For example, some of our rhinitis and pharyngitis diseases are particularly prone to ear diseases. Frequent earwax digging is also particularly prone to bacterial infection of the ears. Traumatic eardrum perforation is generally caused by accidental injury. So is traumatic eardrum perforation serious?

Patients with tympanic membrane perforation should go to the ENT department of the hospital to check the location, extent and cause of the perforation. If necessary, audiometry and bilateral mastoid photography should be performed. If you have ulcer-type or cholesteatoma-type otitis media, you must undergo surgery as soon as possible to remove the lesion and prevent complications; if the middle ear is only simply inflamed, you must receive timely and reasonable treatment to dry the water as soon as possible. For patients with perforated tympanic membrane but no pus, the doctor will examine whether tympanic membrane repair surgery is possible. It would be best if the eardrum could be repaired. It not only improves hearing, but also re-establishes a barrier to prevent recurring otitis media and avoid ototoxic damage caused by long-term use of ear drops.

Tympanic membrane perforation caused by trauma: After the tympanic membrane ruptures, the patient suddenly feels ear pain, immediate hearing loss accompanied by tinnitus, a small amount of bleeding in the external auditory canal and a feeling of stuffiness in the ear. Small perforations caused by trauma can be observed for one or two months and may heal on their own. If the perforation is large due to trauma, surgical repair is required. For perforations in the eardrum caused by suppurative otitis media, the pus in the middle ear can be sucked out for small perforations, and then medication can be used for treatment. If there is a large perforation, surgical repair is required.

As long as there is no secondary infection and the hole area is not too large, the eardrum perforation caused by trauma will usually heal on its own in about a month without any additional treatment.

Patients with tympanic membrane perforation should go to the ENT department of the hospital to check the location, range and cause of the tympanic membrane perforation. If necessary, they should undergo audiometry and bilateral mastoid photos. If there is ulcer-type or cholesteatoma-type otitis media, surgery should be performed as soon as possible to remove the lesion and prevent complications.

There are two methods of repairing the eardrum: surgery and cauterization. The surgical method is to make an incision in the ear or behind the ear, and transplant the autologous tissue into the eardrum. This method is suitable for patients with large perforations in the eardrum or ossicular defects, interruptions or early cholesteatoma.