In the hot summer, God’s land into the barbecue mode, we walk in the street accidentally on the outside burnt. At this time, the swimming pool is undoubtedly one of the best places to go. However, there are pros and cons to everything, and with that comes ear diseases caused by swimming, most commonly otitis media and otitis externa. Swimming causes otitis externa often because the external ear canal is not properly sanitized and too much dirt has accumulated. Cerumen impaction in the external ear canal, commonly known as earwax, is shelled up after exposure to water, leading to painful inflammation. Therefore, it is best to clean your ear canals and get rid of the earwax before swimming. However, care should be taken when cleaning the external ear canal to avoid blindly going inside and pulling it out hard, and it is best to go to the hospital and let the doctor clean it under direct vision. If the external ear canal is bruised during the cleaning process, you must stop swimming to avoid infection. Otitis media caused by swimming is a more serious disease. The reason for this is that it is easy to choke on water while swimming. Especially beginners, due to the eagerness or technical mastery is not enough, while learning to choke. Once choked, sewage can enter the middle ear cavity through the naso-nasopharyngeal-epidural canal, and the bacteria in the water will spread to the mucous membrane of the middle ear cavity along the Eustachian tube, resulting in otitis media. Especially for children, more susceptible to otitis media, their Eustachian tube is short, flat, thick, unlike the adult Eustachian tube is long and has a natural 45 ° angle can be choked into the water to play a certain role in the obstruction, so the child choked, sewage is easy to enter the Eustachian tube caused by retrograde infection. Early symptoms of otitis media mainly include hearing loss and pain in the ear. Initially will feel hearing loss, a few days after the ear pain, often accompanied by a runny nose, sneezing, etc., if you do not pay attention to timely treatment, did not control the otitis media will become middle ear mastoiditis, serious and then develop into encephalitis, the most serious consequences may be fatal. If you feel hearing loss after swimming, pain in the ear, you should go to the hospital in time. Especially if you have sinusitis, if these situations occur, you should consult the doctor in time. But we do not need to be nervous, as long as we pay attention to the following points, you can prevent otitis media, and enjoy the fun of playing in the water: 1, swim as much as possible not to do big action swimming (such as diving), to avoid choking; 2, grasp the correct method of swimming: swimming to master the mouth inhalation, with the nose out of the air the basic method, to prevent choking. There is otitis media or otitis media healed soon, should not swim. When the respiratory system has an acute infection, the resistance of the Eustachian tube is reduced, also temporarily do not swim. 3, the correct way to blow your nose is: after choking on water, hold down one nostril and gently blow the water out (don’t pinch both nostrils at the same time and blow hard), or suck it back into your mouth and then spit it out. 4, suffering from upper respiratory tract infections, nasal lesions (such as sinusitis), chronic otitis media, tympanic membrane perforation is flowing pus patients should not swim for the time being. 5.Swimming can be used to swim special ear plugs to prevent the entry of water. 6, swimming should be kept dry in the ear, the shore can be tilted to pull the ear, one-legged jump, do not pull out privately.