Recently, an older woman found a green mold growing in her right ear due to constant pus in her right ear, hearing loss and sometimes tinnitus, and she went to an otolaryngologist. The doctor found the green mold in her right ear. The doctor questioned her and found that she had a history of diabetes for more than 10 years. What kind of people are prone to ear mold? Ear mold is medically known as external ear canal mold, this disease is mostly seen in patients with diabetes, tuberculosis and other chronic diseases, mostly in patients with chronic otitis media with long-term pus, but also in patients with foot disease, female fungal vaginitis patients. What are the causes of mold in human ears? Let’s say the home is damp, dark and unventilated place easy to mold, there is a long-term liquid in the ear will also grow mold. How to treat mold in the external ear canal? Try to keep the external ear canal dry, you can use boric acid ear drops; if there is a bacterial infection, you can use antibiotic treatment, but also some symptomatic treatment drugs, the most critical is to apply antifungal drugs such as clotrimazole ointment on the patient’s external ear canal and eardrum. It is usually applied 1-2 times a week for 2 months. Prognosis: External ear canal mycobacteria can easily recur, in layman’s terms, external ear canal mycobacteria are foot fungus in the external ear canal, so it is not difficult to understand that external ear canal mycobacteria are prone to recurrence. So the key to treatment is to keep the external ear canal dry, on the other hand, local continuous application of antifungal drugs (more than 2 months, to the Department of Otolaryngology to apply drugs, many parts of the external ear canal patients themselves and their families do not apply in place).