The middle-aged and elderly may often encounter ear diseases in their daily lives, such as tinnitus, deafness, pus in the ear canal, itchy ear canal, etc. Sometimes, going to the hospital does not achieve satisfactory treatment results. Let’s take a brief look at some of the common ear diseases and characteristics of middle-aged and elderly people. The symptoms of otitis media vary from one type of otitis media to another, and often include itching, pain, pus overflow, ear congestion, hearing loss, or only one or two of these symptoms, which sometimes persist; sensorineural deafness is more common in the elderly, often showing slow hearing loss with age, with or without tinnitus, especially when tinnitus occurs, which often disturbs the quality of sleep and rest. Sudden onset of deafness, often with a history of sudden onset of hearing loss or even total deafness, may be accompanied by vertigo and vomiting symptoms, elderly patients are easily confused with stroke, brain CT and other tests can help the differential diagnosis, untimely treatment may lead to permanent hearing loss; otitis, ear eczema and other dermatitis often appear itchy ear canal, digging the ear canal can aggravate, or even ear swelling, pain, overflow and other phenomena, often Ear tumors have no obvious symptoms in the early stage, or only symptoms such as tinnitus, otitis, otitis media, etc. In the middle and late stages, there may be intermittent blood and pus overflowing from the ear canal, ear swelling and pain, headache, facial paralysis, vertigo and other symptoms. Let’s briefly discuss how to deal with some of these symptoms after they occur. When you are a patient with recurrent pus overflow for several years and decades, if you do not have obvious systemic diseases and are capable of general anesthesia surgery, surgery is the better choice to completely cure the pus, not only to stop the flow of pus and improve the quality of life, but also to prevent facial palsy, intracranial complications, and to improve hearing. The treatment can be done by paying attention to ear care. For those who are diagnosed with senile deafness and tinnitus, they can relax and accept some nerve-nourishing and vasodilating medication to avoid further aggravation of sleep. For patients with monaural sudden deafness and tinnitus, it is necessary to consult a doctor in time so as not to delay the treatment and lose the chance to cure the disease, which is sometimes limited and the effect of treatment is obviously reduced after a certain period. In addition to ear examination, patients with intermittent vertigo should also consider the possibility of intracranial tumors, especially in the pontocerebellar angle. The examination of the vestibular function of the ear can be helpful in the differential diagnosis. For patients with otalgia, it depends on the nature of the pain. If there is no previous history of otitis media and there is a cold and nasal congestion in the short term, the otalgia and stuffy ears are usually symptoms of catarrhal otitis media, and anti-inflammatory and symptomatic treatment can improve more quickly. Patients with ear pain, blood pus and facial palsy should also be alert to the possibility of ear tumors, and malignant squamous carcinoma of the ear is more common in elderly patients. The treatment can mostly relieve gradually. Ear pain and swelling without a history of otitis media, and pressure pain in the temporomandibular joint due to teeth clenching are mostly due to temporomandibular joint syndrome, which can be gradually relieved by alternate chewing and symptomatic treatment. Patients with diabetes mellitus have a high incidence of this disease. After briefly understanding the characteristics of some ear diseases mentioned above, let’s talk about some health care issues of ear diseases. For the frequently encountered tinnitus problem, with or without hearing loss, in addition to hospital consultation and medication, we must be mentally relaxed and focus on other happy things in order to avoid aggravating the mental burden and affecting sleep and rest, which in turn aggravates the disease. In addition, middle-aged and elderly patients with tinnitus should eat more fresh vegetables and less greasy and fried food, and they can take some herbal supplements in autumn and winter according to the advice of herbalists. For patients with otitis media, in addition to washing the ear with hydrogen peroxide during the period of overflowing pus and using antibiotic drops or ear baths, you must pay attention to preventing water from entering the ear in general, as bathing and swimming with water in the ear can easily cause otitis media attacks. In addition, when you have a stuffy nose, you should use some nasal drops early to relieve nasal congestion and try to reduce the amount of aspiration. If you have ear canal dermatitis, eczema or fungal infections, you should not dig repeatedly to prevent them from getting worse. Do not go to a barber store to clean the ear canal, as this is a common infectious disease, such as papilloma, which has a tendency to become cancerous. Middle-aged and elderly people should not wear headphones often to listen to music or other programs to prevent noise hearing damage, and especially not to wear headphones into dreamland while sleeping. Of course, you should guard against ear trauma to avoid tympanic membrane perforation and hearing damage, which should be promptly treated and waterproofed, usually after three months, depending on the growth of the tympanic membrane to decide whether to operate. The following is to talk about the fitting and maintenance of the headset, middle-aged and elderly patients with moderate to severe hearing impairment affecting normal language communication can consider wearing hearing aids, but patients with pus flowing from the ear canal should hold off on wearing them to prevent pus from entering the headset and causing damage to the body. The hearing aid should be checked by an otolaryngologist and matched by a professional hearing aid technician according to the shape of the ear canal. The development of hearing aids is changing rapidly, and higher quality hearing aids are also more expensive. Patients who have the conditions to wear binaural hearing aids may have a better sense of balance and more accurate sound source positioning, and the volume of the headphones need not be adjusted too much. The following points can be noted for the maintenance of the headset: keep it dry, dry it with a soft cloth when it is stained with sweat, do not wear hearing aids when washing your hair, taking a bath or swimming; take out the battery when it is not used for a long time to prevent corrosion, clean up the battery when it is found to be leaking at night, do not scrub the headset with acid or alkaline water, etc.; prevent severe shocks from damaging the components of the headset, such as drops and falls, and put it in a safe place at regular intervals. Skim cotton ball or small brush to clean up the surface of the headset and ear mold pipe to prevent clogging, generally 1 to 2 times a week, of course, there are special circumstances such as continuous whistling, etc. should be promptly repaired or find the cause.