What’s wrong with wearing headphones for a long time and getting a pain inside your ear?

Headphones worn for a long time inside the ear pain may be caused by local compression, may also be the symptoms of certain diseases, such as inflammation of the external auditory canal, inner ear injury.
1. Wearing headphones will squeeze the skin of the external auditory canal or the cartilage of the external auditory canal, which often causes pain inside the ear after a long time, and the pain and discomfort will get better after removing the headphones, which is a physiological phenomenon and generally does not require special treatment.
2. Otitis externa or boils: Wearing headphones for a long time will repeatedly rub and stimulate the skin of the external auditory canal, leading to local bacterial infection of the skin and causing otitis externa or boils, which will cause pain inside the ear, sometimes accompanied by yellowish watery secretion from the ear.
3. If you have otitis media, headphones are louder and last longer, stimulating the tympanic membrane and damaging the inner ear hair cells, causing ear pain and discomfort, sometimes accompanied by hearing loss, tinnitus and so on.
In summary, headphones worn for a long time inside the ear pain, remove the headphones did not relieve soon, it is recommended to consult a doctor in a timely manner to identify the causes, under the guidance of a professional doctor.