Water trapped in ear
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As the title, I have water trapped in my ear.
I do a fair bit of kayaking and after my session last week I realized there was some trapped in there. Nothing I have done since then has sorted it out, It's been a full 7 days now. Getting pretty annoying!
I try to keep my ears clean with the cleaning sprays etc but I'm assuming they are not working as well as I'd like! Will syringing my ears help my problem? I'd expect it to remove whatever blockage there is?
Any advice? I'm deaf in one ear at the moment pretty much!
Cheers.
I do a fair bit of kayaking and after my session last week I realized there was some trapped in there. Nothing I have done since then has sorted it out, It's been a full 7 days now. Getting pretty annoying!
I try to keep my ears clean with the cleaning sprays etc but I'm assuming they are not working as well as I'd like! Will syringing my ears help my problem? I'd expect it to remove whatever blockage there is?
Any advice? I'm deaf in one ear at the moment pretty much!
Cheers.
Make an appointment to see your practice nurse at the GP surgery.
Syringing may help, but my experience of having this done is that they use water to do the syringing, so seems like they will just add more water.
Before going my GP's surgery like me to put warm olive oil in the ear for seven days to soften the wax and make syringing easier and less painful. May be worth doing this before visiting, then you can say you did this.
Syringing may help, but my experience of having this done is that they use water to do the syringing, so seems like they will just add more water.
Before going my GP's surgery like me to put warm olive oil in the ear for seven days to soften the wax and make syringing easier and less painful. May be worth doing this before visiting, then you can say you did this.
I get this a lot from lake swimming. I found the most effective was tilting the head over with the watery ear down and using my little finger to waggle and raise/lower the pressure in the ear. Combined with tilting the head about a bit I've found this tends to release most of it with a bit of patience.
There should be no pain generated from the pressure change mind - just enough to get things moving.
Combo this up with repeated ear popping (like on a plane - that weird back of throat swallow) and pinching your nose and pushing some extra air into the sinuses.
Oh, and if you can, sleep with that ear down.
Good luck.
There should be no pain generated from the pressure change mind - just enough to get things moving.
Combo this up with repeated ear popping (like on a plane - that weird back of throat swallow) and pinching your nose and pushing some extra air into the sinuses.
Oh, and if you can, sleep with that ear down.
Good luck.
I regularly get water trapped in my ears and in the past this would invariably lead to an ear infection. I've started using some ear drops specifically for the purpose of removing trapped water:
Swim Ear Drops
It breaks the surface tension or something or other and allows the water to dribble out. Quite well known in the States but I've never seen it over here.
Swim Ear Drops
It breaks the surface tension or something or other and allows the water to dribble out. Quite well known in the States but I've never seen it over here.
Smitters said:
I get this a lot from lake swimming. I found the most effective was tilting the head over with the watery ear down and using my little finger to waggle and raise/lower the pressure in the ear. Combined with tilting the head about a bit I've found this tends to release most of it with a bit of patience.
There should be no pain generated from the pressure change mind - just enough to get things moving.
Combo this up with repeated ear popping (like on a plane - that weird back of throat swallow) and pinching your nose and pushing some extra air into the sinuses.
Oh, and if you can, sleep with that ear down.
Good luck.
I do the waggling finger thing, Helps sometimes to relieve the pressure but no discharge sadly. And 'popping my ears' is something I have never been able to do on a plane myself. Which tends to end in me getting a massive pressure buildup in my sinuses. I'm wondering whether the two are linked, I should be able to pop my ears, but I can't so maybe there is something stopping the pressure from being released that is also trapping water...There should be no pain generated from the pressure change mind - just enough to get things moving.
Combo this up with repeated ear popping (like on a plane - that weird back of throat swallow) and pinching your nose and pushing some extra air into the sinuses.
Oh, and if you can, sleep with that ear down.
Good luck.
Thanks for all the replies though! Will try that olive oil tactic and see if I can get those drops!
stefd said:
I regularly get water trapped in my ears and in the past this would invariably lead to an ear infection. I've started using some ear drops specifically for the purpose of removing trapped water:
Swim Ear Drops
It breaks the surface tension or something or other and allows the water to dribble out. Quite well known in the States but I've never seen it over here.
Didn't know you could get stuff like this! Having developed a tendency for getting water trapped which is both annoying and tends to put me off swimming, I think I might invest in a little trial.... Swim Ear Drops
It breaks the surface tension or something or other and allows the water to dribble out. Quite well known in the States but I've never seen it over here.
It's odd, I suffer from this. We had last weekend at a spa and spent a lot of time in the pool, and now I have the obligatory low level ear infection, yet last year had two weeks of snorkelling nearly every day in the Maldives with no problems at all. Likewise, I used to get it all the time from the local municipal swimming pool, to the extent that I ended up wearing ear plugs for swimming, but since joining the local gym and using their pool it's not been a problem and I've dispensed with the ear plugs.
I'm not sure whether the issue is cleanliness of the water or perhaps the opposite with too much chlorine causing irritation and kicking it off.
I'm not sure whether the issue is cleanliness of the water or perhaps the opposite with too much chlorine causing irritation and kicking it off.
LilPeteMordino said:
I do the waggling finger thing, Helps sometimes to relieve the pressure but no discharge sadly.
It can take a while to get anything at all - like 15-20 minutes. It's about moving the water around. Think of it like one of those annoying plastic cracker games where you try and move the little silver balls about until they're in the right holes.
otolith said:
I'm not sure whether the issue is cleanliness of the water or perhaps the opposite with too much chlorine causing irritation and kicking it off.
Invariably it will be exactly the opposite with the chlorine. Similarly it is too little rather than too much chlorine that causes the eyes to sting when in the pool. Basically too little chlorine makes the water too acidic.Gassing Station | Health Matters | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff