What to do if an insect crawls into your ear

If an insect has got into your ear, you need to evaluate the situation, choose the right way to solve the problem. A small pest will not creep further than the eardrum, it will not get to the brain, but its unsuccessful attempts to get out cause discomfort, pain, and deterioration of well-being.

Symptoms

You can notice the presence of a living creature in the ear by sensations. The pest will do its best to get out. Scratching of the legs, movement, movement cause discomfort, pain, tinnitus. In most cases, a person begins to take action almost immediately. If an insect gets into the ear of a small child, complications develop.

Important!

A dead bug or bug in the auricle is much more difficult to detect. Initially, there are no vivid symptoms, but after a few days there is pain, mucus, and blood damage to the eardrum. In this case, independent actions are prohibited, you should immediately seek help from specialists.

First aid

Sometimes removing an insect from the ear can be very simple, if not panic. Caught in the trap, the pest will try to get out, you need to help him with this. Tilt your head down from the side of the affected ear, stand quietly for several minutes. As soon as the bug or insect approaches the "exit", carefully remove it with your finger or tweezers.

On a note!

If the insect cannot be removed in this way, you need to take a flashlight. Tilt your head slightly, direct the rays of light on the auricle. The wrecker crawls into bright lighting, gets out independently. If it was not possible to get the insect out of the ear, they proceed to cardinal methods.

Pest removal methods

There are several proven methods:

• A syringe or syringe, a rubber bulb are filled with water. Tilt your head down with a damaged ear, pour water. In this way, you can kill the insect, wash from the auricle. Water should be warm.
• If an insect crawls into your ear, any vegetable oil will help get rid of it. Lightly warm, 5-10 drops are dripped into the affected auricle. After a minute, they bend their heads, lay down with a sick ear. Within 20 minutes, the oil spills out, with it an insect.

In most cases, these methods help solve the problem. If the insect does not completely fall out, it will approach the edge. From there it can be easily reached with tweezers.

What to do then

If an insect flies into your ear, you can get rid of it, you need to examine the auricle, disinfect it so that the infection does not get. Use boric alcohol, ammonia, the usual medical. You can use ear drops - Otipaks, Oftamirin, etc.

Be sure to inspect the insect that has fallen from the auricle. If as a result of the "operation" there is a part left inside, you need to see a specialist. Pest residues can come out along with natural secretions, but there is a chance of infection, inflammation.

Complications

If the bug has been in the ear for too long, the eardrum is damaged, and inflammation begins. Mucus with blood flows from the auricle. There is severe, acute pain, dizziness, weakness, and an increase in body temperature is observed. In severe cases, nausea, vomiting appears.Independent actions are contraindicated, a specialist examination is required, qualified therapy.

On a note!

Most often, children suffer from insects in the ear. An older child will begin to complain of movement in the auricle, the baby will rub the ear, cry. It is necessary to examine the affected organ with a flashlight, determine the depth of penetration of the pest, select the appropriate extraction method.