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What bad habits in life are easy to hurt ears?

What bad habits in life are easy to hurt the ears? Deafness will give people a silent state forever. It is of great significance to pay attention to ear health care and correct bad habits in order to prevent ear diseases and maintain normal hearing.

Here are 10 common bad habits:

1. Ear gouging: as the saying goes, "if you don't dig your ears, you won't be deaf." there is a certain truth. Because it may cause damage to the wall of the ear canal, serious damage to the middle and inner ear, resulting in deafness.

2. Foreign body into the ear canal: parents should educate children not to put beans, beads and nuts into the ear canal. When mosquitoes and other small insects fly into or climb into the ears, do not take them out directly with instruments, but use alcohol or oil drops into the ears to quickly submerge or kill them before taking them out.

3. Squeeze your nose and blow hard: improper blowing may blow your nose into your middle ear. The correct way is to press one side of the nostril with your fingers, and then blow the other side.

4. Drug abuse: pay attention to ototoxicity before medication.

5. Washing or ear drops after traumatic perforation of tympanic membrane: the correct method is to block the external auditory meatus with sterile cotton ball to prevent the invasion of foreign bacteria.

6. Incorrect diving posture: leading to changes in air pressure and perforation of tympanic membrane.

7. When infants drink milk: their head position is too low, or when they are crying, the secretion and milk are easy to enter the middle ear through the eustachian tube, leading to infection.

8. Flying: in diving or hyperbaric oxygen chamber treatment, do not pay attention to swallowing, leading to the occurrence of barotrauma otitis media.

9. Often in the noise environment: and without sound proof earplugs or earmuffs, prone to noise induced deafness. Listening to Walkman (such as MP3, etc.) with too much volume and too long duration can also lead to hearing loss.

10. Unreasonable diet: smoking and drinking, excessive anxiety and fatigue, bad mood, not taking part in physical exercise, not actively preventing cardiovascular disease, will accelerate the occurrence of senile deafness.

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