Common cold can cause ear infection

Hello fellas! It's me again and I'm really sorry for another absent day yesterday. I really couldn't bare the excruciating pain of my ears.

This was a draft from week ago that I wasn't able to finished and today marks the first week that I wasn't able to write any article here due to a sickness that started from just a common cold.

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Why do I suffer such pain?

Let me share the story why. It's been week since I am suffering my common cold and I blow my nose everytime. Which is very very wrong and please never blow your nose very hard and covering the other side when you have cold. You might have the same problem with mine.

According to www.accuratehearingsystems.com the nose, ear, and mouth are connected and a forceful nose-blow can cause a rapid change in pressure behind the eardrum. This change in pressure can cause pain in your ear, a longer-lasting earache, or a ruptured eardrum.

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What's the problem?

I got ear infection or maybe worse a ruptured eardrum. Last week Friday, which is week from now, I suffured earache and didn't have any sleep the whole night. The pain was unbearable. It was coming from the inside of my ear. It hurt a lot and it give stinging sounds like high notes. A sound whenever a sudden bell was hit hardly, if you get what I mean, that is. At first it's just my right ear and few hours later down to dawn my left ear hurt as well. I don't know what to do and I don't want to wake up anybody in the house just to share my pain with them of course not. So what I did, I search for any information on what to do during an earache or ear infection. Since it is still dawn, I only give what is currently available at that moment.

Warm compress

I put some hot water in the water bottle and covered it with cloth run through the back of my ear for few minute. It makes me relax and gave me soothing feeling but it did not remove the pain it did ease the pain but in a very short amount of time.

Ibuprofen

It is suggested for treating the pain but there is no available ibuprofen in the medicine cabinet. So I drink whatever available there and it happened that we still have neozep. Since the pain in my ear cause by my cold, neozep could still be capable of giving relief.

The warm compress doesn't ease the pain but the medicine did. It was around 4:00 in the morning when I finally give myself a rest. I was too exhausted at that moment being restless for many hours and enduring the pain.

I believe if it isn't an ear infection it could probably a ruptured ear drum since it's been vulnerable by the time I loss my hearing due to swimming as well and my hearing just get back last February. Based on readings our ear have capacity to heal on its own but it takes some time. In worse case it could give lifetime hear loss or lead to surgery. Therefore we should take care our ears. Let's not think that it's okay to do things when we feel like it like blowing out nose during cold as hard as we like and not thinking that we put so much pressure to our ears because it could lead to big problems like mine.

Here are some simple steps to help prevent damaging your eardrums by correctly clearing your nasal passages when needed:

1.Keep both nostrils open when blowing your nose.

2.Blow gently into a tissue through both nostrils.

3.You can partially close one nostril if you’re careful not to close it all the way, but this is not recommended.

4.Wipe any remaining mucous from your nose, dispose of tissue, and wash your hands.

If you blew your nose too hard already and heard a pop followed by pain, you may have damaged your eardrum and should consult a hearing care provider.

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That would be all. Thanks for reading. My heartfelt apology for not writing. I have so much more going on than a common cold right now that is involved with health. I hope you understand. I will tell you more tomorrow. Byeeee 😘

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