Swimming and moisty ears:

Swimmer’s Ear
What is it?

Swimmer’s Ear is an infection in the ear canal when bacteria or fungi inhabits the outer area of your ear.

● It is contracted when the outer ear canal moistens allowing growth of bacteria in your ear canal.
● It usually happens when the protective area of the outer area which is the cerarun and earwax
protecting the ear is damaged
● Known as otitis externa is when bacteria invades the outer ear canal and can become more severe
when allowed to manifest.
Symptoms and Risk factors

Mild Symptoms: Itching in the ear canal, little redness in outer ear, and discomfort in the ear.

Moderate Duration: More pain, More redness in the ear, pus could come from the ear, and decreased
hearing.

Advanced Duration: Severe pain, complete blocking of the ear canal, Fever, or swelling of your lymph nodes
in your throat.

Risks factors: Swimming, using cotton swabs too aggressively to damage cererun, using hearing aids, and or
having allergies.
Complications

● Temporary loss of hearing/ muffled.

● Long term infections(chronic otitis externa): Rare strain of bacteria which makes the infections last
much longer.
● Cartilage and Bone Damage: Infection can spread to bones and cartilage around the bone when the
bacteria spreads down ear.
● Wider spread infections: It can spread to different bones around the body when it gets really
advanced and strained
How to prevent it

● Keeping the out ear dry: Dry out your ears after swimming, but be gentle with whatever used to dry it
and be careful with anything that could damage the cererun
● You should be careful to note that the place you are swimming at doesn’t seem contaminated by
bacteria.
● Don’t clean your ears with hairpin or cotton swabs because it could push the foreign object in your
ear, farther inside.
● Use ear drops if you ever suspect that you are getting swimmer’s ear or use a drying ear serum found
on credible sites to keep your ears dry and not allow bacteria to grow in it.
Swimmer’s Hearing
The muffled hearing is made by the eardrum either swelling making the
wavelengths that you can emit compressed sound with your voice and the
rarefaction of the sounds emitted isn’t rearefacted or, made into sound,to
the same crest-trough area making the decibel amount that you can hear
less because of the swelling and the ability to make the sound waves
emitted into rarefactions making it a wavelength therefore making the
specific thing said, sound muffled. This type of swimmer’s ear only
develops at moderate and above stages because that swelling makes the
eardrum which transfers the sound into wavelengths to go to the cochlea
which processes the cound, harder making it muffled and harder to hear.
It would be easier to see this in a transversal graph of the sound being
heard because it would show the difference in size of wavelengths
because the crest top part of wavelengths and the trough bottom of
wavelengths would vary.