Eardrum

that tympanoplasty was the perfect intimidating name for such an intimidating procedure. Essentially, the ear is cut halfway off of the body in order to access the inner ear. From there, whatever remains of the eardrum is cut away, the inner ear is filled with gelatin packing, a new eardrum is grafted on, the outer ear is filled with cotton packing, and finally the ear is stitched back on. The next morning, I woke up feeling weak and exhausted. It was 6:00 am on July 11, 2016; I was due at the…

The three basic types are conductive hearing, sensorineural hearing, and mixed hearing loss. Each of these losses has different causes. Conductive hearing loss happens when sound does is not conducted properly through the outer ear passages to the eardrum and through the ossicles in the middle ear. The resulting effect is a reduced sound level or inability to record faint sounds. Medical or surgical…

them my pain was a 100, they told my parents it was actually probably a 2. One day, though, they looked in my ears, and realized I didn’t have any eardrums left, in either of my ears. They spent the rest of that appointment apologizing to my parents and I for not believing us. The next month, I had 8 hour surgery to artificially rebuild my eardrums with scar tissue. After I recovered from the surgery, the doctors expected me to have hearing…

Tinnitus is the ringing in the ear, which is an unwanted sound that one can hear. The sounds can be constant or comes and goes, soft or loud, and in one ear or both. There are three ways to distinguish the symptoms of the patient’s tinnitus sound: tonal tinnitus, pulsatile tinnitus, and musical tinnitus. Tonal is a near continuous sound that are affiliated with subjective tinnitus, which is just the normal ringing sound, pulsatile is pulsing sound that one hears from their heartbeat and for some…

Middle ear infection Overview: In typical ear infection, the middle ear (located behind the eardrum) gets inflamed and fills with fluid, a condition called otitis media. Most ear infections, short-term, or acute, usually resolves without any intervention, but if you keep popping up are classified as recurrent infections. Recurrent ear infections can lead to a buildup of fluid in the middle ear that tends not to be reabsorbed. In this case we speak of ear infection in the long term or chronic.…

then go on to channel the energy through into the ear canal. At the end of this ear canal is the eardrum. When the energy, also known as sound waves, hit the eardrum, they make it vibrate. The hammer, anvil and stapes in your skull, notice those vibrations and move them on towards the cochlea, a snail-shaped structure houses fluid and tiny hairs called cilia. The vibrations passed on from the eardrum…

The common cold, diaper rash, diarrhea, earaches, and stomach aches often effect young children and infants. All have been known to have very simple causes that if not treated properly can cause complications; with the proper management, these infectious diseases can be eradicated and prevented from future occurrences. Over 200 viruses can cause the common cold. The most common viruses are rhinovirus, coronavirus, and respiratory syncytial virus. Rhinovirus, which causes up to forty percent of…

The Basics of Hearing Loss Hearing loss is a common health condition that affects more than 50 million Americans in the United States. Despite the fact that some of us have ears and have the ability to hear, many do not have a true understanding of the ear and how they work. To truly understand hearing and hearing loss, it helps to know the basics. Having a basic understanding about the function of the ears can help you better collaborate with your physician, and can lead to better hearing…

to loud and becomes harmful to the human ear. How can noise damage our hearing? To understand how NIHL happens, we need to understand how it is that we hear. First, sound waves enter our outer ear then travel through the ear canal into the eardrum. The eardrum vibrates from the incoming sound waves and sends these vibrations to the malleus, incus, and stapes (three tiny bones in the middle ear). Once in the middle ear the vibrations are sent to the cochlea of the inner ear, which is filled…

When there are sound wave get into the ear, the sound wave then will pass through the canal to the eardrum. At the eardrum, the sound wave are mechanically transmitted to the inner ear and amplified. In the inner ear there will be a cochlear where this cochlear consist of three different canals. At the middle canal of the cochlear is the organ of hearing where…