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Narrow External Auditory Canal

This one is frequent in swimmers, and especially those who have been training since childhood.

Growth of cartilage is stimulated by inflammation, and so much more during growing age.

Bathing otitis is an entity little known to other practitioners than HNO-specialists.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the germ most frequently involved.

In other parts of the body this one is a most feared infection!

It is frequently multi-resistant to antibiotics.

Manipulating ear-tips in the ear canal when this bacterium is present ends not infrequently with fatality.

Infection spreads to the temporal bone and then to the brain.

Bathing otitis is treated with antibiotic drops not absorbed through the lining of the ear canal, Polymyxin or some kind of Aminoside with a corticoid.

This disorder occurs less frequently in salty water, but once the germ is present in the ear, it can stay there dormant for years with a spurt at smallest favoring condition.

Though, prevention is easy, if you give it a thought!

It is sufficient to dry thoroughly the external auditory canal after each bath or swimming session.

This can be done with the towel first, then with fine absorbent paper handkerchiefs, and  at last with the hair dryer, orienting the air jet directly into the ear canal.

Such a canal becomes easily plugged with cerumen.

This especially if you do not tolerate sun baths.

Last ones stimulate skin metabolism and growing of the covering of the external auditory canal, which is moving outwards, emptying cerumen.