how to know if you have a blocked ear?
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['Earache.', 'Feeling of fullness in the affected ear.', 'Ringing or noises in the ear (tinnitus)', 'Decreased hearing in the affected ear.', 'Dizziness.', 'Cough.']
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Symptoms of Eustachian tube dysfunction Muffled hearing or hearing loss. Your ears may feel blocked or 'full of water' A clicking, popping or tickling sensation in your ears. Ringing in your ears, known as tinnitus.
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Outer Ear Infections The skin inside the ear canal swells and the ear becomes tender, feeling blocked. Unfortunately, the common tendency to attempt cleaning the ear with cotton swabs (Q-tips) or irrigating it with solutions such as hydrogen peroxide, usually aggravates the condition.
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Symptoms of swimmer's ear A full or clogged feeling in the ear that may cause sound to be muffled is often the first telltale sign of swimmer's ear. If untreated at that point, what follows is intense pain, swelling and sometimes discharge.
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Tympanostomy tubes can become blocked by wax, blood, discharge from otorrhea, or even a foreign body. Some blockages can be opened with topical medications or by physically cleaning out the wax, blood, or discharge. Granulation tissue must be treated with steroid-containing medication.
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['Sit on bed so that if you lie down, your head hangs slightly over the end of the bed.', 'Turn head to the right and lie back quickly.', 'Wait 1 minute.', 'If you feel dizzy, then the right ear is your affected ear.']
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['Hearing loss.', 'Earache.', 'Sense of ear fullness.', 'Itching in the ear.', 'Dizziness.', 'Ringing in the ears.', 'Cough.']
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A common symptom is the sensation of mucus at the back of the nose or throat, which often causes people to continually clear their throat. In some cases, it can cause difficulty swallowing. The ears also drain into the back of the nose via the Eustachian tubes, so occasionally LPR can cause problems with blocked ears.
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['Redness.', 'Swelling.', 'Pain.', 'Pus or other fluid discharge (in severe cases)', 'Fever (in severe cases)', 'Deformation of the ear structure (in severe cases)']
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Earwax buildup Sometimes, however, it can build up and become impacted in one or both ears. An earwax blockage can be minor, but a severe buildup can lead to muffled hearing. Other symptoms of an earwax buildup include an earache, extreme pressure, and ringing in the ear.
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['Ear pain.', 'Diminished hearing.', 'Tinnitus.', 'Sensations of ear fullness.']
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['Head shaking or head tilting.', 'Ear odor.', 'Vigorous scratching.', 'Lack of balance.', 'Unusual back-and-forth eye movements.', 'Redness of the ear canal.', 'Swelling of the outer portion of the ear.', 'Brown, yellow, or bloody discharge.']
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['vertigo.', 'minor hearing loss.', 'flu-like symptoms.', 'ringing in the ears.', 'blurred or double vision.', 'ear pain.']
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When it's blocked, it's no longer able to equalize pressure in the ear and maintain balance in your body. These middle-ear disturbances can cause symptoms of dizziness in people with allergies, colds, and sinus infections.
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In older children and adults, symptoms include earache, hearing problems, fullness or pressure in the ear, fever, drainage from the ear, dizziness and loss of balance, and nausea or vomiting. Symptoms without pain or fever can also mean that there's fluid in the ear and should be looked into.
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After a few days of a stuffy or runny nose, the lining of your middle ear is irritated. This can block the Eustachian tube, which can feel like popping in the ears, fullness or congestion.
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['Sit on bed so that if you lie down, your head hangs slightly over the end of the bed.', 'Turn head to the right and lie back quickly.', 'Wait 1 minute.', 'If you feel dizzy, then the right ear is your affected ear.', 'If no dizziness occurs, sit up.', 'Wait 1 minute.']