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What Causes Pain In Ear And Loss Of Hearing?
Accidentally, a tiny cockroach entered-deeply inside my ear, so, I used cotton buds to remove it with force,However, I succeeded to remove this stupid insect out of my ear, but after a couple of an hours, I 've noticed I lost my hearing..and I feel the pain inside. What happen to my ear Doctor ? Why I cannot hear now ? I'm taking antibiotic now due to my fear of infection,..please, help me, I need your advice how to treat it now.
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Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Hi, You have removed the insect foreign body successfully but with the cost of damaging your ear drum or its surrounding it seems. At least now its the time to visit ENT doctor before you do some self medication because ear drum perforation has to be dealt by the specialist differently. There may be some remnants too. take care.
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