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Homoeopathic treatment for Eardrum rupture/perforated eardrum

An eardrum rupture is a small hole or tear in eardrum, or tympanic membrane. The tympanic membrane is a thin tissue that divides  middle ear and outer ear canal.

This membrane vibrates when sound waves enter ear. The vibration continues through the bones of the middle ear. Because this vibration allows to hear, hearing can suffer if  eardrum is damaged.

A ruptured eardrum is also called a perforated eardrum. 

Causes 

Infection

Ear infections are a common cause of eardrum rupture, especially in children. During an ear infection, fluids accumulate behind the eardrum. The pressure from the fluid buildup can cause the tympanic membrane to break or rupture.

Pressure changes

Other activities can cause pressure changes in the ear and lead to a perforated eardrum. This is known as barotrauma, and it mainly occurs when the pressure outside the ear is drastically different from the pressure inside the ear. Activities that can cause barotrauma include:

  • scuba diving
  • flying in an airplane
  • driving at high altitudes
  • shock waves
  • direct, forceful impact to the ear

Injury or trauma

Injuries can also rupture your eardrum. Any trauma to the ear or side of the head can cause a rupture. The following have been known to cause eardrum ruptures:

  • getting hit in the ear
  • sustaining an injury during sports
  • falling on your ear
  • car accidents

Symptoms 

Pain is the main symptom of eardrum rupture. For some, the pain may be severe. It can remain steady throughout the day, or it can increase or decrease in intensity.

Usually the ear begins to drain once pain goes away.  the eardrum is ruptured. Watery, bloody, or pus-filled fluids may drain from the affected ear. A rupture that results from a middle ear infection usually causes bleeding. These ear infections are more likely to happen in young children, people with colds or the flu, or in areas with poor air quality.

 

HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT

Belladonna

Intense bouts of earache that come and go very suddenly, with heat and inflammation, suggest a need for this remedy. Pain can be pounding or throbbing, and may be worse from jarring. The person usually has a fever, a flushed red face, eyes that are sensitive to light, and skin that is hot to touch. The right ear is most often affected. A child needing Belladonna may feel drowsy with the fever, or be restless and have nightmares.

Chamomilla

This remedy relieves pain and earaches associated with teething, with irritability and hypersensitivity to pain.

Hepar sulphuris calcareum

This remedy is indicated when an earache is very painful or infection is advanced (with a bulging eardrum or pus formation). Stabbing, sticking pains "like a splinter being driven in" are a likely indication. The person is very sensitive to everything, especially cold and drafts, and may feel extremely vulnerable and touchy.

Mercurius solubilis

This remedy may be helpful if an ear infection is advanced, with pus formation, shooting pains, and roaring in the ear. A person who needs this remedy is often very sensitive to temperatures (both hot and cold), has swollen lymph nodes, offensive breath, a puffy tongue, and sweat and drooling during sleeping.

Pulsatilla

This remedy is often indicated for ear infections that follow or accompany a cold. (Cold symptoms include a stuffy nose, especially indoors, and large amounts of yellow or greenish mucus.) The ear may be hot and swollen, with a feeling that something is pressing out. Pain can be worse in the evening and at night, as well as worse from heat, with a pulsing sensation. Deep itching may be felt inside, especially if ear infections are chronic. A child needing Pulsatilla usually is sad and tearful, wanting to be held and comforted.

Aconitum napellus

This remedy relieves earaches occurring after exposure to very cold weather.

Ferrum phosphoricum

This relieves low-grade fever with weakness and tendency to nosebleeds and earaches.

Kali muriaticum

This relieves ear congestion with cracking sounds in the ear, worsened by the change in pressure.

Magnesia phosphorica

An earache that feels much better when warmth and pressure are applied suggests a need for this remedy. The pain may be mostly neuralgic, with little evidence of fluid or infection.e.t.c