Ear surgery<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your ear is packed with dissolvable packing and ointment, so your hearing will be muffled for up to 3 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mild to moderate discomfort occurs after ear surgery. Take pain medication as instructed by your surgeon, usually every 4 \u2013 6 hours as needed. Call your surgeon if the pain is getting worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you have a cup over your ear after surgery, keep this on for 24 hours. Then you may wear it as needed for comfort. You will have a cotton ball in your ear. You may change this as needed to catch drainage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incision behind your ear should stay completely dry for 3 days, then a shower or bath is okay, but do not soak the incision under water. The ear canal needs to stay completely dry until your first follow-up visit. When showering, coat a cotton ball in ointment or Vaseline and place it in the ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No strenuous activity (no running, no PE class, nothing that raises the heart rate) Avoid nose blowing, straining, Sneeze with mouth open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Use prescribed ear drops starting 1 week after surgery and continue until follow-up appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Make a follow-up appointment to see the surgeon approximately 3 weeks after surgery. It takes this long for the packing in the ear canal to dissolve. All the sutures used are dissolvable, so there is no suture removal necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You will get a follow-up hearing test 2 \u2013 3 months after your surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
increasing pain, increasing drainage from the ear canal or the incision behind the ear, especially purulent drainage, fever \/ upper respiratory infection symptoms, vertigo \/ dizziness \/ spinning sensation, inability to move the face on the side of the surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Type: Ear surgery Hearing: Your ear is packed with dissolvable packing and ointment, so your hearing will be muffled for up to 3 weeks. Pain: Mild to moderate discomfort occurs after ear surgery. Take pain medication as instructed by your surgeon, usually every 4 \u2013 6 hours as needed. Call your surgeon if the pain…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1716,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"service_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricentillinois.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricentillinois.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricentillinois.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricentillinois.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricentillinois.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricentillinois.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3135\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricentillinois.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricentillinois.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"service_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricentillinois.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service_tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}