{"id":29370,"date":"2025-06-10T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29370"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:25:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:25:58","slug":"how-can-i-avoid-swimmers-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29370","title":{"rendered":"How Can I Avoid Swimmer\u2019s Ear?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Q: Last summer, my ear started feeling itchy and really painful after swimming. How can I avoid it this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Swimmer\u2019s ear is an infection of the ear canal that can plague water lovers and anyone else who sweats, showers or simply lives in a humid climate.<\/p>\n

Nearly 1 in 10 people<\/a> will experience a bout of this infection in their lifetime. Summer, unsurprisingly, is prime time for swimmer\u2019s ear<\/a>. Both children and adults can get swimmer\u2019s ear \u2014 and those who are immunocompromised, have diabetes or other underlying conditions are at greater risk of both getting it and having complications.<\/p>\n

Not to be confused with the annoying sensation of trapped water in your ear, acute swimmer\u2019s ear will get your attention quickly. \u201cIt\u2019s exquisitely painful,\u201d said Dr. Sapna Singh, a pediatrician and chief medical officer at Texas Children\u2019s Pediatrics in Houston. \u201cI\u2019ve seen teenagers come in in tears.\u201d The ear canal can become itchy and swollen and may leak fluid or a smelly discharge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The good news: With prescription ear drops, most people start to feel better within a few days. Still, doctors recommend keeping water out of your ear canal for a week or more, depending on how severe the infection is.<\/p>\n

If not treated, complications can ensue, including chronic swimmer\u2019s ear and, in rarer cases, an infection that spreads beyond the ear canal.<\/p>\n

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Q: Last summer, my ear started feeling itchy and really painful after swimming. How can I avoid it this year?Swimmer\u2019s ear is an infection of the ear canal that can plague water lovers and anyone else who sweats, showers or simply lives in a humid climate.Nearly 1 in 10 people will experience a bout of this infection in their lifetime. Summer, unsurprisingly, is prime time for swimmer\u2019s ear. Both children and adults can get swimmer\u2019s ear \u2014 and those who are immunocompromised, have diabetes or other underlying conditions are at greater risk of both getting it and having complications.Not to be confused with the annoying sensation of trapped water in your ear, acute swimmer\u2019s ear will get your attention quickly. \u201cIt\u2019s exquisitely painful,\u201d said Dr. Sapna Singh, a pediatrician and chief medical officer at Texas Children\u2019s Pediatrics in Houston. \u201cI\u2019ve seen teenagers come in in tears.\u201d The ear canal can become itchy and swollen and may leak fluid or a smelly discharge.The good news: With prescription ear drops, most people start to feel better within a few days. Still, doctors recommend keeping water out of your ear canal for a week or more, depending on how severe the infection is.If not treated, complications can ensue, including chronic swimmer\u2019s ear and, in rarer cases, an infection that spreads beyond the ear canal.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29372,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29373,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29370\/revisions\/29373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}