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Carmen Gomaro - leading international news and investigative reporter. Worked at various media outlets in Spain, Argentina and Colombia, including Diario de Cádiz, CNN+, Telemadrid and EFE.

INTERNATIONAL

Türkiye keeps a deputy symbol of anti-government protests in prison

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Two months after the Turkish Parliament launched a new legislature, one of the seats in the chamber remains empty. The seat belongs to Can Atalay, of the left-wing formation of the Turkish Workers' Party (TIP), imprisons

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F-16s won't see combat in Ukraine until next spring

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It is one thing to approve the shipment of a weapons system to Ukraine and quite another for these weapons to reach that country and be used in combat.. The best example is that of the F-16. The president of the United States, Joe Biden, authorized in May the partners

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War Ukraine – Russia, last minute | Russia neutralizes 11 Ukrainian drones near Crimea and another two aimed at Moscow

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Russian forces have shot down several combat drones heading towards Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry has announced.. This is the latest in a series of actions carried out by kyiv to attack Moscow a year and a half after the war in Ukraine began.

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A Russian attack leaves 2 dead and 7 wounded in Zaporizhia

A Russian rocket attack on Wednesday killed two people and wounded at least seven others in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia, Ukrainian authorities said.

Although regional governor Yuriy Malashko initially said three people had been killed in the attack on a residential area, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko later reported that two people had been killed and a third had been revived.

The city is located about 50 kilometers northeast of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which has been occupied by Russian forces since the first weeks of the war.. The fall of projectiles in the surroundings of the plant has raised fears that a nuclear accident could occur.

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Russia shoots down 11 Ukrainian drones near Crimea and another two aimed at Moscow

The Russian Defense Ministry has said its forces had shot down 11 Ukrainian drones near the annexed Crimean peninsula and two others aimed at the capital, Moscow.

“Two UAVs flying in the direction of the city of Moscow were destroyed,” the ministry said.

“Near the city of Sevastopol (in Crimea), two UAVs were hit by anti-aircraft defense teams and another nine were suppressed by means of electronic warfare,” it added.

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This is the ship in which four NASA astronauts will orbit the Moon: "The goal is still to land on the moon in December 2025"

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There are no vacations for NASA astronauts who are going to the Moon. The four crew members selected last April to orbit the Moon in November 2024 saw the Orion spacecraft for the first time on Tuesday in which they will travel during the Artemis 2 mission, and later appeared at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida together to those responsible for the US space agency to explain how their training is going and the preparations for the first manned trip to the Moon in more than half a century.

“It's been a great day,” said Reid Wiseman, the commander of this mission, which also includes pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Hammock Koch and Jeremy Hansen, the latter from the Canadian Space Agency.. “We have been busy since April,” summarized Wiseman, who highlighted how impressed he is by the team's work: “I would like all Americans, Canadians, Europeans and all who support us to see the quality of the people who part of this program, how hard they work and how motivated and excited they are.”

“The fact that the crew has already seen their spacecraft is another important step in getting back to the moon.. Remember that we are going back to the Moon but it is a different moon, we are going to the South Pole, and we are going to see several spacecraft, some from other countries that are going to land in the future, and some this year,” said the NASA director. , Bill Nelson.

Without going any further, next Friday Russia plans to launch the Luna-25 robotic ship towards the South Pole, the first command in half a century: “I don't think many people at this time would say that Russia is ready for its cosmonauts to land on the moon.” the term we are talking about. I think the space race is really going on between the US and China and we have to protect the rights of the international community,” Nelson said..

The head of the agency has recalled that having water on the lunar surface will potentially mean having hydrogen and oxygen. “And so we go back to the Moon, to learn and live in the space environment for long periods of time, so we can go to Mars and back safely.”.

As he declared during a recent interview with EL MUNDO, the head of NASA has stated that the US objective is to make sure that the water [from the Moon] is available to everyone: “Seeing the actions of the Chinese government on Earth , claiming the Spratly Islands as our own, we want to ensure that the ideals of the peaceful and cooperative use of space contained in the Artemis Accords, which have already been signed by 28 countries, will be respected. Naturally, I don't want China to reach the South Pole with humans first, say it's theirs, and leave the rest of us out.”

Now, Nelson added, NASA returns “in a different way, with commercial partners and with international partners.. Bill Nelson, director of NASA: “I think we will reach Mars in 2040, there are only 17 years left”

Writing: TERESA GUERRERO Madrid
Writing: ALBERTO DI LOLLI (PHOTOGRAPHY)

Bill Nelson, director of NASA: “I think we will reach Mars in 2040, there are only 17 years left”

Space. This is the spacesuit that the first woman and the next man to walk on the Moon will wear

Writing: TERESA GUERRERO Madrid

This is the spacesuit that the first woman and the next man to walk on the Moon will wear

Regarding the technical development of the Orion spacecraft, Jim Free, associate director of NASA, explained that the main challenge continues to be solving the problems detected during the Artemis 1 test flight in the vehicle's new solar shield, which is the one that will protect the crew from the high temperatures that the capsule will have to withstand during re-entry into the atmosphere. “We have some ideas about what could cause the problems in the shield that protects the ship when it returns to Earth,” said Free, who has been confident that they will solve it in time.. In Artemisa 2, he stressed, security is going to be the top priority: “We are going to try to know as much as possible about the risks during this mission in order to minimize them.”

In the air is the question of whether Artemis 3, the mission that will take at least two astronauts to the lunar surface, can be carried out by the end of 2025, as planned. And it is that the explosion last April, of one of the key components, the SpaceX Starship, during its first complete test, has been a headache to maintain this calendar: “For now we are working with the objective of landing on the moon in December 2025,” Free said.

The astronauts have also been asked what they do to disconnect after hard training.

Christina Koch, for her part, added that they also take the opportunity to get to know each other as well as possible. “Last night, for example, we went to dinner together at a restaurant. We already feel like a family.”

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The 'annus horribilis' in Vox, from Olona to Espinosa, between purges, radicalization and fiascos from Ayuso to Tamames

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In the offices on Bambú street they do not remember what it is to have a quiet August. The abandonment of Iván Espinosa de los Monteros reactivates the tremors within Vox after an unstable year, of successes and failures at the polls and a progressive turn to the right that anchors the party in an obvious ideological withdrawal that now, with a new wound bleeding and still assuming the shock of 23-J, the leaders who have fallen and been relieved in recent months already point out.

The resignation of Iván Espinosa de los Monteros can be understood as the cause of a crisis to which Vox is now opening up with uncertainty, but it is really the consequence of a year in which the group shed its skin until exposing the seams of the two factions: the liberal-conservative and the national-catholic. Exactly twelve months ago, Macarena Olona put Santiago Abascal's strategy in jeopardy by resuming her public activity after leaving Vox in strange circumstances and embarking with her followers on the Camino de Santiago. The hard wing then took control of the party.

There is no correlation between the break with Olona and the electoral failure two and a half weeks ago, which plunged the formation into 33 deputies, 19 below 2019. In the midst of both milestones Vox expanded its territorial structure and articulated a strong local base on 28-M. It was the party that grew the most. However, the national strategy of the party in recent months and the expansion of Alberto Núñez Feijóo's PP did weaken Vox, which led notable controversies in the crucial phase of the race to the polls that penalized the right on 23-J.

Iván Espinosa de los Monteros leaves Vox for “personal reasons”

In the final stretch of the campaign, Abascal predicted greater “tensions” in Catalonia if the right wing reached La Moncloa. Vox challenged the PP in its regional pacts by denying the existence of sexist violence, and in the premises it made controversial decisions, such as the withdrawal of LGTBI flags or the cancellation of cultural shows, which made the PP criticize Vox's “aggressiveness” since the left to base its electoral campaign on a fight against the “censorship” that the right activated in its new administrations. The result was an exceptional mobilization of the progressive voter in order to defend everything that Vox promised to repeal if it finally governed: feminism, the 2030 Agenda, equality laws or nationalisms.

Before, the political ecosystem of the right reached the pre-electoral terrain with turbulence. Vox tried since the beginning of the year to show itself as the only real alternative to sanchismo after symbolically breaking with the PP by knocking down the budgets of Isabel Díaz Ayuso in the Community of Madrid. This led to tensions in other regions, such as those related to abortion and fetal heartbeat in Castilla y León, one of the worst confrontations with the popular ones that diverted the focus from the reform of the crimes of embezzlement and sedition carried out by the Government of coalition.

Something similar happened weeks later, in the midst of a political storm due to the effects of the “only yes is yes” law, when Abascal selected economist Ramón Tamames, 89, who opposes Vox, as a candidate for a motion of no confidence with no chance of success.. It only served for his “self-promotion”, public joke and presentation as a future candidate of Yolanda Díaz, to whom Pedro Sánchez gave the role of responding to the old communist. Vox, by the way, will no longer be able to present motions of censure or appeals before the Constitutional Court as it does not have enough deputies. An added difficulty to the already complex strategy faced by the parliamentary group after the departure of its iconic leader.

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The relationship between Abascal and Espinosa de los Monteros was partly twisted by the preparation of the lists of 23-J. Vox dispensed with deputies related to the spokesperson and with a liberal profile. He left out Víctor Sánchez del Real, one of the first party strategists and the ideologue of the successful 2018 Andalusian campaign, the takeoff of Vox. Also to Rubén Manso, prominent economist. Yesterday, in a forum in Vozpópuli, Manso accused Vox of becoming his caricature and was of the opinion that the departure of Espinosa de los Monteros augurs that the party will be the first of his European current to “fail” and sink.

Instead, the party opted for a new generation of parliamentarians: Pepa Millán, a former senator, or Jacobo Robatto, one of the architects of Olona's failed campaign in Andalusia in June 2022.. Ignacio Hoces, deputy secretary of Vox Institutional and new strong man at the top, also disembarks. He attended the farewell to Espinosa de los Monteros yesterday in Congress and will reinforce his role in the party, although it is taken for granted that the open crisis will now cause a profound reorganization that will surely generate more internal movements.

In any case, the restructuring will take place without altering the power accumulated at the top of the party, reinforced just over a month ago through a statutory reform approved by the militants shortly before the start of the electoral campaign.. Thanks to it, the Vox leadership increases its control by toughening the sanctions against those party members who damage the political brand, as well as those who disregard guidelines or instructions given by the party leaders.. A movement that reinforces the vertical structure of Vox, with Abascal as the unquestionable leader and flanked by his two trusted people in the political sphere: Jorge Buxadé and Ignacio Garriga. The resignation of Iván Espinosa de los Monteros and the wave of support he has received from the fallen of Vox -Manso, Sánchez del Real, Ortega Smith, Olona- corroborates that the party is growing in a single direction. On the table remains the question of whether the parliamentary group will follow that path with its new spokesman.

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Sánchez del Real, another 'purged': "In the founding principles of Vox there were many sensibilities, now there is only one"

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“One of the saddest days I remember”. This is how Víctor Sánchez del Real, one of the founders of Vox and one of the most active Vox deputies in Congress in the last legislature, responds to the news of the departure of Iván Espinosa de los Monteros from the leadership of Santiago Abascal's party. Sánchez del Real admits that the departure of one of his main references in the game is one more blow to the drift that the formation has been suffering in recent times, although he is not “surprised” either.. It is true, he recalls, that the family situation that Espinosa de los Monteros has gone through is a factor to take into account, but he does not hesitate to ensure that “to this day, those who defended certain ideas have left voluntarily and others are out without knowing why». Among the latter he refers to himself.

It is not only that he belonged to the small group of people who came together to form Vox -he put money out of his pocket-, it is that he also directed the electoral campaign in Andalusia, that of 2018, where this formation achieved a result as surprising as it was extraordinary, in addition from being in charge of creating and molding this party in Extremadura from scratch, until getting five deputies in the last regional elections, being the decisive key for the new government. But suddenly, a few days later, specifically on June 16, they invited him to pick up his things from his office.. To this day, he has not received a single explanation for this dismissal, which also included other people close to Espinosa de los Monteros, who formed the working group of the economic area in recent years.. Those branded as liberals, at least those who came from the private sector. «You always supported me, you understood, you guided. And it has always been an honor to break the gap by your side,” Sánchez del Real, a communicator by profession, wrote on his Twitter account.. “The best parliamentarian that Spain has had in this century has been lost and surely one of the best in the history of Spanish parliamentarianism,” explains the former deputy to EL MUNDO.

Sánchez del Real explains that “now there are only people left within Vox who only represent certain ideas when in the founding manifesto of Vox all the sensibilities that represented a balance of ideas were represented, which no longer exists, now they are no longer found” and He does not know if Abascal's formation “will regain that balance and if the necessary vehicles exist to recover those equitable ideas that previously existed in Vox and that have disappeared with the exit that is taking place, some voluntary and others not,” he acknowledges. .

Asked what types of ideas now exist in Vox, exclusively, Sánchez del Real avoids a direct and forceful answer, but encourages us to review those who have left the group for one reason or another and who defended “certain ideas that now They are not seen, now there is only one». and stays there. “Now they say that there were no different sensitivities in Vox, of course there were, as in all parties,” he recalls, and for this he again cites the founding principles of Vox, a stage in which he was not only a direct witness, but a protagonist .

On social networks, the former deputy added messages in an internal code in his tribute to Espinosa de los Monteros: “With the complicity of those who do not even have to speak to move forward together. Faced with so many who did not believe and left or came giving lessons when “we were already on TV”. That's why, with you, always. Anywhere. One way or the other. At any cost again” to remember that he entered Vox on the eve of its founding “because of you.”

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The PSOE meets with Bildu in Navarra to explain the agreement that will make Chivite president again

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Representatives of the Socialist Party of Navarra (PSN), Geroa Bai and Contigo-Zurekin have met this Wednesday with EH Bildu to transfer and explain to him the programmatic agreement that they presented this Tuesday to form a Government in Navarra.

These contacts are carried out in a context in which the socialist María Chivite is awaiting the decision made by the bases of EH Bildu. His membership will have to vote throughout this Wednesday if the party should abstain to facilitate the governance of the acting president.

The Bildu Political Table in Navarra sent a clear message in this regard: “We find ourselves in a complex context, at a time that is transitioning between the old policy of the regime that is running out and a new stage that advances without exclusions and without complexes”. “In Navarra there are progressive majorities and the citizens do not want the right to govern either in Navarra or in Madrid.”

And although his spokesperson in the regional congress, Laura Aznal, pointed out this Wednesday that “we do not feel linked to this agreement because it is not ours”, he added that “the investiture can be a starting point that opens a four-year path to keep advancing”. With regard to a future immersion in political support, the regional deputy said: “We have made our total predisposition to advance our priorities: expanding rights, strengthening public services and self-government.”

In addition to increasing his group by two seats, from seven to nine, Bildu was the third party with the most votes in the regional elections of 28-M in Navarra. In this sense, Aznal has indicated: “The public wants Bildu to be a protagonist in this path that must be followed these four years.”

Bearing in mind this necessary support, Chivite already declared this Tuesday that he will bet on “linguistic diversity”.. “Navarre claims its diversity, in defense of its heritage and culture. And, of course, their own languages. Hence, we show the greatest respect for Basque in the context of the law from sociolinguistic logic”.

That is why the president of the Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN), Javier Esparza, has lamented that the formation headed by Arnaldo Otegui is the one who “decides” who presides over the Government of Navarra. Irene Royo has stressed that “we have been offered a theater and a lack of respect for ten weeks”. To which he has added: “It has been a lack of respect, above all, for Navarrese society”. In addition, the future government has been branded as “weak, without a clear mandate and that it will be subject to Bildu.”

Vox's gaze has also focused on the role that the pro-independence force will develop in the legislature. The disappearance of the formation in the signing of the programmatic agreement has come as a certain surprise for one of the representatives of Abascal's party in Navarra, Maite Nosti: “Bildu was not present, but it really is of great importance because this new government is going to depend on them, as we all know.”

In a speech similar to the national one, Nosti has also made reference to the public spending that the new Executive will entail: “Political spending is very high. Not satisfied with that, now there are three vice presidencies so that the three ladies representing the three respective parties are happy.”

AUGUST 12, INVESTMENT SESSION

The president of the Navarrese Congress, Unai Hualde, has announced this Wednesday that the candidate chosen to submit to the investiture is the socialist María Chivite. The acting leader of the Executive has formalized her candidacy to comply “with the mandate expressed by the Navarrese and Navarrese at the polls”, as she has indicated on social networks.

In addition, and after holding a meeting with all the political representatives, Hualde has set next Saturday as the date to hold the first investiture plenary session, where the first vote will take place.. Regarding the second, this could be convened 24 hours later, where a simple majority -more yeses than noes- would grant the presidency to the candidate presented.

Despite the fact that the regulations of the Parliament of Navarra set the period between the round of contacts and the investiture session at 72 hours, both the president and the Parliamentary Bureau can speed up these periods, according to Europa Press. Hualde explained that this Friday the Table and Board of Spokespersons will approve these deadlines, although Esparza, whose group is made up of 15 representatives, has shown a position against advancing the deadlines.

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A gang of thieves who stole jewelry and watches from 35 elderly people with the "loving hug" method falls

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A joint operation between the Police and the Mossos have made it possible to dismantle an itinerant criminal gang dedicated to the theft of high-end watches and jewelery using the “loving embrace” method in Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza, Huesca and Calatayud. The band began to perform in July 2021 in Zaragoza, for a short period of time, and then they reappeared in April 2022 and moved throughout the peninsula.. There are 16 detainees from the same family clan who carried out these robberies by the hugging method and another three who used “scalping”, stealing money from someone who takes out from an ATM by distracting him.

Last December, agents arrested 12 people in the Yapeyú-Amusca operation.. The gang operated through cells distributed throughout Spain, having its main bases of action in the provinces of Barcelona, Valencia and Murcia, from which they were distributed functionally and territorially and exchanged, in turn, among the components of the groups to avoid be discovered. The agents identified the suspects and carried out 7 simultaneous searches in Barcelona, Badalona, Cerdanyola del Vallés and Valencia, finding a large amount of false documentation, stolen jewelry, cash and around thirty mobile phones that were exchanged between the members of the organization. .

The Police and the Mossos attribute 35 robberies to these 12 people, 26 in Zaragoza, 6 in Barcelona and 4 in Valencia. In addition, three others accused of stealing using the “scalping” technique were arrested in the operation.. The “loving hug” consists of one or two women approaching people, generally the elderly, who they embrace, claiming to be a neighborhood or family acquaintance, in order to steal the watches or jewelry they are wearing.. After appropriating the jewels, the suspects flee in a vehicle, driven by a third person who was waiting for them nearby.

The 'scalping' is also to rob elderly people while operating at ATMs. They stand next to him and look at his safety pin.. Then they distract them to take away their card and make withdrawals at other banks. The three arrested suspects are accused of 7 robberies by this method.

Thanks to the false documentation obtained in the records, the agents were able to arrest four other alleged members of the group in Barcelona and clarify robberies in Zaragoza, Huesca and Calatayud by finding stolen objects. The Police have also received more complaints from victims, so after two years of investigation they consider this gang dismantled, since most of its members went to prison. Most are accused of the crimes of robbery with violence, theft, belonging to a criminal organization, document falsification, money laundering and sexual assault. The value of what was stolen in the city of Zaragoza exceeds 250,000 euros.

HEALTH

Flip flops: yes or no? The heads and tails of a typically summer shoe

August 9, 2023 Carmen Gomaro Leave a comment

In summer, in addition to our clothes, we also change our shoes. After months of being protected by socks and boots, our feet are more exposed than ever.. That is why we must take a series of precautions to avoid contracting infections and some other pathology that can cause us to end up in the podiatrist's office.

Points in favor of the use of flip flops

Flip flops are more than recommended footwear for spaces where we can find puddled water such as common showers, access to swimming pools and the area around the pool, changing rooms…. Mainly because its use will prevent slips and falls and because it will protect our feet from infections.

The most commons are:

Fungus. The most common foot fungus infections can be basically divided into two: athlete's foot and tinea pedis, but the first one is undoubtedly the most common.. Wearing a pair of flip-flops in swimming pools and changing rooms is the best way to prevent infection, in addition to drying the spaces between and under your toes well with a towel. Fortunately, its contagion is not something serious, but it is very annoying because the area will itch a lot and injuries can occur if the skin cracks.
Papillomavirus or HPV. Getting infected with this virus is very easy, especially in summer because the number of people who go to changing rooms and swimming pools multiplies, and the best way to prevent it is to always use flip flops, not share shoes or towels and keep your feet dry. Despite the fact that its name, human papillomavirus, reminds us of an STD that can cause cancer, it should be remembered that HPV is a family of more than 200 types of virus and in the case of the cousin of the feet it will be limited to cause an annoying and painful plantar wart that will not have worse consequences.

Points against the use of flip flops

As we have seen, flip flops can help us avoid suffering from some of the main foot pathologies, but we should never abuse them.. Its use must be limited exclusively to changing rooms, beaches and swimming pools.. If we use them to walk for long distances, it would not be strange if we suffered any of the following problems:

tendon inflammation. When walking with flip flops we have a tendency to curve our fingers to hold them, we put them in a claw, also the steps we take are shorter due to this lack of adequate support and we unconsciously make a greater effort when walking which means continually tensing muscles and tendons. That will end up inflaming them and causing pain.
plantar fasciitis. Flip-flops, along with a large part of summer footwear such as ballerinas, ballerinas or espadrilles, are very flat footwear that does not respect the natural unevenness of the plantar arch.. As a consequence, there is an extra effort and tension in the musculature of the sole of the foot when walking, in the plantar fascia, which is stretched and will end up causing inflammation and significant pain.
Ankle sprain. A flip-flop does not hold the foot properly, and if it is one of those that only has a vertical piece that is inserted between two fingers and a horizontal strip that goes from side to side, known as flip-flop, even worse.. That little support of the foot generates a significant instability of the gait, who has not turned the flip-flop and has ended up with the heel stepping outside, and that very easily leads to sprains, trips and falls.

As a conclusion, we must use flip flops but never abuse them. We will limit their use to the spaces for which they have been designed, and if the walk to the pool or the beach is long, we will change them for another shoe that supports the foot, provides stability and has an insole that respects the plantar arch.

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What is swimmer's ear: mistakes you should not make and how to prevent it

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As annoying as it is frequent, external otitis, also known as “swimmer's ear”, is a condition that experiences a rebound in cases in summer. Indeed, swimming and the many hours we spend in the water, on the beach or in the pool, can facilitate its development.

What are the causes of swimmer's ear?

“Otitis externa is an infection of the external auditory canal, generally due to bacteria or sometimes fungi,” explains Claudio Albizzati, from the Otorhinolaryngology Service of the Multimédica Hospital Group of Milan.

Its development is linked to the stagnation of water in the external auditory canal where, thanks to the maceration of the cells that line this canal and the possible presence of residual earwax, a microenvironment favorable to the proliferation of microorganisms is created.

Although it is true that the presence of earwax can favor its development, it can also occur in perfectly clean ears if one is submerged in particularly contaminated water..

Then there are exceptions, such as the paradoxical case of the Maldives, where the water is spectacular but very rich in microorganisms.. “So many that after diving in this crystalline sea it is recommended to wash the ears with fresh water, otherwise it is better to avoid it.”

Symptoms

“The first sensation is that of water remaining in the ear: in fact, earwax is hygroscopic, that is, it can absorb water. It swells, absorbs water and facilitates the proliferation of bacteria. Not to mention that when people get this feeling of wet ears, they start touching them and trying to remove the water with cotton buds or tissues, making things worse.. At first they feel some itching, caused by the subthreshold stimulation of the painful endings of the outer ear, and then the pain comes, especially at night,” explains the doctor..

“Another frequent symptom is hearing loss, that is, hearing loss, either because the earwax plug has expanded or because the canal has swollen,” he adds.

How can external otitis be treated?

“When the ear swells and hurts, the ideal is to consult a specialist who cleans the ear, but not by washing it, which is highly inadvisable, but with a special vacuum cleaner or specific hooks. Once the remains have been removed, local therapy with ear drops is used, usually based on antibiotics and cortisone, which should be used three times a day for no more than a week.. To speed healing, a wick, widely used in the United States, is sometimes inserted into the ear to soak the droplets and hold them in the ear canal.. If after a week there is no improvement, it is always advisable to consult a specialist”, says the doctor.

What can be done to prevent external otitis

“To prevent external otitis, especially if you are prone to developing it, the first suggestion is to go to the otolaryngologist before going on vacation to clean the ear canal of traces of earwax or dead cells,” he begins by pointing out.

“Equally important is to avoid cleaning your ears with cotton swabs. Again, if you notice your ears are wet, it helps to dry them with a hair dryer,” I add.

“While plugs are not recommended because they can push earwax down further, and also because they are 'usually reused', it ends.

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