It looks like one of my friend from work was right. My ear is sore again.
I was complaining that the rubber covers on my iPod earphones keep falling off. In fact, it’s embarassing because they often fall off and stay in my ear when I take the earplugs out, leaving a black rubber foam cover inside my ear. When I don’t notice this, my friends get a good laugh or just get perplexed… "What’s that black thing in your ear?".
He said "Why don’t you just take the rubber covers off?". I told him since my ear had been sore I didn’t want to let the gunkiness get on the plastic earphone plugs. He told me he found that leaving the covers on kept the ear getting infected. So he was right. My ear had become good, but after wearing the earphones only two days this week my ear is sore again. Either of two things happened.
1. The foam rubber covers had gunk still in them and reinfected my ear.
2. Having earphone plugs in my ear makes the ear canal sweat and bacteria grows in there, infecting it again.
Either way, I’m not using my ipod for a while.. at least until I can find earphones that just sit over the ear.. like headphones.. rather than in-ear earplug ones.
