Glue ear
To understand the effects of glue ear better, we need to understand how the ear works. For one, you should know that your ear is divided into three major parts; these are the outer, the middle as well as the inner parts of the ear. Sound waves are trapped by the external part of the ear where they are then forced to bounce all the way to the eardrum. Because of this mechanism, the eardrum is forced to vibrate. The eardrum separates the external ear from the middle ear and within the middle ear there are ossicles which are tiny bones, three in number. The vibrated sound is passed through these three bones and later the vibrated sound is transmitted all the way to the inner ear. The primary objective of the inner ear is to transform the vibrated sound into clear sound signals before they are passed on to the brain to enable hearing.
So what is glue ear? How can glue ear be of danger to an individual? When the middle region of your ear is blocked by glue like fluid instead of air pressure, we can say that you are a victim of glue ear. We have seen that vibrated sound travels through the external ear, passed the middle ear before making their arrival to the inner ear where they are transformed into sound signals before sending them to the brain for us to hear. The entire process happens in a fraction of a second. When this accumulation is more, the inner ear will receive sound vibrations that are dampened and thus will not be able to process the correct sound signals. Because of this factor, victims of glue ear will always present some rather conflicting essentials of hearing where the procedure can be referred to as selective hearing.
