Can you get diseases or infections from a dirty plastic ear speculum?

Can you get diseases or infections from a dirty plastic ear speculum?Can you get diseases or infections from a dirty plastic ear speculum on the otoscope that doctor's use to examine your ears? The day after the doctor examined my ears, the wall around the channel of outer ear canal is swollen and puffy. And it somewhat hurt when I pressed outside my ear with my fingers. I am not sure if it's a pimple or something else. Thank you.

Noswal
It is possible, which is why doctors always grab a new one and throw away a used one. It sounds like you might have swimmer's ear (otitis externa). Anything could have set it off.

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if it's not clean, i would definitely assume so, go to an ENT if you're really worried or it doesn't get better.
you can have someone look at it might be a pimple type thing (like a friend since it's kind of an awkward area)
So yes you can get a bit of an infection, but it doesn't sound too bad from what you're saying.

Eye C U
it is likely an otits externa infection (infection of the ear canal) and yes, using a dirty ear speculum can easily cause this. you really need to go to the doctors to have this checked out.

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