Skin is the soft outer tissue covering vertebrates. Other animal coverings, such as the arthropod exoskeleton have different developmental origin, structure and chemical composition. The adjective cutaneous means of the skin (from Latin cutis, skin).
Sorry to hear about your problem. The numbness in the ear can be due to variety of reasons. Some of them are. Diabetes. Peripheral neuropathy. Sensory nerve trauma. Ear infection. Cold. Cerebro vascular accident. Ear injury etc. As there is no history of trauma, so ear injury and sensory nerve trauma can be ruled out. Diabetes can be detected by undergoing a blood glucose test. This numbness can be caused by a preceding throat infection which can result in ear infection leading to numbness.
We can safely say that dryness and itching inside or around the ear are caused by the excessively dry skin around this area. D. But what causes it? Why is it happening to some but not others? Listed below are probable causes. 1. Skin Conditions. Skin conditions that typically cause the skin to dry out on other parts of the body could also affect the ears. You may see some dryness, flaking, crusting, and itching including in the ear canal if you have one of the following conditions.