The child's ears are blocked by earwax

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Occasionally, some children can hear the sound in their ears. In shampoo, swimming, water into the external auditory canal to make earwax expansion, will appear above phenomenon. Some parents saw that there was earwax in their children's ears, so they used their fingers, hairpins, ear openers or matchsticks to dig for them. Because children are afraid of pain, they are unwilling to cooperate and cry, so it is easy to tear the skin of children's external auditory canal, and the damaged part is prone to bacterial infection, causing external auditory canal inflammation and ear furuncle. More serious is to break the tympanic membrane, leading to otitis media, and hearing loss in children. So how to deal with earwax correctly

The child's ears are blocked by earwax

First: in fact, for children who don't have much earwax, they don't need to deal with it. They can also use cotton swabs to gently clean up at the entrance of the external auditory canal. If you have a lot of earwax, you can use baking soda solution and drop it into your ears three or four times a day. After a day, if the earwax becomes soft, gently remove it with tweezers.

Second: when there is too much earwax, roll the absorbent cotton into a cotton swab and gently clean out the earwax; you can also use the ear canal spoon to gently take out the earwax. Usually with a cotton swab dipped in a little alcohol, often clean the external auditory canal can reduce earwax. When the earwax is hard to remove, go to the hospital and ask the doctor to take it out to avoid injury.

Third: in fact, it's best to use a cotton stick to gently rotate in the external auditory canal, and then turn the ear down, so that the earwax is easy to come out; try not to use nails, iron sticks and other sharp objects to pull out the ear. Don't form the habit of ear tapping and frequent ear tapping, once a week is OK; but in places with more dust or people with "oily ears", it can be done more frequently.

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Pay attention to the process must fix the child's head, do not make it move. Usually every week to use a small cotton swab coated with aureomycin eye ointment, roll in the external auditory canal, one can help sterilization, two can wet the skin of the external auditory canal, so that the natural fall off of earwax.