What's the matter with Cang Yan

summary

Some parents will find that there is a small eye beside the sideburns in front of their children's ears. It is a folk custom that you have "Cang eye". Some old people even call it "qiancang grain", which indicates the future prosperity. Of course, this is pure ignorance and superstition. In fact, this is a kind of congenital malformation, called "preauricular fistula", which is formed by residual obstacles in the process of embryo development. Now let's share what happened to cangyan.

What's the matter with Cang Yan

First: preauricular fistula is a layer of concave skin, which has all the characteristics of skin elsewhere in the human body, including epithelium, hair follicles, sweat glands and sebaceous glands. At ordinary times, the secretion of epithelium and sebaceous glands that fall off from the fistula can not be discharged in the tube. Once it is invaded by bacteria, it will be infected and inflamed.

Second: the baby with preauricular fistula usually has no other symptoms except local itching. Sometimes, it can squeeze the small eyes gently, and a little white secretion with odor can flow out around the small eyes. Once the secondary infection, local redness, heat pain, suppuration, abscess after breaking is difficult to heal, or healing when broken repeatedly, grow granulation, even if the formation of scars will still be infected again, so that the baby deeply painful, parents can according to the above characteristics of self-examination.

Third, the most fundamental treatment of preauricular fistula is to remove the fistula and its associated sac. If there is secondary infection, the infection should be controlled immediately after surgery. Do not squeeze the fistulas that have not been infected. Wipe the fistulas with 70% alcohol to protect the local area from infection

matters needing attention

For non infected preauricular fistulas, no special treatment is needed, while for infected fistulas, infection should be controlled, such as local use of anti-inflammatory drugs and oral antibiotics. If the infection is serious, local abscess formation, can be cut drainage. When the infection is well controlled, surgical treatment should be performed to remove the fistula. The operation should be thorough, otherwise it is easy to relapse.