How to deal with baby's earwax

Many parents will find earwax in their children's ears when cleaning them. It is best not to clean it out, because manual cleaning may cause damage to the inside of the ear and some nerve structures in the ear may be easily affected. Therefore, when parents are cleaning their babies' ears, they must be careful not to damage the membrane inside.

It is best not to pick earwax for children . Generally speaking, earwax does not need to be removed manually. It will be automatically discharged when the lower jaw moves when talking, eating, or yawning, with the help of the sweat hair on the skin.

Frequent ear cleaning is harmful to health, specifically:

1. It is easy to damage the skin of the external auditory canal. If the earwax is hard or there is a lot of it when you clean your ears, it is easy to scratch the skin, and bacteria will take the opportunity to enter the wound and cause infection. Or due to scratching back and forth, bacteria are squeezed into the hair follicles and sebaceous gland ducts, causing inflammation and discharge, and in severe cases, furuncle in the external auditory canal occurs.

2. Frequent stimulation of the skin of the external auditory canal causes congestion of the skin, resulting in increased earwax secretion and serious accumulation. In other words, the more you dig out your earwax, the more you get.

3. Frequent ear picking will stimulate the eardrum and cause chronic inflammation, causing the eardrum to become red and thickened, and a small amount of pus to flow out of the external auditory canal.

4. If you are not careful when picking your ears, there is a risk of puncturing the eardrum. When cleaning a child's ears, this accident is more inevitable if the child suddenly struggles or stimulates the external auditory canal to produce a coughing reflex.

Therefore, do not clean your child's ears casually. If the child's earwax forms a lump or if foreign objects accidentally enter the ear, go to the hospital in time to ask the doctor to remove it. Parents should not handle it without authorization.