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One year old baby can pull out the ear? How to get your baby's ears out?

Many parents have the habit of plucking their baby's ears. They think it can make the baby's ears cleaner and hearing sharper. Many parents think that the baby's earwax is harmful to the baby, so they often use tools such as toothpicks, cotton swabs and ear spoons to pluck the baby's earwax. In fact, it's easy to cause otitis media by pulling out the ears.

What's the harm of often picking out earwax for babies

Little baby's outer ear canal is far from mature, and the outer ear canal is mostly flat gap like, not easy to operate, plus the inner ear skin is very delicate, often pulling out earwax is very easy to cause some adverse consequences: the light one cuts out the inner ear skin and causes inflammation, boils and sores, severe may pierce the tympanic membrane, resulting in hearing damage to the baby.

Clinicians have also found that frequent earwax removal can cause the skin of the external auditory canal to form papilloma due to frequent stimulation. Although it is benign and can be removed by surgery, it is easy to recur after resection, and it may turn into cancer after repeated recurrences, posing a threat to life.

So you can understand why you should treat your baby's earwax well. Generally speaking, earwax will fall off automatically with the baby's chewing, mouth opening or yawning activities, with the help of the movement of the jaw and other joints, and discharge the ear canal, so you don't need to worry. (this article is exclusively compiled by WYH, editor of sihai.com. If you need to reprint it, please indicate the source and source. Related article link: http://www.4hw.com.cn/life/jiankang.html)

The function of earwax

You may think it's incredible, because earwax is generally regarded as useless waste, but it's not. Earwax plays an important role in protecting people's ears

Earwax is like a sentry guarding the gate of the external auditory canal, preventing foreign matters from entering the ear and protecting the ear canal and eardrum. When the dust in the air intrudes into the ear canal of the baby, the earwax can stick them and keep the outer ear canal clean; if there are small flying insects flying into the ear canal of the baby, once they taste the bitter earwax, they will immediately 'escape'. (this article is exclusively compiled by WYH, editor of sihai.com. If you need to reprint it, please indicate the source and source. Related article link: http://www.4hw.com.cn/life/jiankang.html)

At the same time, earwax can also act as a 'muffler'. The reason why people can hear all kinds of sounds is that different sound waves from outside are transmitted into the ear, causing tympanic membrane vibration. However, if the sound wave is too strong, such as thunder, explosion, etc., the tympanic membrane will be severely shaken because of it, which will easily lead to damage. As time goes on, the hearing will be reduced. Earwax, on the other hand, can reduce the impact of sound waves like a muffler to protect the eardrum and hearing. As the baby's hearing is still in the development stage, the protection of earwax is particularly important.

In addition, earwax has certain greasiness. If the baby is in bath, carelessly water flows into the ear, earwax can play the role of "water to cover the earth", prevent the invasion of dirty water, and then prevent the possible infectious diseases, such as external otitis, otitis media. (this article is exclusively compiled by WYH, editor of sihai.com. If you need to reprint it, please indicate the source and source. Related article link: http://www.4hw.com.cn/life/jiankang.html)

How to take out earwax for baby

You may ask, does earwax accumulate too much, also have no bad effect? The answer is no of course. If the baby's earwax accumulates too much, the earwax dries, even fills the ear canal, but cannot discharge by itself, it may bring negative effects, such as hindering hearing, causing incomplete deafness, or inducing infection and tinnitus due to ear blockage.

At this point, you can try the following methods:

The first step is to give your baby 1-2 drops of ear drops before he goes to bed. When dropping the medicine, you should let the baby lie on the bed or hold him on your knee, his head should be turned over, healthy ears should be under, and sick ears should be on top. After the medicine is dripped in, let the child keep this position for 2 minutes, so that the earwax can be fully diluted.

The second step is to put an earplug made of sterilized cotton ball in the sick ear of the baby. The next day the earplugs are removed, and the earwax may stick to them and be removed from the ear canal.

If the above method is not useful, then you should go to the hospital to seek the doctor's help. The doctor will put on the otoscope to make a 'reconnaissance' of the baby's ear, estimate the amount of earwax and the degree of blockage of the ear canal, and then inject warm water into the baby's ear with a syringe to flush out the earwax. The whole washing process may make the baby feel a little uncomfortable, but it will not hurt the baby's ear canal and eardrum, which is very safe.

Many parents think that the baby's earwax is harmful to the baby, so they often use tools such as toothpicks, cotton swabs, ear spoons and so on to remove the baby's earwax, and they must clean it up. You may think it's nothing wrong. But do you know that it's harmful for your baby's health to take out earwax often!