Parents smoking too much may cause deafness? Parents often smoking can make the child in the smoke, in addition to may make the child suffer from acute, chronic rhinitis, hypertrophy of proliferator, secondary otitis media secondary to upper respiratory tract infection, cigarette smoke harmful substances have a stimulating effect on the delicate middle ear mucosa of children.
It can increase and thicken the mucus of the middle ear endocrine, and obstruct the eustachian tube, thus causing effusion in the middle ear and inducing otitis media. Over a long period of time, tympanic membrane perforation, thickening, calcification adhesion, invagination make hearing loss, and finally cause conductive deafness.
Domestic and foreign medical experts believe that children's deafness is related to passive smoking, which is mostly conductive and the result of chronic inflammation of the middle ear. In order to avoid the damage of children's hearing function, parents should give up smoking and try to avoid passive smoking. Only in this way can the incidence of children's otitis media with effusion and upper respiratory tract diseases be reduced.
John middot McKee, an expert in environmental medicine at Harvard University in the United States, has found that cigarette smoke can cause tympanic congestion in children and cause otitis media. The reason is that harmful or allergic substances in the smoke stimulate the middle ear and cause inflammation. About one million children in the United States suffer from otitis media every year, and 80% of them live with smokers. If it is too late for children to develop to deafness, parents must pay attention to it.