A plastic toy bead is inserted into the child's ear, and the parent digs deeper and deeper

Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point reporter Han Hongli correspondent Liu Wenjing

On the cold winter night, the children's hospital is busy as usual, and there are not only children with colds, fevers and coughs who come to the hospital "in groups", but also many children who "eat by mistake", "misinstain", "mistakenly plug" and other "foreign bodies".

Recently, a 6-year-old boy was rushed by his parents to the ENT clinic of Qilu Children's Hospital of Shandong University. Parents said that the child's ear into a plastic toy bead, adults try to take it out at home, the result is deeper and deeper, the hospital around the home is not able to take out at night, it is recommended to go to the children's hospital for treatment, dr. Li Wuxuan on duty carefully examined and smoothly removed the foreign body. Dr. Li, who works the same night shift, has also received several cases of foreign bodies in the ear canal. Such as beans, rice, toy beads, cassia seeds, white grit, small toy parts, these things can be "bear children" into the ears.

Image from the web

You may think that it is no big deal that a foreign body is stuffed into the ear. However, doctors remind that foreign bodies entering the ear are also different due to different types and sizes of clinical manifestations, beans and other plant foreign bodies are easy to expand when exposed to water, blocking the external ear canal, which can cause ear stuffiness, ear pain and hearing loss, and can be secondary to otitis externally.

Foreign bodies that do not change shape in the water can remain in the external auditory canal without symptoms, and can be co-infected over time, or be wrapped in cerumen to form cerumen embolism, and hard foreign bodies can also damage the eardrum and external ear canal, occasionally causing reflex cough or dizziness. If a large foreign body, a sharp foreign body or a deep incarcerated foreign body, it should be removed under general anesthesia if necessary to avoid damage to the eardrum and external ear canal.

The otolaryngologist reminds parents of the child:

Children are curious, pay attention to children's education and careful care when playing in the playground; do not blindly dig up or drip liquids into foreign bodies in the ear if they accidentally enter the ear, avoid pushing the foreign body into the depth to increase the difficulty of removal or damage the eardrum, and timely medical treatment is the key.