Baby ears into the water, do not use a cotton swab to pull out, so that the 3 methods are more effective

Usually, when parents bathe and wash their babies' hair, they often encounter the situation that the baby's ears are inlet. Many parents will use cotton swabs to help their children clean the water in their ears, but in fact, this practice is not correct.

After the baby's ear enters the water, the pores of the ear canal skin will open, coupled with the baby's delicate skin in the ear, the external ear canal is mostly flat and slit-like, if the baby does not cooperate, the parents accidentally stab the hard tip of the cotton swab to the eardrum, which may lead to the perforation of the baby's eardrum. Therefore, you can usually wipe the water stains around the opening of the baby's ear canal with a cotton swab, but do not dig the cotton swab deep into the inside of the baby's ear to avoid damaging the eardrum.

If the baby frequently scratches and scratches the ears with his hands, cries for no reason, and the ear feces are sticky and have a little taste, it can basically be judged that the baby's ears are in the water.

If you find that the baby's ears are watery, you must clean it in time, otherwise the water stains will stay in the ear canal, which will make the ear feces soften and expand, causing the ear canal to block.

If it enters dirty water, it will also breed a lot of bacteria, increasing the probability of inflammation. If the baby's ears are not cleaned in time after entering the water, the ear feces are sticky and smelly, and parents should be vigilant, which may be acute otitis media.

How to properly handle water ingress into your baby's ears?

Method one: the baby's ear into the water, you can first let the baby lie on his side on his thigh, the ear on the side of the water is down, press the baby's ear root with the palm of the hand, and then quickly release, several times in a row, the water "sucked" out, you can also use a cotton ball to put it at the mouth of the ear canal to absorb water.

Method 2: Gently press the baby's lips with your fingers, and at the same time let the baby open his mouth, repeating several times in order to move the temporomandibular joint and promote water to flow out of the external auditory canal.

Method three: For older babies, they can be guided to jump up and down, and the water entering the ear canal can flow naturally.

(Henan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Bian Hongen)