What causes excessive earwax in children?

Many parents think that their baby's earwax is harmful to their baby, so they often use utensils such as toothpicks, cotton swabs, ear spoons and other utensils to remove their baby's earwax, and they must be cleaned. You might think there's nothing wrong with that. But do you know that often picking up your baby's ear wax is harmful to your baby's health!

Cerumen in the ear is also called cerumen, which has a protective effect on the eardrum, it can prevent foreign bodies and small insects from directly invading the eardrum, in addition, cerumen contains oil, which can protect the external ear canal. Under normal circumstances, small pieces of earwax formed by dried cerumen can fall out of the ear on their own as they speak, chew, and move their head. Frequent ear waxing can easily cause some undesirable consequences.

Baby's earwax, whose medical name is cerumen, is a light yellow viscous liquid secreted by the cerumen gland of the human external ear canal, which forms a light yellow waxy dry flake or viscous oily substance when exposed to air drying. Cerumen is called earwax, and it is secreted by cerumen glands. The cerumen gland is located in the outer part of the external auditory canal, on the cartilage part of the external auditory canal**.

Baby's earwax is a kind of human secretion, containing fat, stearin, fatty acids, protein, yellow pigment, as well as a small amount of potassium, sodium, chalk, water and other substances. Some cerumen are thinner and oily, commonly known as 'oil ear'. The latter is more common in infants, especially obese infants.

Earwax has the effect of protecting the baby's ears, which is mainly reflected in the following aspects: it falls off on its own with the movement of the jaw joint. home processing; Prevent foreign objects such as dust, moisture, and flying insects from entering your baby's ear canal, thereby protecting your ears.

1 Keeping the external auditory canal clean is the first condition to prevent cerumen impaction. If there are cerumen dandruffs and you feel itchy in the external ear canal, you can use a cotton swab dipped in medical alcohol to gently wipe it, which not only relieves itching but also has the effect of disinfecting and preventing infection. 2 It is best to have a doctor's examination before swimming, and remove the cerumen crumb first to prevent embolism from forming after entering the water.

3 Smaller cerumen are gently removed with a special cerumen hook or with a blunt spoon. If the big cerumen or the child is not cooperative, you can first drop a few days of special cerumen water (generally 3 days, 4 5 times a day, 3 4 drops each time) until the cerumen is soft, crushed, and then rinsed with normal saline. 4 Once cerumen induces inflammation, it should be actively reduced first, and the embolism should be removed as soon as possible to prevent poor drainage and inward spread of inflammation.

Earwax, medically known as earwax. Does it have any features? Should it be dug or not? Let a non-otologist clean up, will there be *** or complications?

Earwax can adsorb dust or small dirty particles, and contains some fatty acids that dissolve and mix with the sebaceous glands, creating a slightly acidic and antibacterial environment. In addition, the external auditory canal** has a function of automatically moving outward, in other words, it can clean and excrete the earwax outward.

Therefore, if the earwax directly touches the eardrum, it can almost be considered artificial, such as squeezing the ear with a cotton swab or other tool. In addition, earwax has the function of waterproof and moisturizing the outer ear canal**, if there is no earwax, the external auditory canal** is dry and itchy.

Of course, there are also some people who have poor earwax discharge function, which is easy to cause earwax embolism, and there will be some symptoms during earwax embolism, such as progressive hearing loss, tinnitus, ear itching, ear fullness, etc., at this time, you need to ask an otolaryngologists to help take it out.

Patients can take a few drops of mineral oil and glycerin before seeking a doctor to clean it up. If hydrogen peroxide is used to inject hydrogen peroxide into the ear, oxygen bubbles will be generated, and the water will remain in the ear, causing infection.

In addition, in addition to earwax embolism, there are other diseases such as epithelial emboli, cholesteatoma of the external auditory canal or middle ear, and foreign bodies that need to be differentiated by a doctor.

1. Ear drops, the main effect of ear drops is to soften stubborn earwax 2. Earwax with more earwax will stick a small amount of earwax to the earbuds and be cleared out of the ear canal 3. Inject warm water.

We can use a cotton swab dipped in a small amount of warm water, and then gently wipe the inside of the baby's ear, if it really can't be removed, you can go to the hospital for professional cleaning.

The external ear canal should be wiped daily with a baby swab, and if it is too much, it should be professionally treated in a hospital.