Why does the child have earaches?
Because of the peculiar structure of the ENT organs, babies are often prone to otitis or, in other words, inflammation of the middle ear. This area is behind the eardrum, and it is impossible to see it with the naked eye.
The cavity of the middle ear is connected by the Eustachian tube with the nasopharynx of the child. In babies it is short and wide, which allows microbes very quickly from the sick neck or stuffy nose to move in the ear to the baby.
In addition, sufficiently weak immune system of the baby, constant pharyngitis and tonsillitis, adenoids and other troubles is an excellent occasion for the development of inflammation of the middle ear, accompanied by acute shooting pain. The older the child becomes, the longer and thinner this passage becomes, which makes it practically impossible for the infection to enter the ear in this way.
In addition to otitis, a baby may have pain in the ears after bathing, walking in cold windy weather without a headdress, in an airplane. In this case, no instillation is required, painful sensations will pass by themselves within half an hour.
Some children may experience sulfur plugs that can not be removed by themselves. Pain from them is similar to otitis, but not so intense. The baby should be shown to a doctor who knows how to take off the pain when the child's ear becomes ill. He will wash the aching ear and prescribe anti-inflammatory droplets. In order to avoid relapse, with such a child should regularly come to a routine examination with ENT.
Than to treat a pain in an ear at the child?
Ear cannulas are not compared to anything else. Probably, every adult at least once in my life experienced these sensations. In a small child, the pain in the ear is often accompanied by fever, which further exacerbates the picture of the disease.
If the baby is sick at night, and you can ask for medical help only after waiting for the morning, then any mom should be ready and know what to do when the child has pain in the ear.
The patient's ear needs heat. To do this, use alcohol compresses, which are insulated with a thick layer of cotton wool and parchment paper. In the auricle, the patient is bored with a warm boric alcohol or liquid paraffin oil. Thus it is necessary to delay earlobes, that the product has got on purpose.
After this, the child should lie in the position on the side for about 10 minutes. Further in the ear canal insert a cotton turundochku. After such procedures, painful sensations tend to dull and ease the pain in the ear in a child quite realistically even at home.
For this, each batch cabinet should always contain boric alcohol 3% and vaseline oil. A very good remedy for the removal of acute pain - drops of Otipax. But it should be remembered that all these drugs, although they relieve symptoms, but do not cure. And if the baby is better, you should still go to an appointment with the children's ENT for further treatment.
With pain in the ears, the child always receives an antibiotic as a treatment. Refuse it should not be, as an untreated infection, can hide inside and become chronic, and cause irreversible changes inside the auricle - adhesions, rupture of the tympanic membrane.