What if my baby has an earache? Pain in the ears appear when foreign bodies get into them, at the first signs of a cold, after bathing. At the child in the age of 3 years ears are exposed to an infection. With any catarrhal disease, a mild inflammation of the ear appears. When a child complains of pain in the ear, it is urgent to show the doctor, as these pains do not pass by themselves.
Pain in the ear in the baby
What should I do if the child has an earache at night, and there is no way to see a doctor? The child will not be able to "suffer until the morning," since "shooting" pain causes great suffering. Some parents use boric alcohol to relieve pain in the ears. This is wrong, because they do not know if the eardrum is broken or not, and if you take and dribble boric alcohol, this will lead to complications.
If a child has an earache at night, you need to give him first aid, put on the warming compress. To do this, take a napkin or five layers of gauze, then moisten it with a solution of vodka and water in a ratio of 1: 1. Around the ear we grease with a baby cream or petroleum jelly and put a pressed napkin in the ear, so that the auricle and auditory canal are open. We cut out the circle from the compress paper, we make a cut inside it and put it on the ear. From above put a layer of cotton wool and fix it with a bandage. We hold for one hour. If there is nothing to make a compress, warm your ear, apply a piece of cotton to your ear, so that the whole ear is closed, and we'll tie a handkerchief on top. Be aware, if purulent discharge is released from the ear or the child has a fever, then we do not conduct warming procedures.
If the child has a temperature, then we moisten the tampon in boron alcohol and insert it into the ear. Then we put cotton wool. Boric alcohol is not heated, because when heated, the components evaporate, and it will not bring any benefit. When the pain subsides, you should urgently go to the doctor in the morning. Without the doctor's prescription, do not bury the child with drops on alcohol, they will burn the mucous membrane.
If a child has a runny nose, you need to get rid of it immediately, it will lead to pain in the ears. Pain in the ears can be after bathing. To prevent this from happening, you need to dry your ears after bathing. They can be dried with a hair dryer, cotton swab, tampon. The dryer dries its ears, for this purpose send a warm jet of air, only not scalding air in the ear of the baby, for 30 seconds at a distance of 50 cm.
It helps very much after bathing with pain in the ears, if the heat soothes the pain. In the towel wrap the bottle with hot water and put it to your ear. Or we will remove the pain in the ears with the help of cotton swabs, which we will moisten with alcohol, but not in vodka, we will squeeze well and put into the ear, but not deeply. Do not remove often earwax, because it feeds beneficial bacteria and protects the ear from the ear.