Due to the structure of the auditory conch, babies are more likely to suffer from otitis media than adults. The problem is that the baby cannot tell his parents what exactly is bothering him. Of course, you should show the child to a pediatrician who will make an accurate diagnosis and prescribe a comprehensive treatment. But how to provide the baby with first aid? How to find out that children's ears hurt; what to do to parents in order to reduce the suffering of crumbs - read about all this in the article.
How to find out what exactly bothers the child? He cries, refuses food, is naughty. An elevated temperature may occur, but this symptom is not an obligatory sign that the children’s ears hurt. What to do to determine that the child is crying not from cutting teeth or gases in the tummy, but from sharp and shooting tingling in the auditory canal? There is a triangular cartilage on the auricle (it is called a tragus). Press lightly on it with your finger. If the baby reacts to this touch with a shudder or scream, it is likely that the ears are bothering him. Snot, cold, sore throat, and even toothache, also often accompany unpleasant sensations in the auditory canal.
There are several reasons why children's ears hurt. What to do depends on the nature of the disease. First of all, it can be a cold: drafts, untreated ARI, runny nose immediately affect the well-being of the middle ear and auditory canals. Also, the cause of the pain can be a viral infection - mumps, tonsillitis. In some cases, otitis media develops when ordinary water gets into your ears while swimming.
Rarely (but still do not discard the likelihood of such a reason from the account) it can be an injury to the eardrum. After all, children often experiment with objects and their bodies: any kid up to 5 years old can cram something into his ear canal.
So, children’s ears hurt: what if a cold is the cause? It is necessary to warm up the auditory canals. This can be done in many ways. For example, using a heating pad (water, electric, a bag of heated salt or sand). You can attach a compress to the big ear - alcohol, vodka. However, in this case, it is important not to burn the mucous membrane: between the channel and a cotton swab there should be a barrier from cellophane or waxed paper. You also need to remember that you can not apply warming at elevated temperatures and purulent discharge from the ear.
Parents who know how to treat childhood diseases understand that first of all they need to save the baby from suffering. Otipax drops not only treat inflammation of the canals, but also have an anesthetic effect. You can also use the drug "Anauran", 1% chloramphenicol alcohol solution , boric alcohol, camphor. Despite the fact that only one ear can hurt in the baby, it is necessary to drip two. First, slightly warm the drug by lowering the vial into a glass of warm water. Then lay the child on the barrel with his healthy ear up, slightly pull back the lobe and pipette the medicine with a pipette. Then repeat the same procedure with a diseased auditory conch.
But if the pain near the ear is caused by an eardrum injury, the above remedies are not good. Moreover, they can only cause complications. In this case, you need to give the child an analgesic in a dosage appropriate for age - analgin, efferalgan, nurofen, ibuprofen. And, of course, in the morning the first thing to visit is the children's ENT.