After returning home from the hospital, we began to enter a long state of dads and nannies. On the whole, it feels good.
I worked with my mother in a division of labor. Although my mother gave birth smoothly without lateral incision and recovered well, after all, she was just discharged from the hospital after giving birth and still could not let her overwork. Therefore, I tried not to let her hold more. At night, I basically got up to change diapers and nurse the child and did not let her get up.
However, there is nothing to show off. Who let us quit our job and become unemployed? (See the previous article here for specific reasons.)
During the day, I also regarded it as [I died after all my efforts], because I think, I can’t be a father several times in my life, and I have to experience the ups and downs before my life is complete.
The baby’s ears suddenly ran out of water!
With the central idea of “can’t keep my mother tired”, I am very active in the physical work of bathing my baby most of the time. However, when bathing my baby, I encountered a big problem, that is, how can I completely avoid water in my ears?
At first, I didn’t take this matter to heart either. I didn’t want to. A few days later, I found a little yellowish scab outside the baby’s right ear. Besides, I gently touched the external auditory canal with a thin cotton swab and touched the cotton swab with liquid.
This frightened me. My first reaction was: Don’t be otitis media! Is it caused by water in my ear when I was taking a bath? ! Moreover, it seems that the baby’s crying frequency has also increased recently, and it is often seen that the baby is swinging around the ear with his right hand. Do you feel uncomfortable in the ear?
It’s not too late to take the child to the doctor.
Finally, it was confirmed that eczema caused the baby’s ears to run water. After seeing it, the doctor said that there was no big problem with what and sent me away after prescribing some medicine. However, eczema can grow into the ears, which is really an increase in knowledge.
It turns out that many reasons can cause yellow water in ears.
Although relieved, but still not happy. In line with the positive and studious attitude of nip in the bud, I searched some books and found that so many reasons may lead to baby ears flowing water, small ears still have so much knowledge.
I summarized several reasons I found to give my parents a reference.
1. Oily cerumen
Is commonly known as [oil ear], the secretion inside the ear is too much, may have yellow, oily sticky substance outflow, also will dry around the ear scabs. If secretion is too much to block the ear, may also affect the baby’s hearing, need to go to the hospital by the doctor to take it out.
Parents should not pick out their children’s ears by themselves. The baby’s ear canal is narrower than that of adults, and the skin immunity is more fragile. Improper ear picking by parents may damage the ear canal and cause infection. If the ear canal is damaged, the hearing of the child will also be affected.
I have seen parents dig their children’s ears in the hospital. I really don’t understand why so many parents are so happy to dig their children’s ears…
2. Ear eczema
This is the disease of my baby, and this is the first time I have heard that eczema can also grow in my ears.
However, in those days, the baby also developed some eczema on the corresponding side of his face, and liquid oozed out of his ears.
3. Otitis externa
When a child takes a bath or swims, bacteria and other germs enter the ear with the water flow and are not cleaned up in time. The germs multiply and cause otitis externa, which may also lead to yellow water flow.
4. Otitis media
This seems to be a more serious one.
Improper breast-feeding posture, such as letting the baby lie flat on the back to drink milk (side lying is OK), milk may flow into the middle ear through the short and wide eustachian tube, causing otitis media and causing running water in the baby’s ears. If there is bacterial infection, it may also flow out of [yellow water] or [pus].
In addition, when swimming, the water in the swimming pool is very tolerant to enter the nasal cavity and mouth, It is also possible to enter the middle ear through nasopharynx and cause otitis media. Now many parents tend to let their babies learn to swim, but in fact, infants under one year old cannot master the necessary swimming skills and survival skills in water, which is not only easy to drown, but also increases the risk of otitis media.
The guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics do not recommend infants under 1 year old to learn swimming. However, whether infants aged 1 to 4 years old learn swimming should also be decided after comprehensive evaluation based on infants’ body, psychology and reaction to water.
Otitis media, if not treated in time, may develop into chronic otitis media, which is in trouble and may cause permanent damage to the baby’s hearing.
Suggestions for wet nurses and dads
1. See a doctor! See a doctor! See a doctor!
Although I have checked a lot above, it seems that as long as it is not particularly serious, the handling method is not difficult.
However, we are not professionals. We really can’t judge whether the information found on the Internet is true or not. We believe too much that we don’t know how to rely on unreliable information, which is likely to be self-defeating and delay the baby’s illness.
Therefore, once the baby has problems, it is the safest way to seek the help of a professional doctor.
2. Hydrogen peroxide clean
According to the survey, this method is also a relatively common one.
After my little tomato went to the hospital, the doctor said that ear eczema was very common and did not need special treatment. The only medicine prescribed to me was a bottle of hydrogen peroxide (hydrogen peroxide) with a concentration of 3%. Let me drop it into the child’s ear twice a day and then clean up the liquid and other impurities.
According to the doctor’s advice, it was quite effective for the baby to drip for a few days. However, the baby is not very cooperative, after all, it is not a special entrance to water.
Therefore, I usually let my mother put the ears of running water up when I was nursing, and dripped a little hydrogen peroxide into it with a dropper. As a result, it was amazing and a little fun: after dripping hydrogen peroxide into it, white bubbles slowly poured up from the ears, slowly rubbing the baby’s ear root, and gradually overflowing some white solids.
A few minutes later, I will use thin cotton swabs to clean up the liquid and white solid. Twice a day, after 3 or 4 days, it will be much better.
3. Try to keep your child’s sick ears down
On the premise of safety, when holding the child, let the ears of the child’s running water face down as much as possible, let the liquid flow out as much as possible under the action of gravity, and keep the ears clean and dry as much as possible.
Step 4 Keep your ears dry
This is more difficult. Babies crying and spitting milk may cause liquid to flow into their ears, so parents should be extra careful and check frequently.
Especially when taking a bath, experienced nurses or doctors will fold their ears with both hands to wash the baby’s hair to ensure that the ears do not enter the water. However, it is a little difficult to meet mothers with small hands or inexperienced dads and nannies.
Because the baby will not cooperate obediently, it will move excitedly or nervously. One hand should not only control the baby’s head and cover his ears to keep the baby’s balance in the water, but also lift the water to take a bath with the other hand, which is still relatively difficult to do in one step.
But don’t worry, I found a waterproof earmuff on a treasure. Parents can buy some to try if they have some problems in this area.
The above suggestions are not necessarily comprehensive, but are only based on experience, although they have been verified by certain theories. However, it is still the same sentence that doctors are our most authoritative helpers, and it is the most important thing to deal with the abnormal situation of babies in a timely manner in strict accordance with the doctor’s advice.