What's the harm of pulling out your baby's ears with a cotton swab

When some mothers see their children's ears dirty, they want to clean them up. They will take out their children's ears with cotton swabs. Does this have an impact on their children? There are 4 major hazards in pulling out your baby's ears with commonly used cotton swabs! One day, I found that my sister was pulling out her baby's ears, so I stopped her immediately. She was very puzzled because she thought there was too much earwax in the baby's ears, which affected the baby's hearing and was very unsanitary. See here, think of all mothers, there should be a lot of mothers do not know the role of earwax to protect the baby. So, today, I'll help my mom tell them about pulling out their ears ~ what many people don't know is that earwax is good for babies:

1. Earwax can clean the ear canal
Cerumen, the scientific name of earwax, can be attached to the ear canal to protect the external ear canal. At the same time, it will adhere to foreign dust and local skin metabolites, which can clean the ear canal.
2. Earwax can kill bacteria
Earwax contains fatty acids, which will form an acid film on the surface of the ear canal, so that the ear canal is in an acidic environment, which can play a role of mild sterilization.
3. Earwax can protect the eardrum and tympanic membrane
It can prevent foreign bodies from entering the ear and protect the eardrum and eardrum. Even if a small insect enters the ear canal, it will escape immediately under the obstruction of earwax.
4. Earwax can protect hearing
As we all know, the bearing capacity of the ear is limited. After being stimulated by strong sound waves, it will cause damage to the tympanic membrane. Long term damage to the eardrum can cause hearing loss. Therefore, earwax can reduce the impact of sound waves and protect hearing.
5. Ear wax can prevent infectious diseases

Bath water is a dirty thing, but the baby is very restless when taking a bath. In this way, dirty water is easy to enter the ears. At this time, earwax is like "soil", which can absorb dirty water and prevent it from entering the ear, so as to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.

The harm of often pulling out the baby's ears:
1. Damage the skin of external auditory canal, cause infection, or scratch back and forth, so that bacteria squeeze into hair follicles, causing inflammation and other symptoms;
2. Often pulling out the ears will cause irritation to the skin of the external auditory canal, resulting in increased secretion of earwax, which will increase the number of pulling out the ears.
3.Often pulling out the ear will cause chronic inflammation, stimulate the tympanic membrane and cause pus from the external auditory canal.
4. If you accidentally pull out your ears, you may pierce the eardrum. In particular, many mothers think that the ear scoop is too hard and sharp, which will scratch the baby's ear canal, so they choose to clean the baby's ear canal with a Cotton Swab. In fact, this is a very wrong practice.
The volume of the cotton swab is too large and the baby's ear canal is too thin. Pushing the cotton swab to the ear canal will not clean the baby's ear canal, but will push the earwax deep into the ear, resulting in earplugs. Therefore, mothers do not use cotton swabs to pull out the baby's ears. Cotton swabs can only clean the earwax around the ear holes. For how to clean the child's ear canal, the mother can take the child to find professional cleaning personnel to clean the child's ear canal, so as to really clean the baby's ear canal and protect the baby.