Should I clean my baby's ears with cotton swabs every day after bathing?

Actually, there is no need to clean earwax, the earwax will be automatically pushed out by the body. We only clean it when water gets into the ear, or when milk vomits into the ear.

The ear canal is slightly sloping outwards and downwards. In addition, the part near the ear opening has ear hairs and two glands, the hair glands and the earwax glands, to protect the ear. When dust or dirt enters the ear, the earwax glands secrete fluid to keep them outside the ear and prevent them from going deeper. Then, the ear hairs will slowly push them out of the ear opening. Therefore, there is no need to remove earwax, but the earwax will be automatically pushed out by the body.

If it is difficult to remove, do not try to remove it, but use saline or glycerinborate for a few days to soften the earwax and let it flow out by itself, or if you have to remove it, it will be easier and less painful for the baby. If the earwax is deep in the ear, do not try to remove it, but go to an ENT doctor to have it removed for the baby.

Many mothers have the habit (even adults often have this habit) of using a cotton swab to clean their child's ear canal after bathing. If we clean the ear like this often, we accidentally push a little earwax deeper each time. Earwax located on the outside is not painful to remove, but earwax located deep inside is very painful to remove.

Our ear canal consists of two parts: the inner part is the bony ear canal and the outer part is the cartilaginous ear canal. When removing earwax in the cartilaginous ear canal area, it does not hurt, many people still feel itchy, but when it starts to touch the bony ear canal area, it is very painful. When we clean our own ears, we never go deeper, because if it hurts, we stop, but if we clean the ears of our children, or other people, we do not know when to stop, when we reach the point of pain, the person whose ear is being cleaned may have a reflex to move their head, which can easily cause injury to the ear canal or eardrum.

In addition, using cotton swabs to clean your ears every day will cause the ear hair to fall out, damaging the function of pushing dirt out of the ear canal, causing more frequent otitis externa or earwax buildup.

Only when water gets into the baby's ear, or when milk vomits into the ear, do you need to use a cotton swab to clean it. Normally, after bathing the baby, you only need to dry the ear rim and the area in front of the ear./.

According to SKDS