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

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

The ear canal is slightly sloping outwards and downwards. In addition, near the ear opening, there are ear hairs and two glands, the hair glands and the wax glands, to protect the ear. When dust or dirt enters the ear, the wax 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 the earwax, but the body will automatically push the wax out.

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 on its own, or if you have to remove it, it will be easier and less painful for the baby. If the earwax is deep inside, 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 bit of earwax deeper each time. Earwax that is on the outside is not painful to remove, but earwax that is 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 is not painful, 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 reflexive head movement that 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, leading to damage to the function of pushing dirt out of the ear canal, which can lead to otitis externa or more earwax.

Only when water gets into the baby's ear or when milk vomits into the ear should you 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