Why lays the ear in the child?

Inflammation of the ear in a child is called otitis. As a rule, it develops when the runny nose is improperly or untimely treated. But this is not the only reason. The disease can begin after hypothermia, due to the activation or transfer of pathogenic microflora from another focus of infection into the ear cavity. Newborn children suffer from otitis media when the amniotic fluid enters the auditory tube. The main sign of the appearance of the pathological process in the ear is pain.

Some parents, not knowing how to describe the sensations of the child with otitis, ask: "What if the child's ear" shoots "?". Others say: "The child" pawns "the ear, what to do about it?". All these expressions are a description of the same problem - ear pain. It can be piercing, pressing or shooting, can be accompanied by stuffiness in the ears and hearing loss. Sometimes the ear pain is poorly expressed, and therefore the baby does not always pay attention to it. If the otitis only begins, the child will feel a slight discomfort, and say that he just "pawns" the ear. Do not dismiss it, and think that it will pass. Everything can end badly, therefore, if a child "lays an ear", you need to try to show his ENT doctor as soon as possible.

This disease often raises the temperature. It can reach 38-39 degrees. Sometimes there is vomiting and a headache.

Determine the situation simply when the child is able to explain to his mother, where and how he hurts. Worse, if a newborn or baby is sick. In children of this age, the signs of any diseases are nonspecific, i.e. Coincide with the symptoms of other diseases. In this case, Mom should be very careful and, noticing some of the features of the child's behavior, determine that it is his ear that is bothering him. The baby begins to be capricious, can not fall asleep, but falls asleep, often wakes up, shakes his head rhythmically and cries. When you try to take the chest, he abruptly throws it and starts screaming. A four-month-old baby can easily reach out to a sick ear or rub it against a bed. That's when my mother and I must assume that the baby "pawns" the ear. Small children, getting sick with otitis, often tilt their head, and a large fontanel begins to swell. A very serious symptom of otitis is the appearance of purulent discharge from the ear.

Otitis is divided into inner, middle and outer. The most dangerous of these is the internal otitis media. It causes suppuration and melting of the auditory ossicles, which are responsible for conducting the sound. This process ends with deafness.

Otitis treatment is not always the same. It depends on the stage of the inflammatory process and the age category of the child. The younger he is, the more seriously one should treat otitis treatment of any severity. As a rule, with an easy flow, the otolaryngologist writes out ear antiseptic drops, vasoconstrictors for the nose, and drugs to reduce the pain syndrome. A good curative effect, provided normal body temperature, will have warming procedures (compresses and warming up in various ways).

With a more pronounced inflammatory process, it will be necessary to take antibacterial drugs, as well as to conduct medical micro-operations (for example, opening the tympanic membrane and washing the ear cavity with anti-inflammatory solutions).

How to help the child, if one day he complains that it flows from the nose, and the ear hurts and "pawns"? In this case, you need to act like this:

1. Give the child an anesthetic - paracetamol or ibuprofen.
2. To drip a nose vasoconstrictive drops, paying attention to concentration of a preparation.
3. Show his ENT to the doctor.

If you are not well versed in this, it is better not to treat yourself.