1, hot compress earache.
Children's ears hurt, and hot towels can be applied to their ears in the early stage, which can dilate blood vessels and relieve ear pressure and pain. The specific method is: put the towel in warm water, wring it out (make sure it won't drip), apply it to the child's ear, keep it for 3-5 minutes, and then change the towel.
2. Press ear points to relieve pain.
When the child's ear pain is unbearable, parents can press the child's ear points. This point is one of the important points for the treatment of various ear diseases, which has the effects of reducing turbidity, clearing away heat and activating collaterals, and has a certain curative effect on relieving the pain of otitis media and otitis externa.
The auricular point is located in front of the ear, in front of the notch on the tragus, slightly above the ear bead, and there is a depression at the opening. You can gently press your fingers with your index finger or thumb.
Step 3 Adjust posture to relieve pain
If lying down will aggravate the pain in the child's ear, you can let the child sit and support his head with several pillows to relieve the pressure on the ear and help relieve the pain; Remind children to swallow often to relieve the pressure on their ears. If the child is over 5 years old, he can be allowed to chew gum. In addition, remind your child to open his mouth when blowing his nose. If he closes his mouth, it will increase the pressure on his ears.
4. drop the medicine into the ear canal to relieve the pain
Dropping drugs into the ear canal is an important method to relieve pain and control ear inflammation. Antibiotic ear drops can directly act on local lesions to achieve anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. If the child has pus in his ear, he should first clean the ear canal with 3% hydrogen peroxide, and then drop the medicine.
It should be noted that the ear drops should be used after the doctor has examined the ears, and should not be used by yourself. People with ruptured eardrums should not be washed and smeared with ear drops, nor should they blow their noses.
5. Pinch your nose and inflate it.
If the child feels stuffy and earache, it is mostly caused by eustachian tube obstruction. At this time, you can use the method of pinching your nose to inflate. Let the child take a deep breath, then hold the nostril, and then blow into the back of the nasal cavity through the mouth, as if to blow off the fingers holding the nose and keep it for more than ten seconds. This method can balance the pressure inside and outside the ear, make the eustachian tube unobstructed and relieve earache.
6. Symptomatic treatment
Earache in children can be seen in otitis externa, furuncle of external auditory canal and otitis media, among which otitis media is the most common, with obvious discharge of secretions from external auditory canal and pain in the ear, which sometimes affects normal hearing. You need to go to the hospital to make a clear diagnosis of the disease, choose sensitive antibiotics for your child under the guidance of a doctor, treat it fundamentally and relieve the pain.
7. Causes of children's earache
1, auricular neuralgia: There are many nerves around the ear. When stimulated by excessive noise or unknown reasons, there will be bouts of earache.
2, otitis externa: When the ear is uncomfortable and itchy, some people like to dig in the ear with nails, hair clips, wool needles, short sticks, matchsticks, etc. If you dig too hard or get hit by someone, it is easy to puncture the skin of the ear canal, causing skin infection and inflammation. This disease not only has earache, but also may be accompanied by bleeding.
3, ear herpes: this is related to viral infection. It is more common on the auricle, causing earache like acupuncture or burning, which is very uncomfortable. A few people may also be accompanied by facial paralysis, hearing loss, nausea and vomiting.
4. Eartumor: When there is malignant swelling in the ear canal or middle ear cavity, with the development of the disease, the malignant swelling infiltrates into the surrounding tissues, and besides bleeding in the ear canal and hearing loss, there will be different degrees of earache.
5. Furuncle of external auditory canal: When otitis externa is not treated in time, or when the ear canal skin is old and weak, suffering from diabetes, or when the ear canal skin is soaked in water for a long time, the skin surface resistance is weakened, it is prone to ear canal furuncle. Furuncle will gradually swell and fester, blocking the ear canal and aggravating the pain.
6. Acute otitis media: When bacterial suppurative infection occurs in the middle ear cavity, pus is increasing. When the pain-sensitive tympanic membrane is directly pressed, it will cause ear pain, which may present pulsatile pain with the pulse beating.