Do you know what you should never do if your ear hurts? Let's tell.
Children's otitis media, unfortunately, is not a rare thing. But if diagnosis has not yet been placed, and the child simply complains of pain in the ear - what can you do and what can you not?
In no case should you:
In no case should you:
- warm your ear
- drip something into it
- blow your nose hard
That is, all folk methods of treatment and "grandmother's methods" that prescribe warming your ears or dripping something into them cannot be used.
What urgently needs to be done:
- see a doctor
- drip vasoconstrictor drops into the nose
- cover your ear with a hat or scarf
What can be done:
- give paracetamol or ibuprofen for pain relief for severe pain
- provide the child with peace, let him lie down
- distract with positive emotions
- child less than 3 months
- ear hurts very badly
- pains moderately, but more than 3 hours
- it hurts slightly, but more than a day
- there is a suspicion that a foreign object has got into the ear
- head or neck hurts at the same time
- other family members have ear pain
- pain prevents sleep or makes breathing difficult
- pain is not relieved by painkillers or, on the contrary, increases.
In all these cases, you need to urgently seek medical attention without self-medication, because any delay can be dangerous to the health and life of the child.
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