Symptoms: itching or clogging of ear can; discharge from ear canal; pain; fever; swollen and tender lymph nodes
Home care:
To relieve pain, give aspirin or paracetamol and apply warm compresses to the outside of the ear.
Try to prevent swimmer’s ear in a susceptible child by drying the ear canals after each swimming session; to do this, place a few drops of rubbing alcohol or glycerin in each ear.
After administering any ear drops, keep the child’s head tilted for a little while so that the drops can penetrate deeply into the ear canal.
- Severe pain, fever, or swollen glands, or failure to respond to home treatment within a few days indicate that the child should see a doctor.
- Earplugs of iamb’s wool coated with petroleum jelly keep water out better than rubber plugs and can be made at home.
- Never clean inside a child’s ear canal.
Irritation or infection of the ear canal is known as swimmer’s ear. Swimmer’s ear may arise from a middle ear infection that has caused the eardrum to rupture and allowed infected material (pus) to drain into the outer canal. The condition can also occur if an injury to the ear canal becomes infected. Usually, however, swimmer’s ear is caused by swimming in fresh water or pools. Frequent and sustained moisture in the ear softens, swells, and cracks the ear canal, allowing germs to penetrate the canal and cause infection.
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