Ear digging may cause earache, damage to the external auditory canal and secondary boils.
1. Earache: The subcutaneous tissue in the outer ear canal of children is thinner than that of adults, and the distribution of sensory nerves is relatively more dense, so when the force of ear digging is too heavy or when children are unconscious of their head activities, it is easy to cause obvious earache, which will cause children to cry.
2. External auditory canal injury: children laughing and shaking their heads during the process of ear-digging can often lead to damage to the external auditory canal by ear-digging instruments, resulting in bleeding, edema and secondary infection.
3. Boils on the external auditory canal: When ear digging leads to the destruction of the local surface acidic environment of the external auditory canal skin and damage to the skin stratum corneum barrier, it can lead to bacterial infections, inflammation of the hair follicles, sebaceous glands, and other structures and the formation of boils on the external auditory canal.
When children often have the habit of digging their ears, they should be corrected in a timely manner, and can actively consult a doctor for a systematic examination to determine whether there is a cause of the disease, and then follow the doctor’s instructions to standardize the treatment to avoid frequent digging of the ears, which can cause the above mentioned hazards.