In general, parents are not recommended to handle earwax by themselves for infants and children under 3 weeks old. If there is a lot of earwax, which affects the hearing, they should go to the ENT department of a regular hospital.
Under normal circumstances, earwax in infants’ ears do not need special treatment, because the mucous membrane and eardrum of infants’ ear canals are more fragile, and infants’ earwax, especially white flaky earwax, can play a role in lubricating the ear canals, buffering the sound waves, preventing pathogenic bacterial infections and so on, and play a role in protecting the ear canals, and can generally fall off by themselves without having to do any special cleanup.
If the baby’s ear is uncomfortable, you can use a cotton swab dipped in an appropriate amount of warm water to clean the auricle and external auditory canal, to relieve the symptoms can be, can not use cotton swabs or any other substances into the ear canal, easy to cause damage to the eardrum; if the earwax secretion of the earwax is more, and more black, hard earwax, you should go to the hospital in time to consult a professional doctor to take out.
In conclusion, earwax in infants need not be handled without any special circumstances, and can be cleaned regularly on their own after the age of 3, but it needs to be done under regular guidance.