What to do if your baby’s eardrum is dug out

Baby eardrum digging broken clinically known as traumatic tympanic membrane perforation, clinical often through general treatment or surgical treatment, in order to prevent secondary infection, generally do not use medication.
1. general treatment: you can use alcohol to wipe the baby’s external auditory canal to disinfect, and at the same time to remove foreign bodies and clots, etc., placed in the mouth of the ear canal disinfectant cotton balls, to ensure that the ear canal is clean, dry, avoid water, in order to avoid secondary infection.
2. Surgical treatment: If the tympanic membrane perforation caused by the baby’s eardrum digging out does not heal for a long time or the perforation is large, surgical repair can be carried out, such as tympanoplasty, but it may cause damage to the inner ear after the operation, so the patient is advised to have more observation and follow-up examinations, etc.
It is recommended that patients seek timely medical treatment, targeted treatment under the guidance of a doctor, the above drugs need to be used under the guidance of a doctor.