Four-month-old babies scratching their ears all the time may be a normal phenomenon, or it may be caused by other reasons such as insect bite dermatitis, cerumen impaction, and eczema of the external ear canal.
1. Normal phenomenon: four-month-old babies always scratching their ears may be due to curiosity about the outside world or imitation of other people, which is a normal phenomenon, and no measures can be taken to treat it.
2. Insect bite dermatitis: insect bite dermatitis is considered to be caused by mites, mosquitoes, bedbugs and other insect bites, the patient will appear wind, small blisters, pimples, papules, itching and other manifestations. If a four-month-old baby’s ear develops insect bite rhinitis, there will be itching, and at this time the baby may relieve the symptoms by scratching the ear.
3. Cerumen impaction: Cerumen impaction may be caused by excessive secretion of cerumen and obstruction of cerumen discharge. Patients may have symptoms such as tinnitus, hearing loss, earache and vertigo. If a four-month-old baby suffers from cerumen embolism, he or she will show symptoms of ear scratching when feeling ear pain or tinnitus.
4. Other: four babies appear old scratching ears also consider the external auditory canal eczema, otitis externa, external auditory canal foreign body and other causes.
Four months baby old scratching ears, there may be other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time, improve the examination to clarify the cause, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or treatment.