What causes ear pain in children?

The healthy growth of children is what parents want to see most. However, in life, many mothers have reported that their babies often feel ear pain. What causes it and will it have any impact on the child's hearing? Today, I will give you a detailed introduction. Let’s learn about some issues related to children’s ear pain!

Earaches can occur in both infants and older children, but sometimes they present in different ways. Infants often cry and become irritable because they cannot express their feelings; however, older children can accurately describe the location and time of their ear pain. From the perspective of the causes of the disease, most of them are caused by inflammation. For example, colds, nasal congestion or other febrile infectious diseases can induce acute tympanitis, otitis media, etc. Babies often develop inflammation due to milk spillage, dirty water entering their ears during bathing, etc.

For older children, we should also consider injuries such as ear picking or insertion of foreign objects, which may cause inflammation or furuncle of the external auditory canal and lead to severe ear pain. There are also cases of ear pain caused by cerumen blockage or swelling and infection of the ears due to water entering the ears during swimming. The pain of the latter is often accompanied by pulling pain of the auricle or tenderness of the tragus, and you may even see redness and swelling of the auricle and ear opening. Children refuse to touch their ears, which is also the difference between the pain of external otitis (furuncle) and acute otitis media. Once acute otitis media starts to discharge pus, the disease will improve or subside, but it is not cured. Therefore, if you have the above-mentioned ear pain, it is recommended to go to the ENT department of a general hospital or maternal and child health care hospital for timely diagnosis and examination.

Through the above introduction, everyone should now be clear. If there are so many painful symptoms, we also need to judge according to the child’s age and specific manifestations. Parents must not blindly give their children medicine. The editor recommends that everyone go to the hospital for a detailed examination before receiving treatment.