Not really, stop their kids Cleaning & # 39; Ears with cotton swabs

As we have already said, not put cotton - to clean earphones to the wax.

If you are not convinced, consider this: 1990-2010, there were more than 263,000 visits to emergency rooms in the United States for ear cleaning childhood injuries. This corresponds to about 34 visitors per day.

Researchers at the National Children's Hospital in Ohio level analyzed data from visiting the Emergency Services National Electronic Injury Surveillance in 100 hospitals across the country. Hospitals are using different codes to indicate why patients to make the trip; Researchers reviewed in children all codes for ear injuries Watten participation - tribes, cotton or cotton appliers swabs (cotton - Staff ironic common brand particularly puts on the hat to her in the ear bonding.) The results scaled then set the number of more than 5,300 assess hospitals to represent the whole country, and published their work in the Journal of Pediatrics, on May 1st.

The ear injury most commonly hyssop that patients in the emergency room bleeding ear, often caused by a ruptured eardrums. The second biggest complaint was foreign body syndrome, feels a state in which, like something stuck in a hole (not limited in the ears). Two years the highest number of injuries in the ear swab and the number of visits had decreased for these injuries in general, when the children were older.

Almost three quarters of these injuries were attempts failed to clean the ear. Most of the time trying to hurt the children to clean their own ears, but parents or guardians were often guilty cause hearing loss. (So ​​brothers and sisters about 7% of the time).

But clean the ear should not be part of the hygiene person regime. "The ear canals are self-cleaning in general. Applicators Cotton use the ear canal expresses not only to clean the closest to the drum of the ear wax "Kris Jatana, a doctor at the main National Children's Hospital and author of the study, in a statement .

On the side, there were fewer injuries in time; The researchers estimate that there are approximately 17,500 emergency room visits in 2001 year and in 2010 were about 12 900. No further data in the last few years were because the national surveillance system of electronic injury stopped coding swab injury, making them harder to track. Perhaps the organization think longingly finally human Q-tips put in places stop, where they belong.

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