This routine bedtime hurt thousands of children every year

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It is a bed and shared bath time routine, despite warnings from pediatricians and the labeling of products continues to thousands of children to send emergency room per day each year about 34 children.

Even worse, can cause the treatment as balance disorders, facial palsy to look serious permanent damage, wait, hearing loss and dizziness, researchers say.

This habit of routine that may seem harmless enough? Clean your child's ears with cotton swabs. And if you you're not doing their children can have their hands on cotton pads and decided her to sit in her ears, because they saw you do it. But the least bad angle or too much pressure can have serious consequences, according to published a study in the journal Pediatrics .

About two out of three patients were under 8 and under 3 years, which represents 40 percent of all children injuries. Swabs can cause serious injury or pressure wax or other contaminants deeper into the ear canal or puncture the eardrum. The most common injury in children under 8 years is a perforated eardrum.

While ear wax is normal and actually protects the ear, studies of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Foundation and the cervix - operation showed that 90 percent of people still think they need their own ears or ears clean their children. But in the end children the most common reason for emergency room is an obstacle of the ear canal or a perforated eardrum, according to an analysis of data from the national surveillance system of electronic injuries.

How does a smear have cotton in your ear injury, most come in cleaning his ears, but a significant amount of children in 20 percent is injured by playing with cotton swabs or below. Most of these accidents occur when children are in the control of cotton buds, but parents are also responsible for accidental injuries about 16 percent of cases.

Your best best? Release swab ear for cleaning the ears are self-cleaning. And if necessary, you can use a regular cotton ball to clean the outside of the ear canal. But you should definitely on the best ways to hear your pediatrician to keep their children clean ears, so you can avoid to end up in the room of emergencies .

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