Guide to hearing protection for children!

When you are ready to start a happy trip, after a long time of security check, waiting and airport traffic control that can’t be finished, and finally take off, the bear children outside the next / front / back / 18th row seats begin to cry continuously and loudly… Do you have an impulse to open the cabin and throw him / her out?

If you meet a bear child, you may have to admit that you are unlucky. However, once you don’t cry for your face, isn’t the scene very embarrassing…

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But Jinghao wants to say:

It’s not necessarily because of the bear. It’s probably because of the baby’s earache!

Why does the ear ache when flying?

This is because the air pressure changes too much and too fast in the process of climbing and landing, and the air pressure changes inside and outside the eardrum are uneven, resulting in the extrusion of the eardrum.

Each person’s physical conditions are different, and their response to air pressure is different, so some people may not feel it, some may feel it strongly, and even need medical treatment.

For children, because the eustachian tube of children has not developed well, the eardrum is thinner than that of adults, the pressure they can bear is much smaller, and it is more likely to cause discomfort. Therefore, during the flight, parents should pay special attention to the take-off and landing time of the aircraft, take correct and effective measures to let the baby open the eustachian tube, reduce the discomfort and prevent the occurrence of aero otitis media.

The following methods can help relieve the pain in the child’s ears: when the aircraft takes off and lands, let the child have breast milk or feed him with a milk bottle, or let the baby hold a pacifier, let the child continue to swallow. Both sucking and swallowing can make the eustachian tube expand, maintain the pressure balance inside and outside the tympanic membrane, and reduce the pressure inside the ear, so as to avoid the child The child’s ears cried with pain.

For older children, parents can teach them to achieve stress balance by chewing gum, eating, drinking, yawning, etc.

In addition, try not to let the child sleep at this stage, because the possibility of eardrum injury is greatly increased during sleep, so when taking off or landing, you must wake up the child from sleep.

I hope everyone can have a pleasant trip~