Maybe it's a stupid question, but am I supposed to be cleaning my 18mo DD's ears? Everyone from midwives to paediatricians have warned me of the perils of cotton buds so I've never gone near her with one and not really knowing what else to use I've just left her ears as they are, based on the theory that they're pretty much self cleaning (are they?).
However, yesterday a pea sized lump of hard wax fell out of one ear and I do wonder if I should be doing more. All I've ever done up to now is check her ears and whipped the odd blob of soft wax with the long ingernail on my little finger (have alas cut them all short so am now without "tools"). She has never suffered from ear infections or had any bother and her hearing seems to be OK (apart from that selective deafness that seems to afflict all children ).
What does everyone else do?
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Brangelina · 01/03/2007 13:03
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