After watching "Moving China" at home, I was moved to cry by Jiang Mengnan's story!
Jiang Mengnan suffered from acute pneumonia when he was half a year old, but due to improper medication, he was extremely severely neurogenic deafness and complete hearing loss.
Since then, she and her parents have chosen a path of learning by reading "lip language" to practice pronunciation. In 2018, she successfully entered Tsinghua University to pursue a ph.D. in bioinformatics.
According to the "2016 Children's Drug Safety Survey Report White Paper", about 30,000 children in mainland China cause hearing loss due to improper medication every year.
Jiang Mengnan has suffered unimaginably, and while we admire her, we also pay attention to a key message: what is the "drug" that caused her hearing damage? How to avoid "drug deafness"?
Drug deafness is mainly manifested as chronic poisoning of the auditory system, usually with deafness, tinnitus, vertigo, balance disorders and other manifestations.
For children who can't speak, early symptoms are not too easy to identify.
If the child does not cry or make trouble with the medicine, but becomes quiet and becomes sluggish in responding to the sound, he should be vigilant.
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Among the many drugs, [gentamicin] can be said to be a typical representative of hearing damage, and its instructions clearly state: children should use with caution.
Not only is the injection unsafe, but oral and nebulized gentamicin is also risky.
In addition to gentamicin, the following 5 drugs that are easy to cause deafness or hearing damage should also be used with caution!
According to statistics: many of the patients who "cause deafness caused by medication" in the mainland are related to genetic factors. If we do a good job of prevention, we can reduce the likelihood of hearing damage by at least about 60%.
To find out whether a child's hearing is impaired, we need to identify the characteristics of hearing development in babies of different months of age in order to make a judgment.
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If you find that your child's hearing does not meet the developmental certainty, and there are the following 7 abnormal manifestations, you need to be vigilant:
Note that the symptoms of hearing impairment vary from child to child.
If you suspect your baby may have hearing impairment, don't wait! Go to the hospital immediately for a hearing screening.
Hearing screening is generally divided into two types:
Newborn hearing screening
Newborn hearing screening is generally done about 3 days after the baby is born, and the initial screening of ear acoustic emission is done.
If not passed, binaural re-screening is performed on day 42;
If you do not pass, you should refer to the designated hearing diagnosis center as soon as possible within the age of 3 months.
Regular hearing screening for children
6, 12, 24 and 36 months of age is the focus of children's hearing screening, and any period of time that does not pass the hearing screening should be referred in time.
Hearing screening is generally examined in pediatrics or ENT, and the settings of different cities may vary, depending on the examination hospital.
In addition to congenital factors and medication, there are many small things in life that we can't be careless about.
Often pluck the ears of the baby
Under normal circumstances, the baby does not need to pluck the ear, our ear canal has a self-cleaning function, ear feces will be discharged with the baby eating, talking, yawning and other jaw movements.
Often unauthorized to the baby's ear, not only will lead to more and more ear feces, but also easy to damage the external ear canal, trigger infection, seriously cause perforation of the eardrum, affecting hearing.
If you want to clean up the ear feces, you must not do it yourself, you can send it directly to the hospital to unlock the hidden service!
Long-term inhalation of second-hand smoke and third-hand smoke
A number of Studies in the United Kingdom have found that otitis media, middle ear effusion, and abnormal tympanic membrane tone in children are all associated with passive smoking.
Living in a smoky home environment increases your baby's likelihood of developing acute or chronic otitis media.
Over time, perforation, thickening, calcification, and inverting of the eardrum make hearing loss most severe and may cause conductive deafness.
Blowing your nose
Pinching two nostrils when blowing the nose may seem convenient, but it invisibly increases the chance of the baby suffering from sinusitis and otitis media.
The right way to do it: when blowing the baby's nose, let the baby's body naturally lean forward, press the baby's nostrils with a tissue, teach the baby to blow out the other side of the nose, and then use the same method to blow the other side.
In addition to these, we should also avoid letting children be in a noisy environment for a long time in our lives; the volume of playing TV and tablets at home should be controlled; try not to use headphones for children too early; at the same time, when children are playing and playing, be careful not to let the baby stuff "foreign objects" into the ear canal...
KeDa nagged:
The ears, like the eyes, are the bridge for children to feel the world and understand the world, and they are also the channels for children to communicate with us.
While wishing Jiang Mengnan better and better, I also hope that parents will forward today's article so that more people will pay attention to it!