Dummy use link to ear infections
A five-year study of almost 500 Dutch children by researchers from University Medical Center, Utrecht, found almost double the risk of recurrent ear infections in those who use a dummy. Use a dummy to pacify a child, risk them going deaf ? DO the Dutch put them in their babies ears instead of their mouth ?
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Usually babies who use the pacifier are those who would have sucked their thumb instead. My daughter was born with her thumb in her mouth. The nurse at the hospital gave her pacifyer and she took to it. My son was also a thumb-sucker, but wouldn't take the pacifyer. I think it would be more fair to compare thumb-suckers against pacifyer users. However, in my experience neither my thumb-sucker or pacifyer user had more ear infections than each other or their brother who didn't suck his thumb or use a pacifyer. We're just one family-- I know-- so it doesn't prove anything, but I have to wonder how they came to their conclusion?
I think these days there is a tendency to suggest everything can make you deaf from noise, to smoking. We had a 'survey' via the RNID here suggesting smokers will go deaf in later age ! Peoploe tend to lose hearing as they get older anyway, smoking or not. It is the UK's government, using a 'fear factor' not to highlight potential deaf causes, but to stop people smoking as its bad for them, because smoking cuts oxygen tothe cochlear hairs so they die, it's NOT proven, but this distorts deaf issues, in part it can suggest that if you smoked at any point and now you are deaf, then it's your own fault.
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