Mothers should desist from using their mouths to suck out mucus from the noses of their children or risk contracting infection, an Ontologist, Dr Titus Ibekwe, has advised.
Ibekwe, who is also the Chairman of the FCT Branch of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), gave the advice in an interview on in Abuja.
He stressed that sucking out the mucus from the child’s nose was not enough to make the child better.
The ontologist said what was needed to be done was to contact a doctor that would deal with the cause of such illness.
“It is not a healthy practice; especially the sucking with mouth, all the organisms that are causing this infection you are trying to take in; to ingest it, and that may even predispose the mother to an infection that she never bargained for.
“Best thing to do is to try as much as possible to clean the nose as it’s flowing; if it’s so bad there are special suction machine that could be used to suck out those mucus.
“It is the bi-product of the infection that the child is having that you are seeing flowing out in the form of mucus until the primary infection is tackled.’’
Ibekwe also said it was wrong to use cotton buds to remove mucus from the child’s nose as the wool on the plastic tube could dislodge and block air passage.
He said once that happened, the child could inhale the wool, which he explained, could go down to the air way and cause upper airway obstruction.
Ibekwe said the obstruction could lead to instant death.
“The skin that lines the nose is very fragile; it has a lot of blood vessels around it; you know about children having nose bleeding; so this can cause such and we discourage it.READ MORE
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