Will pinching a baby's nose make it straighter? What are the harms of pinching a baby's nose?

There is a saying that if you pinch the nose frequently, it will become straighter and straighter. Many mothers see that their newborn babies have flat noses, so they believe this saying and start pinching their babies' noses. Is this true?

There is currently no scientific evidence to show that pinching the nose bridge can make the nose higher. What's more serious is that pinching the nose bridge can easily hurt the baby.

Whether a baby has a high nose is a typical dominant inheritance. That is to say, among the pair of genes that determine a high nose, as long as one of them is a dominant gene (high nose gene), the baby will have a high nose. Theoretically, if both parents have high noses, then the baby has at least a 75% chance of inheriting a high nose. But if both parents have low noses, then the baby basically has no chance of having a high nose.

1. Induce otitis media: Parents often pinch the nose of their newborn baby, which can easily cause the mucus in the newborn's nose to be squeezed into the ear, which in turn can easily cause the newborn to suffer from otitis media.

2. Affect the baby's eye development: Parents often pinch the newborn baby's nose, the baby will consciously look at the parents' hands, which will affect the baby's eye development in the long run, such as causing the baby to cross-eyed.

3. Damage to the nasal mucosa: Parents who often pinch their baby’s nose will affect the baby’s normal breathing. If parents use too much force, it can easily damage the baby’s mucosa and blood vessels, induce an inflammatory reaction, and even make it easy to get infected with bacteria and viruses, endangering the baby’s health.

It can be seen from this that pinching a newborn baby's nose is very harmful. It not only easily causes the baby to suffer from otitis media, but also affects the baby's eyesight. Therefore, for the baby's health, parents should not pinch the baby's nose.

Some experts say that pinching and clipping to make the nose bridge higher is basically ineffective. If you want to make the nose bridge higher, you can only do plastic surgery. In fact, in infancy, the nose bridge of babies is very flat. When the baby's anterior fontanelle closes at 1 to 1.5 years old, the facial bones and nasal bones begin to grow and develop rapidly, and the nose bridge slowly grows out. The changes in the nasal bones will continue to develop until puberty, when they will become mature. This is also the reason why we often say "girls change a lot when they grow up". Generally, our faces will not be completely formed until puberty.

Infants have flat noses and a wide distance between their eyes, so their faces are usually "full moon faces". Coupled with baby fat, the baby's nose appears particularly flat, and the nostrils may even turn upward. After the baby is about one year old, the anterior fontanelle begins to close, the facial bones begin to develop, and the nose bridge gradually becomes taller. When the baby reaches 7 or 8 years old and begins to replace permanent teeth, the nasal bones quickly expand in all directions, and the nose bridge will grow higher. The reason why many people think that pinching the nose will make the nose bridge higher is probably because it happened to coincide with the development stage of the nasal bones, and they mistakenly believed that it was the effect of pinching the nose, which also led to the spread of this saying.