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How to Get Rid of Ear Wax

November 21st, 2009 by MartinDodge
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How to Remove Ear Wax

The more wax you get, the better it is to get rid of the stuff regularly to forestall any infections. When you shower, tilt your head slightly and briefly to let a little hot water run in one ear. Tilt your head to the other side to let the water escape. Do the same with the other ear. This may heat the wax to the point where it melts and runs out of your ears on its own. You may need nothing more.

 

But the stuff could still continue to build up. Fear not, there’s more you can do, assuming you don’t have a perforated ear drum, something your doctor would apprise you of after sticking a little scope in your ears.

 

If you’re too much of a cheapskate to go to the pharmacy and purchase some ear drops, you can heat olive oil to body temperature (no hotter!) and put a few drops in each ear. Use a bit of cotton to keep the stuff from running out and staining your collar. Do this for three or four days, then use an ear syringe or a large hypodermic syringe (without the needle, of course) to flush your ears with tepid water. Make sure you don’t get the tip of the syringe too close to your eardrum, which could make a blast of water dangerous.

 

At the drugstore, you can purchase a kit containing ear drops, an ear syringe, and a basin for catching the drainage. If you don’t know how to squeeze an ear syringe by yourself or are afraid of damaging your ear drum, go to the doctor’s office, where a nurse will clean your ears for you. They love doing things like that. If it’s still not budging, they may try to suction out the stubborn wax. Alternatively, the doc may simply go in with a little hook and pull it out. Don’t try that at home, people.

 

Warning!: Do not use Q-tips to clean your ears! In fact, don’t so much as stick your finger in there, as good as that may feel, because any of those things could damage your eardrum. At a minimum, they will be counterproductive and only push the wax deeper into the ear canal.

Ear Wax Candles?

Ear candling as a technique for removing ear wax is a practice that has been traced back over 4500 years ago. It is still practiced today, much to the horror of otolaryngology specialists who consider it dangerous. It must be performed by a specialist using special "candles" which are cotton sheets that have been soaked with beeswax in the shape of a cone. The cone is placed in your ear and set afire to burn slowly. After a some time, the specialist extinguishes the fire. Heat convection supposedly wicks out whatever wax, debris, and microorganisms have lodged in your ears, and the flame conveniently turns the exudates into vapor. There is no pain involved. The treatment may be completed by putting drops of hydrogen peroxide in the ears. Proponents claim that a candling every six months can relieve not only ear pain, reduced hearing, and balance difficulties, but also sinus conditions and migraines. Opponents claim that a treatment every six months is merely an effective way of cleaning out your wallet.

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    1. J Morrow Says:

      I to always got water in my ears swimming as a kid, dr told me to put several drops of rubbing alchol in them. Turn your head to the side put the drops in wait a few seconds and then turn your head over the other way…warm water will run out and no more water in your ears! It works!!

    2. sara Says:

      I bought a waterpik for my ears…they clog up every couple of months. The waterpik(only use the gentle pressure tip!) clears them in seconds…I don’t know what I would do with out it!!

    3. gleveen m. Says:

      OMG,ON SUNDAY I WENT 2 THE POOL AND MY ENTIRE EAR GOT WATER IN IT.ITS STILL IN THERE AND ON TOP OF THAT I HAVE AN EAR INFECTION PRIOR TO THAT.WHAT SHOULD I DO?IM SCARED.I CANT LISTEN TO MUSIC OR SING AS GOOD AS I USED 2 CUZ I CANT HEAR CLEARLY.

    4. lena j. Says:

      hi.
      my left ear has been blocked fo a couple of days now and i dont know what remedy to use for it. it feels like a hand is covering it to keep me from hearing…wht should i do???

    5. Darlene Says:

      My ear has been clogged for 4 days now, I went to the dr on Saturday!! NO help, he gave me some drops told me there was a white clog in my ear and sent me home!! Use peroxide and water, alcohol…..to clean out my ear, its still clogged I’m going crazy and hurts! Iwent and got an ear candle! It started burning so bad I had to have my husband take it out, burning so bad I 47 CRIED!
      HELP Someone .. anyone have any ideas! What do I do!!??

    6. angie Says:

      my ear is full of wax it is unplugged but it goes abck and forth when i shacke my head. I can still feel it full of wax. Please help me i am only 15. The wax removers only make my ear get plugged. No wax cames out. -Help!

    7. aliyah Says:

      my ear is in pain i cant take it any more it has wax i think and i think im deaf if just you can answer this qeustion what is it

    8. hannah Says:

      help! i went to a water park yesturday adn i came back and there is like tons of water still in my ear! i dont know how to get it out i have tried q tips! help

    9. Chi Says:

      If you can’t get it out with ear drops just go to a competent doctor. They will remove it in the office with a little powerful water hose and suction device. If they don’t have it they can refer you to a ear specialist that can do it too probably.

    10. Noah Says:

      I would suggest using a product called Auro-Dri. It comes in a white bottle. It contains some chemicals used for unclogging water ears. Just put 5 drops in the ear while lying down sideways with the infected ear up, then wait for about 10 nminutes. Then pour the excess dissolvent out of ear and get rid of the wax with some q-tips.

    11. cassiy char Says:

      my ear has like that sound constanly,like the sound when you lay down on your pilow and it is completly silent and you here these weird sounds…that is what it is like i have ried sailine and alchol and everything!!!! please help i dont know what else to do for it…..HELP!

    12. maz Says:

      i use ear candles all the time and found there great you can hear the wax pop out ,but to expensive 15.00 for2

    13. stacey Says:

      i have two children and they both have extremely small ear canals and over active wax production-apparently its heriditary, their dad has the same problem- anyway we had to go to the doctor to have a large pice of wax removed. it had attached itself to the inside of his ear canal so had to be scraped off the side of his ear canal..it was extremely painful for him. he was only 3.=( but the doctor said it is easily controled. mix a solution of 1/4 warm water at least body temp, and 3/4ths hydrogen proxide. then take a plunger and use small pulses of pressure to push the mixture into your ear, the proxide will curl the wax and turn it white so its easy to see and the warm water will help loosen it up so its easy to remove. if you have a chronic problem first have a doctor remove whatever is in your ear just in case it is attached to your ear cannal. if this is so, this technique will not work. but once your doc clears your ears if you do this once a week and remove the white wax from inside your ears the problem should stay under control. it has worked for us for about a year or so now. hope you all find some relief.

    14. julie Says:

      In 1992, and i was a grown women, I was sent to a speacialist and he put a tube in my right ear, wow what a difference that made. Well the tube fell out with no problems, end of story right, wrong. Ten years later had a terrible ear ache, went to dr, but instead of a tube he went for the vaccum thingy and started to suck what ever was in my ear out. Well what ever he got out of my ear it wasnt good because it plugged up his vaccum thingy and he quit, great. I still couldnt hear, so i asked him what i could use to keep the wax down and he said,use a mixture 1/2 alcohol and 1/2 vinager and use a dropper and put into your ear. I have tryed it but not long enough, so anyway good luck.

    15. Mike Says:

      My left ear, and it’s ALWAYS the left ear is so clogged. I’ve been to the doctor and she said to get the eardrops at the pharmacy. What a joke. I still cannot hear and I have been using the drops and then rinsing my ear out and I STILL cant hear!!! This is driving me absolutely out of my mind. And the whole ear candling thing is just not an option, I’ve heard horror stories about that. H E L P ! !

    16. leah Says:

      i live by ear candles, but they are hard to find altho i think i saw some at GNC the other day, just too cheap to buy them. keep dreaming when if you think what’s in the candle is candle wax…i can promise you, that stuff came from my ears (you’re talking to someone with a history of wax plugs who’s frequently had them pulled out of her ears in random parts of the world and been confronted by disgustingly large, disturbingly colored, conical shaped ear wax). My head always feels lighter and my sinuses clearer after candles. You won’t regret trying them–you’ve just got to do it right. Make sure there’s a vacuum–hold your finger over the bottom end until a stream of smoke comes out when you take it off. Then listen as the wax is sucked out of your ear.

    17. megan Says:

      OMG! my ear hurts so bad! it feels terrible does anyone have any answers for me. Please! I beg OF U> PLEASE

    18. Cheryl Says:

      Just flush them out with water frequently, I guess. One of my ears holds water and the other doesn’t, but I try to use just water. It’s cheaper, and less ticklish, also just as clean. I have to do that every couple of weeks. It is awful.

    19. Ashley Says:

      Whatever you do, don’t let the doc go in with a hook/spoon. It hurts so bad and it actually made my ear bleed.

    20. mike Says:

      ear candles have been proven in several places to be a complete hoax, 4500 years or not…they do nothing. the wax you see you think they took out is wax from the candle itself. some magazine (skeptical inquirer?) did a test over a glass or a test tube with nothing in it and the ear candle still produced “ear wax”

      mike

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