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How to Get Rid of Ear Wax
Ear Wax Buildup
Ear wax exists to protect your ear drums from dust, bacteria, insects, and the tongues of amorous drunks. Normally, there is no need to get rid of it.Ear wax is produced by glands in the ear canal. So long as the ear canal remains a moist, the wax will remain the consistency of a warm candle. But just as a marching band can have too many tubas, the ear canal can build up too much wax.
Here’s how you discover a build-up of excess wax: ear pain (Learn how to get rid of ear aches), tinnitus (ringing or other phantom sounds), difficulty hearing, balance problems, and/or temporary deafness after you’ve submerged your head in water.
What Causes Excessive Ear Wax?
The presence of ear wax can be irritating and inconvenient, but the only real danger it poses is that it could shelter and incubate an ear infection (Tips on how to get rid of ear infections). For most people, the wax sheds itself when you sleep and when you move your jaw. Presumably, big eaters and people who talk a lot have fewer problems.Some people are more prone to yellow waxy buildup. Wax builds up due to overactive glands and aging. People with narrow ear canals, charmingly hairy ear canals, inflammatory skin conditions, or those who work in very dusty environments can also have problem ear wax. Sometimes it can be prevented through diet. Supposedly, a diet rich in omega 3 fatty acids will discourage wax buildup. Omega 3 fatty acids are found in things like avocados, ground flax seed, walnuts, and certain fish, like salmon and albacore tuna. Pasteurized dairy products have been shown to have an irritating effect on some people’s ears, and this could produce a waxy reaction. Learn How To Remove Ear Wax >>
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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!!
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!!
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.
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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???
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!!??
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!
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
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
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.
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.
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!
i use ear candles all the time and found there great you can hear the wax pop out ,but to expensive 15.00 for2
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.
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.
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 ! !
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.
OMG! my ear hurts so bad! it feels terrible does anyone have any answers for me. Please! I beg OF U> PLEASE
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.
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.
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