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Q-tips have long been discredited and you should not push them into your ears.

Read the label if you don't believe me.

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Earwax build-up

Find out more about what problems a build-up of earwax can cause, why it happens, and what can be done about it.
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"Important
Do not use your fingers or any objects like cotton buds to remove earwax. This will push it in and make it worse."
 
Brigadier said:
Slippery slope - your ears are self-cleaning (of wax).
Chewing, talking, and showering / bathing all help the natural movement - outwards - of any build-up.

Once you go down the treatments route, it's a train you might end up stuck upon.
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My doc told me that older people have harder earwax, difficult to dislodge.

Notters are mostly quite old.

The oil drops soften it, so it might fall out, or, if not will be easier for a professional to remove.

I think Earex say, used once a week, it prevents excess accumulating.

I knew a retired lady who topped up her dropper bottle from the kitchen oil.
 
Harry Bloomfield said:
Never any such problems here/hear?

By the side of the bath, I keep a small, fine jetted squirty bottle filled with hydrogen peroxide 3%. Every few weeks, I squirt into one ear at a time, ear uppermost, and the H2O2 dissolves the wax, and cleans each ear in turn.

Sometimes, the bought H2O2 is 6% - that should never be used as is, the reaction will be too fierce, generating heat. I cut the 6% H2O2 with an equal amount of tap water before use, 9% with three parts water.

You squirt it in deep as you can, then just lie there in the bath, letting the H2O2 fizz away, reacting with the wax, until the reactions ends. Then just rinse.

I once discussed hearing my heartbeat, with a specialist. The specialist said it was quite normal, normally you do not hear it, because your brain filters the noise out and simply ignores the noise, but the noise is always there.
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With H202 being added to the bathwater, did you notice any discernible difference in the flow rate when draining the bath?
 
JohnD said:
Q-tips have long been discredited and you should not push them into your ears.

Read the label if you don't believe me.

www.nhs.uk

Earwax build-up

Find out more about what problems a build-up of earwax can cause, why it happens, and what can be done about it.
www.nhs.uk www.nhs.uk

"Important
Do not use your fingers or any objects like cotton buds to remove earwax. This will push it in and make it worse."
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what?
 
JohnD said:
My doc told me that older people have harder earwax, difficult to dislodge.

Notters are mostly quite old.

The oil drops soften it, so it might fall out, or, if not will be easier for a professional to remove.

I think Earex say, used once a week, it prevents excess accumulating.

I knew a retired lady who topped up her dropper bottle from the kitchen oil.
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I just, very occasionally, pour some (kitchen grade) EV olive oil into the cap of the bottle, tilt my noggin to one side, and pour most of it down the side of my face :ROFLMAO:


Seems to keep my (previously, continually-infected through pool swimming) lugholes tip-top.



Do NOT pour anything into your ear though, if you have, suspect you have, or have ever had, a perforated or torn eardrum.
That's what I was advised by the doc, anyway.
 
fillyboy said:
With H202 being added to the bathwater, did you notice any discernible difference in the flow rate when draining the bath?
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The idea is, if you do it in the bath - should there be any untoward reaction, you can instantly duck your ear under the water, to dissolve the H2O2.
 
JohnD said:
Do not use your fingers or any objects like cotton buds to remove earwax. This will push it in and make it worse."
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True, if they are used like a ram, on an almost blocked ear canal. Otherwise, with just a small amount of build up, they work well, if used with extreme care.
 
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