Anybody have good ideas about getting wax and other stuff our of your ears? Thanks.
It seems like the usual advice and web searches come up with having your doctor do it. The usual advice is to also not do it yourself. But when you're climbing out of the swimming pool twice and thrice a day... I confess to gently using q-tip's with much fear and concern so as not to go in too deep. There's thoughts of rubbing alcohol too... Does anybody else deal with this?
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I remember when I was young and ear aches. the throbbing pain and my mother put warm oil in my ear and took the pain away. I have always wondered what that oil was. She heated it in a pan of water , once it went in it soothed the pain then after about 10 minutes I would turn and it would come out with the same feeling that water in the ear has when it comes out and my ear felt so much better! I use the old Q-tips although I have read for years not to and some day would like to try the old ear candleing method for fun. I have not have had any ear problems for more then 15 years since I started wearing a watertight cap and water in my ears is not a problem.
It was probably mineral oil.
And I wouldn't recommend trying the candling, even for fun. First of all, lying on your side for 10 minutes with a burning wax cone stuck in your ear isn't much fun, and on top of that you risk getting the crud from the candle (which is what shows up in the bottom of the cone when you're done) into your ear.
If you want to try quack nostrums, why not use those "detox" pads that go on your feet? They're just as phony as ear candles, but they're probably not going to hurt you, and you can sleep through the "treatment".
I remember when I was young and ear aches. the throbbing pain and my mother put warm oil in my ear and took the pain away. I have always wondered what that oil was. She heated it in a pan of water , once it went in it soothed the pain then after about 10 minutes I would turn and it would come out with the same feeling that water in the ear has when it comes out and my ear felt so much better! I use the old Q-tips although I have read for years not to and some day would like to try the old ear candleing method for fun. I have not have had any ear problems for more then 15 years since I started wearing a watertight cap and water in my ears is not a problem.
It was probably mineral oil.
And I wouldn't recommend trying the candling, even for fun. First of all, lying on your side for 10 minutes with a burning wax cone stuck in your ear isn't much fun, and on top of that you risk getting the crud from the candle (which is what shows up in the bottom of the cone when you're done) into your ear.
If you want to try quack nostrums, why not use those "detox" pads that go on your feet? They're just as phony as ear candles, but they're probably not going to hurt you, and you can sleep through the "treatment".
