Cleaning Earwax Safely

By: arpita

• Home Remedies

June 8, 2009

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Our ears have a natural irrigation procedure, which cleans the wax that collects inside the ear canal. Overproduction of earwax could act as an earplug, causing difficulty in hearing. If your ear is unable to clean the accumulated earwax naturally, you might need some external help to keep your ear clean.

The glands present on the skin of the ear canal produces wax. The earwax forms a protective layer on the ear canal, keeping it moist and preventing damage.

People, who are often plagued with excess formation of earwax, could visit their physician or wash their ears themselves. While your doctor will wash your ear safely in a professional manner, you should be extremely cautious while doing the task yourself.  However, you should not wash your ears more than once every month.

Often we are too restless, to allow our ears to do the task of natural cleansing. Instead, to remove the wax we stick cotton tipped ear buds, and even hairpins, paper clips or pencils inside the ear. Instead of removing the earwax, these objects will only push the wax further inside the ear. The sharp tips of these objects could even pierce the eardrum, damaging your ear. Therefore, never put any object inside your ears.

Pouring a few drops of a liquid such as mineral oil, glycerin or hydrogen peroxide could help to soften the earwax. Use a dropper to pour one or two drops of the liquid inside the ear. Make sure that the excess liquid comes out of the ear.

After pouring the liquid for a few days, you will find that the wax has become soft. Now take a rubber bulb syringe and fill it with lukewarm water. Now shoot water under very low pressure into your ear canal. Allow the water to come out of the ear by turning your head sideward. After washing your ear, dry it by pouring a drop of alcohol in the ear canal.

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