Cleaning out one's ears (a different kind of advice topic)

[miokomioko]

*cotton swabs

[NotGreyheim]

You can do it, bro. Chicks dig confidence.

[Cesaria]

I've got fuck all hearing in one ear from a nice combo of wax, repeated ear infections and at one point - a perforated ear drum from the mess... they won't syringe ears at all in my health authority now - just keep telling me to shove olive oil in it - it's fuck all use to be honest.

[Meian]

Dang 3 pages already

I tried the hydrogen peroxide for about 15 min which is ceased the bubbling/sizzling sound. Poured it out but there wasn't really any wax at all.

Q-tips I am last resorting (although I am THIS close to using them at this rate). Olive Oil was a new idea to me and may give it a go later when I get some.

I would rather not deal with the doctor again as it felt like a hot needle stabbing my inner ear when they did it.

[Linliel]

Demosthenes the thought of rat droppings coming out your ears seriously squicked me out. Don't do that, please.

[Syntex]

I really don't feel like reading 3 pages of this to see if its been mentioned but I am gonna say it anyways.

If you want to try and clean your ears better use Q-Tips obviously but if that is not doing it try a cap full of Hydrogen Peroxide for 5+ minutes till most of the fizzing is gone.

Now if BOTH those don't work its time to bust out the heavy machinery and use a wax tube

http://www.bestblogposts.com/images/...ar-candles.jpg

Also called an ear candle.

What this does when you lite it on fire is it creates a sucking from the lack of oxygen that the flame is burning and it sucks the wax right out.

I tried this a little while back when my ear was being weird and after doing the above 2 mentioned things and getting no results, I got a half a tablespoon of wax out of my so called "clean" ears so shit does work.

Hope that helps...

[miokomioko]

Ear candling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Pikarya]

Ear candling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pretty much dead on.

[miokomioko]

As of 2008, there are at least two cases in which people have set their houses on fire practicing ear candling, one of which resulted in death.

Darwinism?

[Vile23]

After reading this thread my ears started itching for a qtip.

[Serif]

I don't know what everyone is talking about, QTips are only supposed to go in your penis.

[Azalee]

You mentioned alcohol in the first post, and the only time I know of to stick alcohol in your ear is after swimming or something similar... My mother always had us dip a q-tip in rubbing alcohol and clean our ears out with it to dry up the water and prevent swimmer's ear.

When I went to the doctor to have my ears cleaned out they just used a warm water flush. Not too hot, not too cold water or it fucks it up. I held this little basin thingy under my ear and she just shot a stream of warm water in over and over and over again until it was clean.