file.newsgroup.med.59578 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Bjorn R. Bjornsson)
Subject: Re: earwax
[email protected] (*Heather*) writes:
>You can try
>adding a few drops of olive oil into the ear during a shower to soften up
>the wax. Do this for a couple days, then try syringing again. It is also
>safe to point your ear up at the shower head, and allow the water to rinse
>it out.
About six years ago my ears clogged up with wax, probably as a
result of to much headphone use. Anyway, the clinic that cleaned
them out used the following procedure:
1. Inject olive oil into ears.
2. Prevent leakage of oil with cotton.
3. Come back in an hour.
4. Rinse ears with warm vater, forcefully injected
into ear (very strange sensation).
5. Done.
They had special tools to do this, and were evidently quite
familiar with the problem: Very large steel syringe. Special
bowl with cutout for ear to take the grime coming out without
spillage.
>Good Luck
Seconded,
Bjorn R. Bjornsson
[email protected]