My friend said that he cleans his ears out with hydrogen peroxide, then with a hot water spray. Effective?
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As someone who used to work in a doctors office, I can tell you that is exactly how we did it there. In mild cases, we used a mixture of mostly warm water and a little bit of hydrogen peroxide, and we had a tool, which was the same idea as the bulb your friend uses. For more severe cases, you put plain hydrogen peroxide directly into the ear of a person laying on their side. How long you had them lay there depended on how severly clogged with wax they were. Then you had them sit up, and repeat the water/hydro. peroxide and bulb proceidure until their ears were clear. Its perfectly safe, as long as you dont do it alot, and can actually help you hear better. Doing it at home, however, I would highly recommend you have your family doctor do this, as there is always risk of damaging your ears if you do it yourself. As for q-tips. A rule of thumb. Never stick anything smaller than your elbow in your ear.
This is not a good idea. You can use half peroxide and half water but leave it in only about 2 min.Then rinse with warm water.
I've never tried hydrogen peroxide before, I've always used Q-Tips with warm water, but my denist has had me rinse out my mouth with hydrogen peroxide, so if it doesn't hurt the mouth, then I don't know if it would hurt the ears, I might try hrdrogen peroxide in my ears, but only on a Q-Tip starting out to see if I notice a difference!
I have had ear candleing done before, which uses the heat of a candle to draw out the wax, I believe in ear candleing, but it cost money to get done, and you'll have to find someone that's does it for a living, if you want to have it done!
Actually, you're hurting yourself more than you realize by using Q-tips. If you're going to try the peroxide, mix it half and half with water- pure peroxide (especially sitting there for that long) can be hard on your ears and cause minor cell damage. But, yes, it is effective because the peroxide dissolves the earwax. If you want to test this to see what it will do, put some earwax in a bathroom cup or something and pour peroxide on it; you'll instantly see it dissolving (this is pretty entertaining to watch anyway).
no he could be hurting his ear drum. My cousin used to clean his kids's ears that way and now one of them is deaf in one ear because the proxide ate at his ear drum. Go to the doc and they can use an oil to clean them that is perfectly safe or use a q-tip
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