
How to Remove Earwax Using Olive Oil
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When I was young, I’m 68 now, my mother always used warm oil for earaches. It always worked! As for ear wax, we never had any problems but my husband, who worked in the TV, industry, always had to put ear buds in his ears and, even now has ear problems. I had never heard of the garlic drops but I will try that next time.
According to my ENT doc the best ( and least messy) way of removing ear wax is by scraping it out under direct vision with a curette made for that purpose. He doesn't think that using dissolving liquids like Debrox work well; I agree.
I have tried Debrox a few times and it has NEVER worked. The last time I used it twice a day for 5 days and squirt the warm water in to get the wax out. STILL NOTHING. GOOD LUCK if you're using Debrox. It doesn't work.
This is a subject I relate strongly to. I've used olive oil for my ears, using a dropper, then flushing them with a 50ml vet syringe, for many years. It really is the best way. A doctor I had 50 years ago (back when doctors were doctors), suggested a drop or two of oil each day or so, just to keep the wax soft and easy to remove. I think it's good to put a drop or two in the ears after a syringe job, to keep a thin film of oil where the wax has just been removed....
Once in a blue moon I'd get an itchy infection and it'd hard to resist the temptation to poke around with a cotton bud; I remember being warned to never put anything in your ear smaller than your elbow. But this itchy infection is easily sorted out with garlic juice; the method being to make a mix of garlic juice with a ration of 1 part juice to 5 or 6 parts pure water. Exactly what ratio one uses is dependent on one's pain threshold. A couple of mill in the ear canal and tilt the head to keep it there .... should only take a couple of minutes. The slight pain is the action of the infection being killed; once the pain stops, the infection - and that annoying itch - are gone. Garlic is a powerful natural antibiotic and has many ways of being used for all kinds of things. (Some people even eat the stuff)
That's my method of ear care - olive oil, a small syringe and a garlic juicer if needed. The trick I've never learned though is to do these things as soon as there's a need to rather than wait until I can't stand it anymore ....
Have you ever experienced of swelling in some part inside of your ear?
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