How To Remove Ear Wax Buildup
We asked a few people how to How to Get Rid of Razor Bumps and this is their answer.
1. Richard Blutstein, studied at Graduated from Medical School
Carbamide peroxide 6.5% is available over the counter as:
Some of the above products are sold with the word “kit” appended. That simply means that an ear syringe rubber squeeze bulb is included.
These are all exactly the same thing.
Lay on your side with one ear up. Place about 5 drops in the ear. Wait ten minutes listening to the sound of Rice crispies, snap, crackle and pop.
Then irrigate that ear with water. One way to irrigate is with an ear syringe. Another way is to go into the shower with you back to the stream of water and cock your head so the the water enters your ear from behind. It turns out your ear canal is angled slightly backward so it doesn’t collect water when you are running in the rain.
Repeat with other ear if necessary.
Don’t apply the medicine or irrigate if you have a ruptured ear drum, in that case see an ENT doctor.
2. Milly Ng, College student
A lightly wet QTip or a dry QTip while the ear canal is slightly moist. In this case, the ear wax would not be pushing into the ear canal. Since if the QTip is SY and the ear canal also dry, there is a high chance the ear wax would repel against the QTip and pushed further in
3. Mike Rightmire, Molecular Biotechnologist
The best way to remove ear wax is not to do it
A normal, healthily functioning ear is self-cleaning. The tissue (skin) lining the ear canal is continuous with the eardrum. As a part of this tissue’s life cycle, old tissue is migrated towards the opening of the ear canal, as new tissue forms at the eardrum – carrying the wax with it.
The only cleaning your ears need is at the outside opening, by an index finger wrapped in a tissue. There is no need to go any deeper in a normally functioning ear.
If you do have a tendency to create excessive wax, or have impacted wax, make an appointment with an ENT (Ear, Nose, Throat doctor) once every few months or so (according to the recommendation they give you on the first visit) to have the wax professionally removed.
Never stick anything bigger that an elbow in the ear. Never get ear candling. And, in most cases, the recommendation now is to even avoid commercial ear wax removal kits (drops and a bulb syringe) since the syringing can still damage the eardrum.
4. Ann Austin, Nurse
Actually the worst thing you can do is insert objects in the ear canal to remove the wax no matter what it is, q-tip, hair pin, etc. Anything inserted can hurt the ear drum with one slip.
I know with infants when my children were small doctors recommended using sweet oil slightly warmed, just a few drops into the canal. It would dissolve the wax, it runs out and you clean it up. I find this extremely effective today on my own ears. It’s impossible to find sweet oil in the drug store any longer but guess what? The good news is it’s the same as Extra Virgin Olive Oil. A few drops slightly warmed, not hot, in each ear. Works like a charm, gently.
5. Nicklos Stefanisko, Engeneer
For the most part it comes out naturally. But sometimes it does need help. I had an issue when I was a kid where the wax had detached and dried forming a hard crystal that was stuck and interfering with my hearing. We used Murine Ear Wax Remover. Yes, it existed in the 70s and still does today. The fluid is a low grade acid that will not hurt the skin or ear drum but softens or dissolves the wax so that it can be washed away with water.
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