Ear Wax,

[Sammyjo1207]

Hi could I ask how do you clean your ears properly if you know what I mean

[bookbinder]

Ask your pharmacist for olive oil eardrops.

[Tyrion44]

I have just paid £80 to have my ears syringed, a service we used to get free at the surgery. Not a bad rate for less than 5 minutes in the chair - he must be raking it in. I had no option but to get the procedure done as I was virtually deaf, but I wonder how many more treatments are going to be moved into the private sector.

[Sqad]

If your hearing is normal, then there is no need to "clean your ears ."
If your hearing is impaired, then you need a qualified person to look into your ears, to confirm that the problem is due to impacted wax.
If the problem is wax then £80 would be well spent to hear normally again.
If you haven't got £85 then a visit to the chemist may well be worth a try.

[anneasquith]

I thought syringing was out of favour for micro suctioning .

[douglas9401]

Boots will do suctioning for £50. Our health centre is still too feart to get that close to folk.

[jno]

they did it with what felt like some sort of jackhammer last time I had it done, anne. It literally left my ears bleeding and was most unpleasant. Go for the olive oil eardrops if you can.

[anneasquith]

That’s not nice jno .

[jno]

it wasn't, anne. Some sort of pulsing mini-hose, I suppose, and not done by my GP. I don't know if this has become standard, but I'm in no hurry to do it again.

[anneasquith]

Did the procedure improve your hearing jno ?

[Sqad]

It doesn't matter whether suction or syringing is employed, like most things it has to bedone properly and by someone who knows what they are doing.
Suction seems to be in favour at the moment.

[jno]

hard to say, anne ... which I suppose means "no".

[jourdain2]

In France we were recommended to use hydrogen peroxide every so often, a couple of drops - allow ear to drain after a minute and clean out with a cotton bud. It worked pretty well and you could buy it at the supermarket. Can't find it here, must redouble efforts as OH is struggling with it clogging-up his hearing aids.

[Sqad]

Jourdain.....excellent alternative to syringing or suction, it is used a lot in European countries.

[Musictv2019]

Cotton buds are not supposed to be used for cleaning out your ears my mummy was using one and it got stuck in her ear and she had to get it removed by a doctor.

[jourdain2]

Just around the edges and in the entrance to soak up the excess musictv - that's OK. It's poking them right inside that is dicey.