Surprisingly, your ears are self-cleaning! When dust and dirt is trapped in the ear wax, the wax hardens and loosens, becoming less sticky. Ear wax is healthy! Should You Use Q-Tips to Clean Your Ears? Any foreign matter that enters the ear canal is trapped in the sticky ear wax, and doesn’t get far down the ear canal. Ear wax is responsible for keeping your ears clean, and preventing dirt, dust, debris, or moisture from reaching the ear drum in the middle ear. However, ear wax plays an important role in the health of your ears. Like many Americans, you might think that ear wax is a bit gross, and the sticky substance in your ears often gets a bad reputation. Before you light that wick, take a moment to consider if ear candles are effective or dangerous. If you have excessive ear wax in your ear canal, you may have been considering using ear candles to get rid of this extra ear wax. If you feel that you might have a wax build-up or are having difficulty with muffled hearing, call our office to schedule an appointment.Have you felt like your ears are plugged, or that you might have a build up of earwax in your ear canal? Do sounds seem muffled, and does if feel like all the sounds around you have been turned down a notch or two? You may have hearing loss, and need to seek help from a hearing health specialist, but you may also be suffering from a buildup of ear wax.
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If you are experiencing muffled hearing, whether you think it is caused by ear wax or not, your best bet is to see a medical professional for safe and appropriate wax removal and possible referral for a hearing test. The biggest issue with the use of ear candles, is that in my experience, the majority of people who think they have muffled hearing because they have too much ear wax, in fact do not have too much ear wax. If you drop the candle or roll a little bit, the fire can touch the fabric, your clothes, or your hair and start a fire. You are typically laying down, probably on the sofa or bed, in order to use it. Another danger of ear candles is the fact that it’s a fire. It will require an ENT to use a microscope and a hook in order to retrieve the candle wax off of the ear drum and restore your hearing. Besides the intense pain you feel when the wax hits the ear drum, the wax will harden and cause a temporary hearing loss. There have been some instances where the hot wax drips down into the ear canal and can actually land on the ear drum. Some individuals elect to use them without placing a paper tray around the candle. But why did I say ear candles are dangerous? Either way, the amount of wax found inside the candle is not very much. Their argument is that the wax found inside the candle is most likely the wax that has dripped down the side of the candle and been sucked into the tunnel. The people who wish to disprove the effectiveness of ear canals will remind you that a candle is made of wax. If the wax is located deep in the ear, or has hardened, the candle will not create enough suction to remove the wax.Īdvocates of using ear candles will cut open the used candle and show you the wax located in the center tunnel to prover that the candle did work.
Now this will only work if the wax in your ear is soft and located close to the opening of the ear canal. The theory is that the is fire at the top of the candle creates a vacuum in the hollow center canal that sucks the ear wax out of your ear. There is a small tunnel in the center of the candle. You place the end of the candle in your ear canal and have someone light the wick. To use an ear candle is that you place a protective paper “tray” around the bottom of the candle. A simple internet search or search of YouTube videos will show numerous entries. There have been many experiments either trying to prove or disprove the effectiveness of ear candles for removing ear wax. Unfortunately, they can also be very dangerous.
Many people swear that they are the easiest way to remove ear wax. Ear Candles are a homeopathic remedy for ear wax removal.
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