Dealing with earwax

I stick a piece of sterilised cloth onto a wire and push it straight through from one ear to the other, pulling the dirty end out of the opposite ear. No problems and no infections!!

In reality I only collect what hits the end of my finger. I am fortunate in that my ears are not very waxy anyway. I am quite sure that your information is good though. Poking your fingers in simply pushes the wax deeper into your ears where it can compound and infect the ear canal.

I clean mine out because it makes my ears itch if I don't.

Kelly

Eeeewwww I could not go without cleaning my ears.
My hubby needs to do his everyday.
He bought a special ear cleaner from the chemist.

well the wax IS there for a purpose. and according to doctors and nurses you arent supposed to insert anything smaller than your elbow into your ear canal (lol thats what they said i swear!)

i have an ex that use to be fanatic about getting the wax out of his ear, he would use a q-tip like 3 times a day. and YES he eventually got a nasty ear infection, and the fluid/wax that started to drain out of his ear was totally digusting and looked bloody!

i regularly clean the out edge of my ear canal with a q-tip, but never stick it INSIDE the canal.

I don´t throw away my earwax too often.
Beacuse I have heard before,that you shall leave it alone.

Hi Sandhya,
I usually don’t interfere with nature and have never had an ear infection (touch wood). But long time back, my left ear was badly damaged during a phone conversation…you know I was talking intently and then suddenly from somewhere on the other side, this high pitched metallic sound was like a shaft of pain thru my ear and I literally fell down. My friend was of course oblivious to it and it did not want to get her worried so I said nothing but since then this left ear has been troubling me. Its not a regular ache, but I cant take loud noises or high-pitched tones and I use the earwax cleaner about once a month otherwise the ear tends to feel heavy from inside and starts throbbing.

I do clean out my ears every now and then with a cotton bud. Yes it can be very dangerous if you do it too often or stick the cotton bud too far in your ear. Especially when it comes to cleaning kids ears. I know of people that ocassionally go to a Doctor and have the wax syringed out with some warm liquid mix or something? They have said that aferwards it felt like they had supersonic hearing! lol. I would like to get this done myself one day I think.

I clean my ears with cotton swabs because I can't stand that if I don't, people may see it. After I shower, any water in there itches, so I dry it out with a cotton swab.

I fully endorse your views and agree whatever your have written - earwax should not removed using any pointed object such as needle or even ear-buds. My ENT specialists tells me that when it accumlates in excess, it comes out automatically, as and when we chew our food. I normally do not clean out wax from my ears.
What do you do in this case?

my mom was an earwax cleaner, but she was very careful

after college I tried to "be good" and not clean it out

One day, after a shower where I got a BIG earful of water washing my hair my ear started itching

It was MADDENING!!!

I got one of mom's swabs and just gave it a swirl and out it came, completely WRAPPED in hardened earwax! A few more swirls, the ear was dry and no longer itched. I've never been able to tollerate earwax since.

I'm not saying I'm digging it out every day, but I clean them when they ITCH!

Oh, and as a child, my mom said I was the only child she knew that could go swimming every day and still have earwax at the end of the week.