Ear wax. What's the best way to clean it out?

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GoChiefs
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Dec 29, 2009 8:12am
What happens is..you stick the hollow 'ear candle' in your ear..then you light it. When it's lit..it creates a vacuum inside the hollow candle which sucks out the ear wax.
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Tacklingdummy
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Dec 29, 2009 8:16am
Try a shootgun aimed just under the ear in ? Aim in an upward position.
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behindthelense
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Dec 29, 2009 8:27am
Pressure washer
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vdubb96
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Dec 29, 2009 9:22am
I've done the ear candle, it's wicked that crap that comes out of your ears!!!
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RedRider1
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Dec 29, 2009 9:24am
ZWICK 4 PREZ wrote: Just clean your ears at night with a q-tip and some rubbing alcohol and you won't have this problem. The rubbing alcohol draws wax out to your outer ear. Hygiene people, hygiene.
This.

dry q-tips are worthless.
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v_falcons
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Dec 29, 2009 9:27am
I know this chic that wanted to make her own ear wax candle.. she actually ended up putting hot wax into her ear, and then had to go to the doctor.. I thought wouldnt it had been soo much easier to buy them from the local Foreign chic that sells that stuff!


on a side note : those ear candles are pretty cool, disgusting too..
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CenterBHSFan
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Dec 29, 2009 9:49am
Well, if Jessica Simpson believes in it, it must work!

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2quik4u
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Dec 29, 2009 10:02am
ear candling doesn't work

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_candling
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GoChiefs
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Dec 29, 2009 10:37am
I can assure you..when done correctly..it does most certainly work.
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september63
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Dec 29, 2009 10:51am
GoChiefs wrote: I can assure you..when done correctly..it does most certainly work.



These are FreeHuddle people............Hardly anything gets done "correctly".
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Heretic
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Dec 29, 2009 10:53am
Fire cures everything.
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vdubb96
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Dec 29, 2009 12:45pm
Believe me ear candling does work. I've done it and a few small creatures came out of my head!!!!! :)
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Chesapeake
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Dec 29, 2009 4:09pm
Ever been driving down the road after a shower and all of a sudden feel your ear poop?
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xnds1fan
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Dec 29, 2009 5:24pm
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Chesapeake wrote: Ever been driving down the road after a shower and all of a sudden feel your ear poop?
Poop?
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Dec 29, 2009 7:16pm
No, I can't say that I have.

Ya know, I think I am going to trying this candling thing......and I know JUST where to get it.

I think I will try it out first on one of my kids and see for myself what "creatures" come out!
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Go_Fast_Sports
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Dec 29, 2009 7:24pm
I dip a Q-tip in peroxide and it clears it right up.

I've also seen the air pressure method... where the doc sticks a small tube in your ear, and blows all the wax out. Not sure exactly what the procedure s called but it cleans out more than you think is in there. My brother has it done here and there and said a handful of wax came out.
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Dec 29, 2009 7:28pm
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Al Capone
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Dec 29, 2009 7:43pm
I use the old family secret.


A paper clip.
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Shane Falco
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Dec 29, 2009 8:18pm
Why not just stick a candle wick in your ear and light it?


Seems logical... wax in the ear + wick + fire = clean ear!
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Scarlet_Buckeye
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Dec 29, 2009 9:38pm
I think this video gives a pretty good demonstration of a good technique!!!!!

http://www.popthatzit.com/2009/10/the-best-ear-wax-removal-video-of-all-time/
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BRF
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Dec 29, 2009 9:48pm
Scarlet_Buckeye wrote: I think this video gives a pretty good demonstration of a good technique!!!!!

http://www.popthatzit.com/2009/10/the-best-ear-wax-removal-video-of-all-time/
I was mesmerized by that video.

I think the doctor pulled out about 5 or 6 baby robins.
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NNN
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Dec 30, 2009 1:19am
My friend's wife worked at a call center and ended up with an obstruction and infection in one ear. I got to be around when she attempted to treat it and irrigate it.

Let's just say that she finally succeeded in removing something roughly the size of a pea, complete with green and black streaks through it.
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CenterBHSFan
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Dec 30, 2009 8:50am
Al Capone wrote: I use the old family secret.

A paper clip.


I've seen old men use car keys before haha
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Gardens35
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Dec 30, 2009 9:00am
Scarlet_Buckeye wrote: I think this video gives a pretty good demonstration of a good technique!!!!!

http://www.popthatzit.com/2009/10/the-best-ear-wax-removal-video-of-all-time/
Don't believe that I've ever seen anything quite like that.....
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Scarlet_Buckeye
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Jan 4, 2010 2:02pm
Can you imagine how good that must have felt when that doc took all that stuff out on the video. I'll bet the hearing difference in the person was incredible.