Why don doctors/nurses like syringing blocked ears?
Ear syringing is gradually becoming obsolete as it creates more problems than it solves. The jet of hot water can cause the ear drum to perforate, which is bad enough in itself as the eardrum needs to be intact to be able to hear optimally. It also gives a route to infection as it creates a passage to the middle ear which is a lovely warm moist area….perfect for bacteria to grow. Nowadays people usually get referred to ENT (Ear’s Nose Throat) dept where they can remove the wax using suction.To prevent wax build up the best thing to do is to use a couple of drops of room temperature olive oil in each ear each week.
wax is around the ear is there to protect it from infection but producing to much wax can cause glue ear which needs operation but doctors dont like doing for 1 it can cause infection 2 can cause damage to ear drum if they go too far in 3 they prefer you to get ear drop to clean them hope this any use for you
Hi, Doctors and nurses don’t like doing this procedure as you should not put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear ( I was taught this in my training) as your ear is very sensitive and is actually self cleaning. You should then avoid anything in your ears especially if you are using cotton buds, as these just push the wax in the ear up against the ear drum and it becomes compacted making matters worse. Syringing you have to have your ear examined first to see the ear drum and make sure it is okay and not perforated and if they can not see the ear drum or there is hard dark coloured wax you have to use ear drops for a while to soften the wax before they can continue, the process of syringing can perforate the ear drum too if you are not careful. Watch some ear drops like the other person sayed best to use slightly warmed olive oil.
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