Comments on: Stop Cleaning Inside Your Ears: It’s Bad for You

By: Bobo Hongkong

Bobo Hongkong — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:00:50 +0000

i m told yeah no need clean ear

but reality n theory is usually different

it is like police would ask u not to cross road when red light is on or ask u not to smoke pot

but they might do same when they r off duty ;P
or they might smoke pot themselves after they finish working ;P

By: Harold

Harold — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:29:30 +0000

I did not clean the wax from my ears for five years. Then suddenly one day I went half deaf in my left ear. I bought a wax removal solution and after hours pulled out a plug the size of a peanut. Suddenly I could hear again and realized my right ear was actually a quarter deaf. I pulled out another large plug that cleared my hearing there too. I stopped cleaning my ears in the first place because someone said something to me very similar to this article. It’s stupid advice. If you don’t clean your ears eventually you lose your hearing.

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 05 May 2013 05:22:51 +0000

Re:Greg’s post (#5) who said, “… the wax is produced from within the ear canal, and with normal chewing, talking, the wax slowly makes its way to the other ear, where it falls out…”

I sure hope you meant “outer ear”.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Sat, 04 May 2013 22:22:10 +0000

I included this story in my blog today because I have been saying this forever and it is a constant argument in my house! This story makes me feel a little better that I am not willing to put stuff in my ears!

http://tolerantpeople.com/2013/05/04/science-answering-all-our-questions-eventually/

By: Alicia

Alicia — Sat, 04 May 2013 08:57:56 +0000

I cannot sleep without earplugs. I am an insomniac and in order to sleep I must do many things, and one of them is to use earplugs. However, when I remove the plugs I am greeted with a maddening tickly itching sensation, which seems to be a combination of the little hairs springing back into place after being held against the wall of the ear canal, and the trickling of moisture which builds up during the night behind the plugs. I am driven utterly to distraction until I CAREFULLY use a swab to dry the ear canal and fluff up the hairs. As a result I have sparkling clean ears. I can’t remember the last time I saw a speck of earwax on a swab. And for the record I have an extreme version of caucasian earwax. It is bright orangey yellow and is very thin and sticky. Kind of like really nasty smelling caramel sauce. I can’t imagine an ear wax spoon accomplishing anything. Until someone can find me a way to dry my ears without using an absorbent swab, I shall continue to flout authority.

By: Jean

Jean — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:16:40 +0000

The person who wrote this report knows nothing. They just repeated something they have heard without doing any proper research.

Research has now proven that the kind of ear wax (sticky, dry, etc) a person has is related to a certain gene.

Ears have to be cleaned one way or the other or it is gross to other people and offputting. I have seen people’s ears full of dandruff, long black hairs and dark yellow wax.

I prefer cotton swabs dipped in alcohol to clean my ears. My ears get itchy unless I clean them.

I have also watched an audiologist pull plugs of wax from a relative’s ear. Wax-plugged ears cannot hear well.

By: Jeltez42

Jeltez42 — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:38:09 +0000

I have allergies and if I did not clean out my ears every few days the itching would drive me crazy. I believe if I left my ears alone as suggested in the article, I would experience substantial hearing loss.

Everyone is different – and like they say in the ads ‘your results may vary’.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:33:12 +0000

I have to admit I do tend to clean my ears with a cotton bud from time to time. I am careful and definitely do not probe too deeply down the canal as I am mindful of the fact that it’s not the best practice. My one ear just tends to build an excessive amount of wax as compared to the other and does cause an element of irritation and hence the urge to clean.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:28:04 +0000

I remember waking up one morning everything seemingly good and all of a sudden I went deaf in one ear. Talk about panic and confusion. Went to the doc the next day (Monday) and it turns out it was a load of wax that had caused the temporary deafness. He syringed the ear and Wowza – I could not believe how much “gunk” came out of that one ear but the feeling after it was cleaned. It was like a whole new ear that added new meaning to hearing a pin drop. Quite an experience.

By: Ross Wagstaff

Ross Wagstaff — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:08:56 +0000

I had an ear doctor tell me when I went fishing with him that he tells his patients to run warm shower water into your ear by tipping your ear toward the shower head and letting the water sit for 10-20 seconds. This is the easiest and least invasive way to keep your ear clean and the wax under control. He has recommended this to many people with excessive wax buildup and they have all found that it works sufficiently to not get their wax removed by a professional.

By: adey

adey — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:04:30 +0000

I’ve used q-tips for 30 years to remove wax from my ears. As I am not a complete idiot I have never compacted wax into my ear or caused myself an injury. My doctor says I have very nice, clean ears. Who are these idiots who can not use a q-tip correctly?

By: Ann Deluty

Ann Deluty — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:40:30 +0000

Turning from side to side in my sleep I have the maddening feeling of something (ear wax)draining from my ears. Onlyt a Q-Tip will allow me to go back to sleep.

By: Rudy Haugeneder

Rudy Haugeneder — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:34:15 +0000

After watching others close to me, I stupidly starting cotton swab cleaning my ears two or three years ago, and have been going increasingly hard of hearing as a result. Now I finally understand why.
Trust your instincts, and self-challenge and investigate any medical change you are about to make. If you don’t, you are damned to discomfort.

By: The Sanity Inspector

The Sanity Inspector — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:21:40 +0000

If only the wax didn’t itch like blazes…

By: Mena

Mena — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:39:19 +0000

@ Kenny
The majority of White people actually have different earwax to the majority of Asian people. Asian earwax is more dry, flakey and crumbly and can be dug out with an ear wax spoon. Caucasion (and African) earwax is wetter and waxier and it’s easier to swab away.