Ear Wax

[LimeSlice]

Once a year or so I will syringe my own ears with warm water. Quite scary how much stuff actually comes out of them!! lol *eeew*

But I have never cleaned the girls' ears, despite them being "full of wax" on several doctor's visits...Nobody has ever suggested it either.

[Trillian]

My girls get a shocking build up of ear wax so I need to make sure I keep on top of it and syringe them once every two months or so, sometimes more if they need it. I don't believe that ears are self cleaning in all people. My boys hardly ever have ear wax, but if I left the girls ears to self clean they'd end up with a candle in there LOL!

[EsJay]

We just went through some issues with DD1 having incredible amoiunts of ear wax & recurring ear issues which could never be fully diagnosed as noone could see her ear drum. An ent gave me a prescription for some drops to dissolve the wax so she could see the problem which left me with horrendous amoubts of ear wax coming out of her. Anyway she ended up gettibg grommets, despite all my efforts the build up was too much & had gone hard whi h was causing her pain & ear infections. The ent said ears are meant to be left alone but when you can see the wax just glimpsing in the general ear area u really should remove the outer excess & keep an eye on it. HTH

I like the water idea though, if i could get DD to do that i thibk thatd solve some of our problems

[Arcadia]

I do remove what I can see (ie it's running out if the ear) but only in dd. My theory is the oily skin people have more ear wax, because dh and dd have heaps and I have never really had any to clean!?