First of all sorry for my bad tech english.
I know doctors are the best way to go for a professional ear wax cleaning, I just want to ask your home methods to “limit” this problem waiting to go to the doctor because I can’t afford enough money for that 1/month. So my strategy is to limit this problem by myself cleaning my ears 1/week and go to the doc one time out 3 months.
Btw all this is not for me but for my old aunt. She lives now in a rest home so I can’t clean her ears at her home anymore and unfortunately nurses are not able to clean her ears or just maybe they get bored to do that.
I bought this small otoscope for her and it’s a quite good tool to see her inner ears. As said her wax is growing up week after week because I’ve met her today and I checked the wax level by the otoscope and it’s much more than the “normal” level when she lived at her home.
When I took care of her I cleaned her ears putting some drops of this specific oil based on dimethylbenzene and almond oil. I put the drops when she went to bed and the drops lied there for a couple of hours. I went to her home the next day and I used a syringe without its needle full of warm water and spray the water inside her ears. I repeated that operation for 5 minutes and a bit of wax came out.
Now I’d like to know if there’re (let’s say…) easier/faster ways to remove ear wax at home because I can’t do this job anymore and nurses are not (enough) able to operate with the syringe method.
I searched a bit on my local amazon and found these tools BUT feedbacks are terrible:
- Spray bottle. I think this is the tool with best feedbacks. I ask only for the spray bottle, not for the other tools because I won’t use them anyhow.
- For babies, electric.
- Pen shaped, electric.
- Gun shaped, electric.
- Pen shaped, electric. I don’t understand if it sucks as well or only vibrates.
- Corkscrew shaped.
- Corkscrew shaped, electric.
I’d be glad to hear your opinions, experiences and suggestions on diy wax removal at home.