Can anybody recommend ear drops that will dissolve ear wax please? They
seem to come with a variety of additives like Hydrogen Peroxide or Sodium
Bicarbonate and I have no idea of that is good or bad. Surgery doesn't do
syringing any more.

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
Though no-one can go back and make a new start, everyone can start from
now and make a new ending.

Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
>
> Can anybody recommend ear drops that will dissolve ear wax please? They
> seem to come with a variety of additives like Hydrogen Peroxide or Sodium
> Bicarbonate and I have no idea of that is good or bad. Surgery doesn't do
> syringing any more.
>

My wife found the Otex Express combi pack very good. It comes with a
skoosher and hydrogen peroxide solution.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Otex-3453305-Express-Combi-Pack/dp/B002FAHBKA/ref=asc_df_B002FAHBKA/?

I just dig mine out with a spoon. The skoosher is probably safer.

Tim
--
Please don't feed the trolls

On 2024-01-12, Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
>
> Can anybody recommend ear drops that will dissolve ear wax please? They
> seem to come with a variety of additives like Hydrogen Peroxide or Sodium
> Bicarbonate and I have no idea of that is good or bad. Surgery doesn't do
> syringing any more.
>
Visit your local Audiologist, they will have some ideas and maybe some
samples.

--
Simon

RLU: 222126

No they are done by opticians quite often at a number of quid a throw. I
think its going down the same road as dentistry. Both the additives you
mention are supposed to liquidise and unstuck the wax, but it does not
actually all come out and some ear cleaning with the pulsating water jet on
the end of a small scope they poke in the ear seems to work well.
Unfortunately as one ages, the expected improvement seems to be less as I
fancy the high frequency bits are lost.
Brian

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"Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote in message
news:xn0ogqftk16a37l003@news.individual.net...
>
> Can anybody recommend ear drops that will dissolve ear wax please? They
> seem to come with a variety of additives like Hydrogen Peroxide or Sodium
> Bicarbonate and I have no idea of that is good or bad. Surgery doesn't do
> syringing any more.
>
> --
> Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
> Though no-one can go back and make a new start, everyone can start from
> now and make a new ending.

On 12 Jan 2024 08:20:52 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
wrote:

>
>Can anybody recommend ear drops that will dissolve ear wax please? They
>seem to come with a variety of additives like Hydrogen Peroxide or Sodium
>Bicarbonate and I have no idea of that is good or bad. Surgery doesn't do
>syringing any more.
>

Mineral oil is the Olde Home Remedy :

https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/earwax

Just don't be poking around with things in there !
- nothng smaller than your pinky finger.

John T.

<hubops@ccanoemail.com> wrote:

> On 12 Jan 2024 08:20:52 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Can anybody recommend ear drops that will dissolve ear wax please? They
> >seem to come with a variety of additives like Hydrogen Peroxide or Sodium
> >Bicarbonate and I have no idea of that is good or bad. Surgery doesn't do
> >syringing any more.
> >
>
> Mineral oil is the Olde Home Remedy :
>
> <https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/earwax>
>
> Just don't be poking around with things in there !
> - nothng smaller than your pinky finger.
>

"Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ears."

--
^Ï^. Sn!pe, PA, FIBS - Professional Crastinator

My pet rock Gordon just is.

Sn!pe wrote:

> "Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ears."

So what *are* Qtips meant for?

Tease'n'Seize said:
> Sn!pe wrote:
>
>> "Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ears."
>
> So what *are* Qtips meant for?

Selling to people ?

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
>
> Can anybody recommend ear drops that will dissolve ear wax please? They
> seem to come with a variety of additives like Hydrogen Peroxide or Sodium
> Bicarbonate and I have no idea of that is good or bad. Surgery doesn't do
> syringing any more.
>

I’ve tried all of them and found little difference.

Spec savers offer wax removal and are pretty good, although I now use a
local small company which I find very good - I fact I was there on Tuesday.
She charges £45 if you visit her clinic or £65 for a home visit. That
seems to be the going rate.

On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:13:45 +0000
Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid> wrote:

> Sn!pe wrote:
>
> > "Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ears."
>
> So what *are* Qtips meant for?

Compacting the wax in the ear canal so it can't be removed without
professional help.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
Host: Beautiful Theory meet Inconvenient Fact
Obit: Beautiful Theory died today of factual inconsistency

On 12-Jan-24 14:17, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:
> On 12 Jan 2024 08:20:52 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Can anybody recommend ear drops that will dissolve ear wax please? They
>> seem to come with a variety of additives like Hydrogen Peroxide or Sodium
>> Bicarbonate and I have no idea of that is good or bad. Surgery doesn't do
>> syringing any more.
>>
>
> Mineral oil is the Olde Home Remedy :
>
> https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/earwax
>
> Just don't be poking around with things in there !
> - nothng smaller than your pinky finger.

In the UK it was Olive Oil - back in the days when the only place you
could buy olive oil was from a Chemist (Pharmacist), in tiny bottles.

(Cook with the stuff? Are you mad?!?)

--
Sam Plusnet

On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:18:09 +0000
Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

> In the UK it was Olive Oil - back in the days when the only place you
> could buy olive oil was from a Chemist (Pharmacist), in tiny bottles.

Olive oil is one of the least risky and generally effective type of
ear drops. I'm not sure whether the only advantage of getting it in ickle
bockles from the chemist is the syringe or whether it is actually different
somehow from the stuff I cook with.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
Host: Beautiful Theory meet Inconvenient Fact
Obit: Beautiful Theory died today of factual inconsistency

Ahem A Rivet's Shot said:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:18:09 +0000
> Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>
>> In the UK it was Olive Oil - back in the days when the only place you
>> could buy olive oil was from a Chemist (Pharmacist), in tiny bottles.
>
> Olive oil is one of the least risky and generally effective type of
> ear drops. I'm not sure whether the only advantage of getting it in ickle
> bockles from the chemist is the syringe or whether it is actually different
> somehow from the stuff I cook with.

The pharmacy I was in this afternoon sells squeezy droppers on
their own.

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

In article <v7i2qi1s2i2pcohicmkufr7cjnmkc5pblc@4ax.com>,
hubops@ccanoemail.com on Fri, 12 Jan 2024 at 09:17:03 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
>On 12 Jan 2024 08:20:52 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
>wrote:
>
>>
>>Can anybody recommend ear drops that will dissolve ear wax please? They
>>seem to come with a variety of additives like Hydrogen Peroxide or Sodium
>>Bicarbonate and I have no idea of that is good or bad. Surgery doesn't do
>>syringing any more.
>>
>
>Mineral oil is the Olde Home Remedy :
>
>https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/earwax
>
>Just don't be poking around with things in there !
> - nothng smaller than your pinky finger.
>
> John T.
My doctor when I was an anklebiter my doctor nothing smaller than your
left elbow should go into your right ear and vice versa.
--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

In article <20240112193941.eb3afdb040dce6fd12c6c9f6@eircom.net>, Ahem A
Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> on Fri, 12 Jan 2024 at 19:39:41 awoke
Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:18:09 +0000
>Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>
>> In the UK it was Olive Oil - back in the days when the only place you
>> could buy olive oil was from a Chemist (Pharmacist), in tiny bottles.
>
> Olive oil is one of the least risky and generally effective type of
>ear drops. I'm not sure whether the only advantage of getting it in ickle
>bockles from the chemist is the syringe or whether it is actually different
>somehow from the stuff I cook with.
>
It had those magic letters 'BP' after the Ingredient 'Olive Oil'. I
suspect Olive Oil BP has been filtered and sterilised but
IANAPharmacist.

--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

In article <uns8kd$3jenr$1@dont-email.me>, Richard Robinson
<richard@qualmograph.org.uk> on Fri, 12 Jan 2024 at 20:49:17 awoke
Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>Ahem A Rivet's Shot said:
>> On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:18:09 +0000
>> Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In the UK it was Olive Oil - back in the days when the only place you
>>> could buy olive oil was from a Chemist (Pharmacist), in tiny bottles.
>>
>> Olive oil is one of the least risky and generally effective type of
>> ear drops. I'm not sure whether the only advantage of getting it in ickle
>> bockles from the chemist is the syringe or whether it is actually different
>> somehow from the stuff I cook with.
>
>The pharmacy I was in this afternoon sells squeezy droppers on
>their own.
>
Interesting, I do not think Boots do; however at the bottom of our
street there is a hairdresser supplier who does sell little glass
bottles with droppers. Just alongside the H2O2 bottles.
--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

On 12/01/2024 in message <xn0ogqftk16a37l003@news.individual.net> Jeff
Gaines wrote:

>
>Can anybody recommend ear drops that will dissolve ear wax please? They
>seem to come with a variety of additives like Hydrogen Peroxide or Sodium
>Bicarbonate and I have no idea of that is good or bad. Surgery doesn't do
>syringing any more.

Many thanks for all the replies, much appreciated :-)

I have ordered the Otex Express pack as suggested by Tim+ (thanks!) and
will give it a whirl.

In the days when surgeries did this sort of thing the nurse told me I had
a narrow, hairy, canal. Wasn't sure quite how to take that!

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
640k ought to be enough for anyone.
(Bill Gates, 1981)

Nicholas D. Richards wrote:

>> The pharmacy I was in this afternoon sells squeezy droppers on
>> their own.
>>
> Interesting, I do not think Boots do;

They do, if you ask at the pharmacy counter ...

"Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote in
news:xn0ogrufg2lrwtu006@news.individual.net:

> On 12/01/2024 in message <xn0ogqftk16a37l003@news.individual.net> Jeff
> Gaines wrote:
>
>>
>>Can anybody recommend ear drops that will dissolve ear wax please?
>>They seem to come with a variety of additives like Hydrogen Peroxide
>>or Sodium Bicarbonate and I have no idea of that is good or bad.
>>Surgery doesn't do syringing any more.
>
> Many thanks for all the replies, much appreciated :-)
>
> I have ordered the Otex Express pack as suggested by Tim+ (thanks!)
> and will give it a whirl.
>
> In the days when surgeries did this sort of thing the nurse told me I
> had a narrow, hairy, canal. Wasn't sure quite how to take that!

Which end of you was she looking at?

--
Peter
-----

On 13/01/2024 in message <XnsB0F861B03A731Factura3476@135.181.20.170>
Peter wrote:

>>In the days when surgeries did this sort of thing the nurse told me I
>>had a narrow, hairy, canal. Wasn't sure quite how to take that!
>
>Which end of you was she looking at?

:-)

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
Did you know on the Canary Islands there is not one canary?
And on the Virgin Islands same thing, not one canary.

On 2024-01-12, Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
>
> Can anybody recommend ear drops that will dissolve ear wax please? They
> seem to come with a variety of additives like Hydrogen Peroxide or Sodium
> Bicarbonate and I have no idea of that is good or bad. Surgery doesn't do
> syringing any more.
>
The hydrogen peroxide ones always jbex for me when needed. But I usually use
the shower head to wash out my lugs and seldom need anything else.

The 3% solution (10 Vol) is perfectly adequate. You can use the 6% but the
9% is likly to cause skin irritation.

Put a few drops in the affected ear. Leave it for a few minutes or if it
stops fizzing before that.

https://www.entsinusorlando.com/earwax-removal/hydrogen-peroxide-solution/

--
Bernard Peek
bap@shrdlu.com
Wigan

I read a medical paper from one of the major medical journals. Some American
medics were on a family vacation on an island a hundred miles from nowhere.
A family member had impacted wax from poking it with a cotton-bud. They
improvised.

A super-soaker filled with warm water and a little detergent proved
adequate. In the acknowledgements at the end of the paper they thanked their
sprog for the loan of equipment.

--

On 2024-01-12, Brian Gaff <brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:
> No they are done by opticians quite often at a number of quid a throw. I
> think its going down the same road as dentistry. Both the additives you
> mention are supposed to liquidise and unstuck the wax, but it does not
> actually all come out and some ear cleaning with the pulsating water jet on
> the end of a small scope they poke in the ear seems to work well.
> Unfortunately as one ages, the expected improvement seems to be less as I
> fancy the high frequency bits are lost.
Bernard Peek
bap@shrdlu.com
Wigan