1.05.2017

American Academy of Otolaryngology updated guidelines ear cleaning

wrong way to clean the ears

The American Academy of Otolaryngology recently updated her ear cleaning instructions.

(Daily Mirror, USA) - On Tuesday, the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery its guidelines updated to include the ear for cleaning a list of suitable methods. Update guidelines for cleaning and to avoid objects the ear, contains in our ears shake excess wax to remove.

For most of us, a shower or bath is not complete without a thorough cleaning of the ear. Usually we perform this procedure swabs or ear sprays designed to clean and remove the earwax. The problem is that we earwax is believe synonymous with dirt. Nothing could be further from the truth, and ear cleaning instructions show updates that harm to the above methods for more than good.

On behalf of the American Academy of Otolaryngology spoken Seth R. Schwartz, MD, and health team coordinator with updates. Schwartz said that most of us think that earwax is something that detested and could go a long way to keep our own ears go.

In his many ears practice the coordinator of the team realized that the human imagination knows no limits for the development of techniques amazing and potentially dangerous cleaning ears. If Q-Tips ear sprays are not enough to do the work, Schwartz said, patients do not use toothpicks, keys, paper clips, even folded.

Needless to say, that the doctors against such practices when using Q-tips the earwax in the ear canal can still slide, causing permanent damage. In addition, the use of small and sharp objects such as toothpicks or paperclips, we risk our eardrum, which can cause permanent hearing loss.

So what is the proper way to clean our ears without risking anything? Instructions for cleaning ear changes show that the proper way to remove extra ear wax is to use the thin end of a wet towel, preferably after a shower or bath.

Trying to clean the ears with Q-tips or other tools, you can move the lowest in the ear canal. Excessive accumulation of earwax can cause problems with dizziness, pain, pressure and hearing. These deposits can be achieved by mineral oil, baby oil or glycerol.

However, when these methods are useless, you need to respond immediately to your doctor, who cleaned the excess wax with a liquid pump low pressure.

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Tara studied at the University of Oregon with a degree in Spanish literature in 2010. She has lived in Miami for a year and traveled extensively before down in El Paso.

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