whisky-dave wrote:

A friend of mine used to go to a specialist that used some sort of candle.

Did he have colonic irrigation and chakra shaving too?

On Friday, 14 December 2018 11:36:18 UTC, Andy Burns wrote:
whisky-dave wrote:

A friend of mine used to go to a specialist that used some sort of candle.

Did he have colonic irrigation and chakra shaving too?

No, but his had a parial hip replacement and he was teacher then landscape gardner.

In article ,
says...


Nurses do irrigation (syringing) as you say, when it's offered, there
is also another procedure available, aspiration, which seems to go
under the name of "micro suction". I have no experience of that, but
it seems some specialist nurses offer it.


A few years ago I had trouble with excessive wax build up.
I used a technique which might be described as micro suction!

I had an empty bottle with an applicator - might have been
Earax, but I can't remeber now.

It had a glass applicator, so the end was smoothly rounded and
much too big to go too far into the ear. I used water as hot
as I could bear it and used the applicator to inject it into
the ear canal, then held it in place so that it sucked the
water back out again. I refilled the applicator at frquent
intervals until, at last, it failed to suck!

Invariably, a thin crooked length of wax was jammed into the
end of the nozzle which I ejected by squeezing the bulb.

Sometimes I would need to repeat this two or three times until
no further wax was sucked out.

--

Terry

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Terry Casey wrote:

A few years ago I had trouble with excessive wax build up.

I once had a boss who used a paperclip to pick wax out of his ears, not
the curved partly un-folded section, but the cut end of the wire!

On 12/12/2018 14:35, Clive Arthur wrote:
On 12/12/2018 13:50, Robin wrote:

snipped

On 12/12/2018 12:51, Clive Arthur wrote:
On 12/12/2018 12:13, wrote:
I've had my ears syringed a couple of times/year for much of my life
but our GP's nurses have stopped offering it. Some specialist
companies are popping-up but it's not cheap so I'm tempted to get
one of the USB otoscopes, like these:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_&_nkw=otoscope+usb
... has anyone here given them a try?

I haven't marked this as OT because its about DIY wax removal -
slightly more relevant to the group than toothbrushes ;-)

Use a cotton bud every day after a shower or bath rather than let it
build up and have someone clean your ears for you.

The overwhelming body of medical (and other[1]) opinion is against
you. It tends to push wax further into the ear. And one slip with a
cotton bud and you can end up with serious problems.

I've been doing this for about 45 years, nearly every day.Â* Yes, you
have to be careful there's no-one around who might knock you.Â* Rotate
the bud as you do it.Â* My ears have been checked and are very clean.

I also wipe my own arse.

Cheers

Just use a matchstick (carefully).

On 12/12/2018 19:29, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:51:56 +0000, Max Demian
wrote:

On 12/12/2018 15:02, Chris Hogg wrote:
Cotton buds have a myriad of uses! :-)

I've only used them to clean heads, capstans and pressure wheels.

If I have very small areas of paint to touch up, like little chips in
plaster or other small blemishes, a cotton bud makes a very convenient
and disposable paint brush substitute.


I've just used one to push some dulux weathershield primer into
the holes left after I moved some gutter brackets.

Next year I'll go back up and fill with proper external filler
and repaint.

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:29:01 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

Terry Casey wrote:

A few years ago I had trouble with excessive wax build up.

I once had a boss who used a paperclip to pick wax out of his ears, not
the curved partly un-folded section, but the cut end of the wire!

A hairgrip (are they still available?), the sort that's an almost
semicircular cross-section, sort of opened out a bit then the ends squeezed
back in to almost parallel, does a good job. Put in past the wax then use
the flat inside to drag it out. The few that I have of my mother's ar
laquered, so even better.
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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Terry Casey wrote:

A few years ago I had trouble with excessive wax build up.

I once had a boss who used a paperclip to pick wax out of his ears, not
the curved partly un-folded section, but the cut end of the wire!

Yeah, my sister used to do that when I was a teenager.

Worked fine for her, but that is clearly more risky.

On 15/12/2018 08:39, Tim J wrote:


"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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Terry Casey wrote:

A few years ago I had trouble with excessive wax build up.

I once had a boss who used a paperclip to pick wax out of his ears,
not the curved partly un-folded section, but the cut end of the wire!

Yeah, my sister used to do that when I was a teenager.

Worked fine for her, but that is clearly more risky.

I use a paperclip in that way as a tooth pick - but *never* in my ears.
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Roger Mills wrote:

I use a paperclip in that way as a tooth pick

I use a small ty-rap

"Roger Mills" wrote in message
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On 15/12/2018 08:39, Tim J wrote:


"Andy Burns" wrote in message
...
Terry Casey wrote:

A few years ago I had trouble with excessive wax build up.

I once had a boss who used a paperclip to pick wax out of his ears,
not the curved partly un-folded section, but the cut end of the wire!

Yeah, my sister used to do that when I was a teenager.

Worked fine for her, but that is clearly more risky.

I use a paperclip in that way as a tooth pick - but *never* in my ears.

Jeeze, I have never done either. I use real toothpicks for teeth.
I have used electrical resistors for toothpicks tho, much softer wire.

On Friday, 14 December 2018 19:17:13 UTC, Terry Casey wrote:
In article ,
says...


Nurses do irrigation (syringing) as you say, when it's offered, there
is also another procedure available, aspiration, which seems to go
under the name of "micro suction". I have no experience of that, but
it seems some specialist nurses offer it.


A few years ago I had trouble with excessive wax build up.
I used a technique which might be described as micro suction!

I had an empty bottle with an applicator - might have been
Earax, but I can't remeber now.

It had a glass applicator, so the end was smoothly rounded and
much too big to go too far into the ear. I used water as hot
as I could bear it and used the applicator to inject it into
the ear canal, then held it in place so that it sucked the
water back out again. I refilled the applicator at frquent
intervals until, at last, it failed to suck!

Invariably, a thin crooked length of wax was jammed into the
end of the nozzle which I ejected by squeezing the bulb.

Sometimes I would need to repeat this two or three times until
no further wax was sucked out.

I think that is a simialr theory to who the hopi wax candles work by gradually sucking. I wonder if Mr Dyson could come up with some sort of digital motor that could do the same. :-)

On Friday, 14 December 2018 22:22:41 UTC, Andrew wrote:
On 12/12/2018 14:35, Clive Arthur wrote:
On 12/12/2018 13:50, Robin wrote:

snipped

On 12/12/2018 12:51, Clive Arthur wrote:
On 12/12/2018 12:13, wrote:
I've had my ears syringed a couple of times/year for much of my life
but our GP's nurses have stopped offering it. Some specialist
companies are popping-up but it's not cheap so I'm tempted to get
one of the USB otoscopes, like these:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_&_nkw=otoscope+usb
... has anyone here given them a try?

I haven't marked this as OT because its about DIY wax removal -
slightly more relevant to the group than toothbrushes ;-)

Use a cotton bud every day after a shower or bath rather than let it
build up and have someone clean your ears for you.

The overwhelming body of medical (and other[1]) opinion is against
you. It tends to push wax further into the ear. And one slip with a
cotton bud and you can end up with serious problems.

I've been doing this for about 45 years, nearly every day.Â* Yes, you
have to be careful there's no-one around who might knock you.Â* Rotate
the bud as you do it.Â* My ears have been checked and are very clean.