ear candles?

[Kent Swafford]

Try this:

http://tinyurl.com/382ec

Direct URL

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/candling.html


People swear by these things, but..  all I know is I had an earache a 
few years ago and a doctor took a look and told me I had no wax at all. 
Nothing that needed to come out.

Kent



On Feb 20, 2005, at 9:27 PM, ilex cameron ross wrote:

> hello hello again, list!
>   
> I took quite a hiatus due to being too busy to keep up with the emails 
> - I figured if I was deleting over half of what I was getting from the 
> list just to maintain my inbox, that was a definite sign to go 
> inactive!
>  
> Soooo, I was in some airy fairy gift shop today and saw ear candles 
> and started wondering what "we" (of the piano tuner persuasion) think 
> of such a device? Everyone I know who has used ear candles says 
> they're just incredible, that even if you clean your ears regularly, 
> these things manage to extract all sorts of gunk out of there, thus 
> vastly improving your hearing. Thing is, you're only supposed to "ear 
> candle" once or twice a year because your ears produce wax as a 
> protective measure. So, my thought/question is that maybe ear candling 
> *isn't* such a great idea?
>  
> Has anyone here done this or heard any scientific research on whether 
> or not it really is a good idea?
>  
> Yep, leave it to me to come back with some off-the-wall question like 
> this ;)
>  
> -"ilex" / holly ross
>