ear candles?

[gordon stelter]

Try the ear cleaning kits ( carbamide peroxide ) sold
at groceries and pharmacies. They work great. You can
also use regular hydrogen peroxide ( weak solution )
to dissolve ear wax. Then blast it out with warm
distilled water and a squeeze bulb. 
     Thump


--- Kent Swafford <kswafford@earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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
> >  
> 
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