Month: January 2014

Hearing aids aren’t very fun at the best of times. When they constantly stop up with earwax they can be downright maddening! Take heart, this is a universal frustration and, for the most part, can’t be helped. Your ear produces wax as both a skin conditioner and as a defensive mechanism to prevent the intrusion (or expedite the removal) of …

Earwax – What’s the Obsession? If you’ve been on social media over the past few years, you’ve probably watched videos of people cleaning their ears. You’ve either been very interested in watching those videos or flicked away immediately from watching them. Either way, earwax is having a big moment to understand and realize what it does for your ears. Who …

A patient came in last week with tremendous pain in his right ear. He was cleaning his ears with a cotton swab and succeeded only in firmly packing the earwax further in his ear. In an effort to remove the wax, he used an over-the-counter wax softener that made the impacted wax swell and put additional pressure in his eardrum. …