{"id":1910,"date":"2015-01-08T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entmidwest.fm1.dev\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2022-12-15T13:19:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T19:19:06","slug":"how-do-i-clean-my-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/how-do-i-clean-my-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Clean My Ears?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Help!&nbsp; My ears feel full and I want to clean them myself, but \u2026\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kris_sm2.jpg\" alt=\"kris_sm2\" class=\"wp-image-1913\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>DO NOT PUT ANYTHING SMALLER THAN YOUR ELBOW IN YOUR EARS!\u00a0 Many people want to use q-tips or bobby pins to clean their ears when they feel full.\u00a0 Using a q-tip or anything like that can actually make the fullness worse, if the fullness is indeed due to ear wax impaction.\u00a0 Ear wax is a good thing for our ears.\u00a0 It is the body&#8217;s natural way of protecting the ears and keeping them clean.\u00a0 Some people produce more ear wax than others and need to have their ears cleaned by a medical professional on a regular basis.\u00a0 Those patients who try to clean their ears on their own can actually cause the problem to get worse by pushing the ear wax deeper into the ear or even possibly by damaging the ear drum, both of which can and will affect hearing.\u00a0 Patients have been known to get pieces of a q-tip or other foreign object stuck in their ear and have to see a physician to have that removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do I clean my ears if I can&#8217;t use a q-tip?&nbsp; It&#8217;s best to have a qualified medical professional clean your ears.&nbsp; This is the safest way.&nbsp; If you must do it yourself, just a simple wash rag will do the trick.&nbsp; However, if you are a patient who produces excessive ear wax, it is still best to let the professionals do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help!&nbsp; My ears feel full and I want to clean them myself, but \u2026\u2026 DO NOT PUT ANYTHING SMALLER THAN YOUR ELBOW IN YOUR EARS!\u00a0 Many people want to use q-tips or bobby pins to clean their ears when they feel full.\u00a0 Using a q-tip or anything like that can actually make the fullness worse,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hearing-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}