Ear Candles - Bedminster,NJ

I've never used one, but wanted to mention that ear wax diminished significantly for my younger son, and husband, when we eliminated or cut down certain food triggers (for them it's dairy and wheat mostly).

My husband used to go to the doctor for his ear wax!

Good luck, and I hope you post an update if you do use an ear candle. I get freaked putting anything in or near the ears. Let us know how it goes.

Ear candles are dangerous, and they do not work.

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/candlin...

"Why Candling Can't Work
Since ear wax is sticky, the negative pressure needed to pull wax from the ear canal would have to be so powerful that it would rupture the eardrum in the process. However, candling produces no vacuum. Researchers who measured the pressure during candling of ear models found that no negative pressure was created. The same investigators candled eight ears and found that no ear wax was removed and candle wax was actually deposited in some of them!".

To clean ears, I irrigate with a warm water peroxide solution like they do at the doctors office.
http://www.earclear.com

I've done it on my kids, but I've found that doing that AND then using a bulb syringe with warm plain water and irrigating the ear works ten times better than anything alone.

Be careful of anything you read of Quackwatch. He is a delicensed (like had it taken away, not just gave it up) psychologist that takes a little truth and tries to spin it. Most of his articles are based on a little truth and then it turns ugly.

I would just use mineral oil or baby oil to loosen the wax

I have heard that these ear candles are a myth and they can be dangerous because fire is near your son's face. i would not put anything lit near your childs face. Plus there is not enough of a vacuum effect to pull anything out of your son's ears, also any residue that the ear candle proponents say is pulled out of the ear is just candle wax. I would just keep trying with the Debrox. Sorry for your son's ear wax problems.

I have used ear candles adults, not on one so young. It's a slow process and the child would have to be still laying on his side for some time. And it can be dangerous with one so young. It does help a lot. It's rather amazing but mostly for people that have yeast in their ears, yes yeast.

I have use hydrogen peroxide for this problem and it also takes some time but works. Thats if your child can have liquid poured in his ears some people cannot. If he can he might be able to handle it. It's a mess and takes time, but not as long as the candling. I had to do this with my son's ears for many years and he got use to it and it was the only thing that worked, he was almost 5 when we started, he had a very heavy problem with the wax. I would be very gentle and tell him that it's going to feel strange but it's the only way to get the wax out so he'll feel better and he can hear better. I'd sit down with a towel on my lap and get a washcloth handy and peroxside and have him put his head in my lap and pour a small amount in from the lid or tiny contanier and let him know when I was going to pour it. (at first he tried to run away because it feels so strange, but I told him he had to and would comfort him and once he settled down I'd sing a little song to him) It bubbles up and all the wax raises up to the surface and once it all stopped bubbling (wiping around the ear opening as needed) I'd put the washcloth over his ear and have him flip his head to the other side so it could all drain out. Once he got use to it, I'd say, are you ready, 1,2,3, flip and he'd do it readidly. He was quite good about it all, although at first I had to convince him but as time went on he not only got use to it but wanted it bc his ears felt so much better. We had to do it off and on for years. When he was about 15 he didn't need it any more and his ears were fine and have been fine since. A doctor told me about it years ago and it helps a lot.
I know this sounds like a weird remedy but it works when nothing else would. You may want to use a bulb to suck it out too. Sometimes that helps but sometimes it only gets some and pushes some wax deeper. This is a kinda strange problem and we tried the washes and all but they did little compared to this. If you can get your son to do it. Also certain foods can affect this with some people, like sugars, gluetin, wheat products of any kind.

Hope this helps.. Best to you and your little one

Years back we were told to use Debrox for one of our kids with hearing loss due to ear wax. We were told to also get a water pick to rinse it out then. it did work but later another doctor told us that the Debrox made the ear dry and flaky inside and wasn't good to use it because of that. You do need to soften the wax and then rinse it out though as it won't just come out on its own and I'd ask an ENT doctor what they recommend now. The water pick is fine to use if you use it correctly so I would only use it if you are shown how to do it first. We had such an issue with that and later had to take our one son to have the wax dug out at the hospital where they did a hearing test and he was very low on hearing because of the wax only. It was a gruesome thing to have it dug out and he still remembers it very UN fondly. So try to get it taken care of this way and maybe that will keep it from getting worse.

In the first place, YES, good quality ear candles work wonderfully! My husband has had a long history of ear problems from excess wax, the doctors, drugs, etc. failing him for the most part. Our two sons, also had lots of trouble with their years.

We've been using ear candles now for about 25 years, with excellent results.

Also, we found that getting rid of JUNK FOOD in our diet has made us far less likely to get sick, including ear infections (which my husband and sons used to have literally ALL the time).

Last, but not least (sorry, couldn't resist the cliche ;-) my husband paid an ear specialist $175 in the early 1980s ( a fortune, especially back then!) for a few moments of his time, trying to find a solution to his constant ear troubles. That specialist told him to keep a solution of 1/2 rubbing alcohol and 1/2 white vinegar mixed up and handy, and put some into your ears each time that they get wet. It has REALLY made a difference.

Always cut a small 1-inch "x" in the center of one of those cheap/flimsy type paper plates. Put the ear candle through that so that the narrow end of the ear candle is below the plate. It works very well.

Now, with these three things, we rarely have any trouble!
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Had friend do it on a whim. She was freaked by all the goo that came out of her head. She claimed her sinuses cleared afterwards too.

Now considering this is a 4-year-old, you might have a hard time convincing them to let someone put a lit candle on the side of the head long enough to draw the wax. If your child is like mine, she might flip out when she sees the flame, and possible smoke (friend said the candle smoked a bit and that worried even her) and feels the warm heat as well.

In the past, I've had the nurse at the pediatricians office clean their ears with a syringe. They don't like doing it, but they say it is safer than q-tips or other popular methods that can actually make the problem worse or cause an ear infection. Just a thought.