Audiclean - Ear wax remover

[fairydust]

Has anyone ever tried Audiclean - dd gets quite alot of wax in her ears and i was considering getting this but just wondering if anyone has any views on this.

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Haven't tried it but my dh wants to. I'll keep you posted!!!

We're going to try this too FD as like your DD, DS2 has always had quite waxy ears. Will let you know how we get on with it

Can you buy it in Boots now? Website says stock coming soon. Am going to go in and ask as I am deaf in one ear today - will let you know.

Oh, oh, oh. I'm soooo glad someone has brought this up - I've been meaning to ask about it. I get such waxy ears, and it's just getting worse and worse - less than a year between syringings now.

Having said that, the nurse at my practice recommended good old olive oil, warmed and applied with a medicine syringe. Another thing that has been suggested is ear candles - anyone tried them?

emsiewill, they do say that will happen - mine are the same - when you remove all the wax it's produced faster and faster to replace what's gone, apparently. Ears are very intelligent organs.

Last time I had mine done the nurse turned the suction up so high it hurt - never been the same since. Ow.

Couldn't get any in Boots, they stock it but didn't have any in. Got Otex instead. Fed up with ears, mine are getting worse too, and syringing is horrid

I actually enjoy having my ears syringed - they feel so clean afterwards, and you can hear the ants walking around! I just hate that cottonwool-headed feeling you have when they're full of wax.

My surgery now has a new policy that you can't have both ears syringed on the same day - that's a real pain.

Emsiewill,

How did your surgery come up with that idea then?

I honestly think that there is someone in the NHS whose job it is to think up ways to inconvenience patients further.

apparently it's because when the ears are syringed there's a risk that infection will be introduced, so they don't want to risk both ears getting infected. Don't see what difference it makes if the infection in one ear starts 2 days after the other, myself .

Just means you have to find time to go to the surgery twice.

I had my ears cleaned with the earcandles last week for mums day, lovely and peaceful and would reccomend it. It was 14 to get it done, bu the candles are only 5.00 something, you pay for the luxury of peace quiet and soothing music. Lovely blobs of wax come out...

I love ear candles (aka Hopi ear candles but apparently they have nothing to do with Native Americans) they are deeply satifying to use.

The first time we used them I laughed until I cried at DH with the smouldering candle stuck in his ear. So not very relaxing for him.

Agree with charliecat about the lovely blobs of wax that come out - it is impossible not to check the stump to see how much comes out...

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What ON EARTH are ear candles? Tell me more!

Finally, my suspicions are confirmed! You are all bonkers here in mumsnet land!
someone tell me what ear candles are please?

I have had lots of ear problems over the past few years and my consultant said THE very best thing for wax or dry ears is to syringe a couple of drops of warmed (NOT hot!!!) olive oil into each ear - after all the syringing and medication I have used over the years, I can tell you its true!
Its about £1 from the chemist for a bottle and the dropper is about the same

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I read about audiclean in Which? mag or something like that and it didn't get a glowing report, not all it's cracked up to be, apparently. My dd gets lots of wax. Have recently cleared a lot of it by using Earex for a week followed by sodium bicarbonate ear drops for a week. How old do kids have to be before getting ears syringed?

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Wow.

surely using ear candles (just the name makes me laugh!) would dry your ear canal out? That would mean you would produce extra wax to both lubricate the canal and to trap the extra bits that would otherwise make their way down the ear canal??????
Or in my case, probably set my hair on fire!

I think I'll stick with the olive oil (about 1ml the nurse recommended) once a week in both ears. Gives me an excuse to lie down on the sofa and not move for an hour, anyway.

Not sure if this is the same one as in the which report (would check but they've all gone into storage). if it is, there were a couple of people who had severe problems with it - nauseau & dizzy spells, so check it out before you use it on children.

Well I've used ear candles for years on and off (don't have a very serious earwax problem)and never set myself or anyone else on fire - you would have to be pretty inept. You supervise someone else with them in rather than trying to put them in your own ears. So unless you fell asleep or were otherwise called away...

Plus they don't drip (or the ones I've used) because they aren't like normal drippy wax candles.

My niece had really bad ear wax and we used them on her - not only did it work beautifully and remove the wax gently and without discomfort, she seems to suffer less now.

You pays yer money, and yer takes yer choice...

BTW my niece was about 8 when she had her first treatment - and no nausea or dizziness or anything. I guess it is like a lot of treatments - different things affect people in different ways.