I am often asked if ear candles are a good way to manage excessive cerumen (wax) in the ear canals. Ear candles are about the worst thing that you can do to your ears. It is very difficult to clean your own ears, because you can’t see what you are doing. When you use an ear candle, most of the debris that you see is soot from the candle. There have been incidences of people setting their hair on fire, burning skin, rupturing ear drums, getting candle wax stuck on the walls of the ear canal … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2014
Gradual Hearing Changes
Hearing changes so gradually, that we often don’t notice that we are missing things. Often it is a family member or friend who will first mention that you may be having a little problem. It is easy to make light of this. “You’re mumbling, the television is interfering”, etc. When hearing changes, it is not like when your vision changes. When your vision changes, everything becomes a little out of focus, so you go back to your eye doctor. When your hearing changes, the sounds just disappear, … [Read more...]