How to clean your ears yourself, how to wash your ears at home

1. Use a cotton swab or dropper to dip the carbamide peroxide cleaning solution (if there is no carbamide peroxide solution, you can mix an appropriate amount of warm water with two spoons of 3-4% hydrogen peroxide solution to prepare earwax softening solution).

2. Tilt the head as close as possible to the ear canal.

3. Drip earwax softening solution into your ears (make sure there is no ear infection or eardrum perforation, otherwise it is extremely dangerous to clean your ears at home).

4. Hold the position and wait for 5 to 10 min for the solution to evaporate.

5. Place a cotton ball outside the ear (cotton does not need to be stuffed into the ear, it only needs to be placed outside the ear where it can receive water).

6. Tilt the ear to let the liquid flow out, pull the earlobe upwards and outward, open the ear canal and remove the cotton.

7. In addition to cleaning the ears with earwax cleaning solution, you can also use clean water, and when using water to clean, you must first take a cotton swab and drop water into the ear.

8. Put a dry towel on your ears and then tilt your head in the opposite direction, and pat the outside of your ears with the towel to let the water flow out and dry it.

In fact, the ears can be left out at all, because the ears themselves have a self-cleaning function, and the secretions will naturally fall off the outside of the ears. However, if you prefer hygiene, it is generally cleaned once every half a month or so with an ear picker or a cotton swab, and it is recommended not to dig often, because frequent ear picking is easy to damage the ear.

Disadvantages of picking ears: Some people have itchy ears and often use hairpins, matchsticks, ear pickers, etc. to pick their ears, but in fact, there are many harms in doing so. There is a cerumen gland on the surface of the cartilage on the outside of the human auditory canal, which can secrete a yellowish viscous substance, called cerurumen, commonly known as "earwax" or "ear cicada", which guards the door of the external auditory canal like a "sentinel".

Some of this substance is flaked when dried in the air, and some are like viscous grease. It is usually "hidden" in the external auditory canal, which has the effect of protecting the external auditory canal** and adhering to foreign substances (such as dust, small flying insects, etc.). The external auditory canal is more delicate, connected with the perichondrium closely, with less subcutaneous tissue, poor blood circulation, and if you use improper force when picking your ears, it is easy to cause damage and infection of the external auditory canal, resulting in boils, inflammation, ulceration of the external auditory canal, and even unbearable ear pain, affecting mouth opening and chewing.

It's safer to go to the hospital regularly and ask the doctor to clean your ears. For daily care, it is recommended that you dip a cotton swab strip in some warm water, first gently stick it to the dirt in your ears, wait for it to soften, then gently scrape it off with a cotton swab strip, and finally use a dry cotton swab strip to absorb the residual water in your ears. In addition, it is recommended to apply some moisturizer to the inside of the ear, so that the ear is not easy to produce dandruff.