Cleaning your ear, is it necessary or harmful?

Australia
January 18, 2007 10:02pm CST
Routinely we will make sure that our hygiene is well taken are before we face everyday world. beside the showers and grooming, cleaning the ears is included in our if not daily, maybe weekly or monthly agenda. The thing is, is it necessary to clean the ear especially the inside of the ear. well let's see in the natural aspect of things, no single of our fingers is made small enough to clean the inside of the ear and even if given a mirror we can't see the inside of our ear. Let's just go straight to the point, we do not need to clean the inside (ear canal) ear because the ear has it's on natural way to disposed all the wax and debris inside the ear. By using the cotton bud or q-tip we will push the wax further in and distributed the natural flora of the ear and eventually we will have chronic ear itchiness, impacted wax and finally fungus infection inside the ear canal not to mentioned the possibility of trauma to the ear. well final say just let nature takes in course, the inside of the ear will clean it self up and just clean the ear pinna and the opening to the ear canal.if you in doubt please do visit the nearest ENT doctor. well that's what I think and from my experience. Any comment, please do reply.
1 response
@darckj (885)
• Philippines
19 Jan 07
i heard that a daily ear cleaning can further infect your ear canal,.. the explanation is found in your description, and i guess i do not need to repeat that.. cleaning our ears two to three times a week is advisable [just heard this fact from other people].. are there EENTs around here? please check this one out..^^