[CAUT] Ear wax

[David Love]

Who knows, maybe the simple act of shoving a candle in you ear moved something around. I am a serious skeptic about health food store cures. I prefer science. When it comes to protecting such a valuable resource as you hearing I would err on the side of caution and start with an ENT. BTW watch out for those colon cleansing ads too.


David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu>
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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:45:22 
To: <caut at ptg.org>
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Subject: Re: [CAUT] Ear wax

No myth my friend.  Doubters.  How do you explain my open ears today, 
then?  Act of God?

Paul




From:
"David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
To:
<caut at ptg.org>
Date:
12/01/2010 11:24 AM
Subject:
Re: [CAUT] Ear wax



Yet another urban health myth.  Below is just one site debunking this 
sometimes dangerous and useless procedure.  There are many more. 
 
 
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1103/how-do-ear-candles-work
 
 
David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com
 
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Zeno 
Wood
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 8:55 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Ear wax
 
Paul,
This would be a good email for the PTG hearing list.
-Zeno
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Paul T Williams <
pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote:
Hi All, 

Have any of you ever done an "ear candle" to remove ear wax?  I did it 
last night with my wife's help, and it's amazing how much better my ears 
are working today!  It really sucks out a lot of junk you can't get with a 
Q-tip. I had a cold a few weeks ago, and my ears have been bugging me ever 
since.  Just plugged up.  I can open them up ala SCUBA style to equalize 
pressure when diving, but they would just close back up a few minutes 
later.  Tuning wasn't so much of a problem, but voicing was really 
difficult before I did this.  I'm still working on the Sty D with the new 
Steinway hammer installation, and am in the final fine tuning of the 
voicing, and this morning, it was much easier to hear what was going on. 

Best, 
Paul 
 


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