Clean Your Ears!

Doctors tell us to put nothing smaller than our elbow into our ears. Of course, your own elbow can't be positioned to be put into your ear. Still, the idea is to keep the Q-Tips out.

Many people are now using a new technique instead of the Q-Tip in the ear. It is an ear cone, sometimes called an ear candle. It uses real fire to clean the ears, they say.

Magnetic attraction or convection is said to pull old wax, old dead skin that has accumulated over several years and any other strange things from the ears and into the cone. The cone can be bought online or made at home. It is made of muslin cloth and beeswax. It is shaped into a cone form so the small end can be inserted into the ear. A paper plate is often used to keep any drips from the flaming cone from getting onto the patient's face. Put a hole through a paper plate, and insert the cone point through the hole and into the ear.

They tell me it sometimes snaps, crackles and pops just like rice krispies are said to do. The ear feels much cleaner after the process ends around 40 minutes later. The inverted cone drops out all types of unpleasant stuff that has been inside your head.

Medical people tend to avoid ear coning procedures since the FDA has not approved it yet. Also, their insurance agents probably warn against having open flames near the patients.

If you have experienced this procedure, please give the readers a report. Your opinion will be appreciated.