How to properly clean ears.
How do you clean your ears? Probably, like many other people, you use cotton buds, informs Ukr.Media.
And how exactly do you use this device?
Introduce into the external auditory canal? Know: you are making a very big mistake!
How not to use cotton buds
It turns out that only the outer part of the auricle can be cleaned with these personal hygiene items.
It is not possible to introduce the device into the external auditory canal.
By the way, there is probably relevant information on the product packaging: if you look carefully, you will most likely find a corresponding warning label or icon.
Inserting a cotton swab into the ear canal, a person does not free it from earwax, but, on the contrary, moves it even deeper.
As a result, the mass is compacted. The risk of sulfur plug formation increases.
How to clean ears
It is necessary to act as follows: soap your hands, carefully insert the little finger into the external auditory canal and begin to rotate the finger very carefully.
Next, you should wash the soapy ear with water.
The cleaned auricle should be soaked with a towel.