Discomfort in the ears is quite common for people. Various human ear diseases provoke multiple causes. Problems arise due to colds, inflammatory processes, pathologies of neighboring organs, tumors, sulfur plugs and other factors.
Pain penetrating the ear and hearing loss encourage people to visit an otolaryngologist immediately. He, having made a diagnosis, chooses a method for treating a particular disease. Along with the official methods of treatment, a wellness novelty is advertised - ear candles to remove plugs and eliminate some ENT diseases.
Ear diseases: symptoms and types
There are a lot of ear diseases. A person suffers if the middle ear is injured or the eardrum is damaged. Discomfort in the ear arises from otomycosis, otosclerosis and cerumen plugs. Ears are affected by boils, acute tubo-otitis, chronic otitis media, otogenic sepsis, cochlear neuritis and other diseases.
Patients are troubled by the symptoms that accompany many diseases (they experience headaches and dizziness, their body temperature is elevated). Therefore, the doctor always pays attention to accompanying signs. The resulting diseases of the human ear sometimes do not proceed without impaired coordination, nausea, vomiting, deformation of the facial contours.
Ear candles description
Ear candles are hygienic non-drug products. They are designed to care for the ears. Phytocandles are made in the form of long tubes. Devices are filled with beeswax, medicinal herbs subjected to cryogenic treatment, propolis. Essential oils are added to them. There are ear candles, the price of which is democratic, with eucalyptus, lavender, mint and other oils.
Burning candles create a vacuum and fill the ear with comfortable warmth. Thanks to this, hearing improves, nasal breathing is facilitated, sulfur plugs are gently removed, dizziness disappears, headaches disappear, blood circulation in the ear is activated, anxiety is relieved and sleep normalizes.
A natural remedy with a pronounced hygienic, thermal and aromatic effect, helps to clean the ear cavities. Heated wax, melting, exudes pleasant soothing aromas of herbs and essential oils. Phytoncides, released together with oils, produce a powerful disinfecting, antispasmodic and analgesic effect, relieve stress and fatigue.
Indications for the use of ear candles
In most cases, ear candles are used to remove plugs and relieve hearing loss. They relieve migraines and headaches. This remedy stops the course of inflammatory processes caused by diseases of the upper respiratory tract. They are suitable for therapysinusitis and rhinitis.
They are used for hearing loss, frontal sinusitis and pharyngitis. Apply ear candles for otitis media and sinusitis. They help with disturbed sleep, stressful situations, noise that occurs in the ear canals. The remedy relieves excessive nervousness and irritability, helps to get rid of otosclerosis and tonsillitis.
Ear plugs: how to get rid of
Nature made sure that the ear plugs came out on their own. However, in some people, the channels are very small and curved in a special way. It is difficult for sulfur to escape from such channels, so it becomes necessary to clean them.
The size of plugs not removed in a timely manner increases, which leads to deafness, accumulation of moisture in the channels and the development of infection. The problem arises - how to remove the cork from the ear (an ordinary turunda cannot cope with the task). However, like phyto-candles. A doctor and a special tool are needed to extract a large cork.
Ears with normal canals protected by sulfur (natural lubrication) are classified as self-cleaning organs. With the removal of excess sulfur from the ear cavity to the outside, a special purification mechanism copes. Sulfur is easily removed by washing the ears and external passage. Only the part of the passage that the little finger can penetrate is cleaned.
Situations are different, sometimes there is a need to clean the ear with a normal anatomy. Moreover, a person does not particularly think about how to remove a cork from an ear; since childhood, he has known simple ways to eliminate the accumulatedsulfur. But he doesn't always know what dangers they pose.
Cotton swabs, matches and other available means are not suitable for removing corks. With their help, it is not always possible to remove the sulfur, and it is very easy to push it deep into the ear canal. In this case, a blockage of the passage occurs, which can cause deafness, or the development of otitis media is provoked. In addition, you can injure your eardrum and lose your hearing.
There are other, much safer means of removing sulfur. It is removed with hydrogen peroxide, special pharmaceutical preparations, weak soda solution or ear candles.
Ear candle application method
A small amount of wax from the ear cavities is removed with phytocandles. The procedure is not complete without matches, cotton swabs, baby cream, tissue paper, cotton swabs and a glass of water. All this must be within reach.
The patient's head is protected with a cap or handkerchief and offered to sit comfortably on the right (left) side. The area adjacent to the auricle is lightly massaged with baby cream. A tissue napkin is placed on the ear, in which a slit is made, coinciding with the external auditory meatus.
Then move on to a procedure to help remove the wax plug from the ear. The top of the candle is set on fire, and the bottom, wrapped in foil, is carefully aligned with the ear canal. The combustion of the tube is closely monitored. When it burns to the mark, its residue is carefully pulled out and stewed in water.
The procedure is completed by cleaning the ear canal (a cotton swab is suitable for manipulation) and installing a cotton swab for 10-15 minutes. Then conduct a similar session for the second ear. It is not recommended to wash the head after the procedure. In chronic diseases, 5-6 sessions per week are carried out, acute forms do not allow more than 1 procedure in 2-3 days.
Operation principle
The tube slowly burns, forming a vacuum inside the ear, pushing the wax out. The ear cavity is saturated with propolis vapors and phytoncides concentrated in herbs and oils. Slightly reduced pressure and vibrating air due to the movement of the flame performs a gentle massage of the eardrum.
A pleasant warmth is felt in the ear. There is an equalization of pressure in the ear cavity, sinuses and forehead. Favorable physical effect normalizes pressure and relieves pain, promotes free nasal breathing and activation of olfactory sensations.
The patient hears the pleasant crackling and noise of the flame, enjoys the relaxing effect that the ear candles create to remove plugs and treat at the same time.
Safety precautions
Such a procedure for extracting sulfur requires compliance with safety measures. A session at home should be carried out by third parties, and not by the patient himself. The candle is burning, which means you need to take care of fire safety! It is necessary to control the process of its combustion. Burning the straw below the mark is unacceptable (may result in a burn).
If ear plug removal plugs are carelessly used, inthe ear canal will get ash and wax. This will not lead to he alth hazards. The auricle just needs to be carefully freed of ash and wax after the procedure.
Contraindications
Product should not be used by people with:
- purulent discharge from the ears;
- high temperature;
- disturbances in the ear canal;
- damaged eardrums;
- head tumors;
- allergic to drug ingredients.
Reviews
People who have experienced the effect of phytocandles share their experiences. It would seem that for a person whose sulfur does not come out on its own, and chronic diseases do not recede, they are an effective tool for cleaning the ears. However, ear candles are not so simple and safe. Reviews of those who used the tool directly speak about this.
They are not allowed to be used for the treatment of, for example, purulent otitis media and the extraction of large plugs. Careless procedure leads to injury. Of course, songs are sung to the “madness of the brave”. The only question is who this song will be about - a hero who has recovered his he alth, or an eccentric who has lost his hearing.
Phytocandles help only with their reasonable and competent use. Do not take rash steps and self-medicate. Doctors are next to each of us. Consulting with them is a matter of minutes, from which the benefits are enormous. Better yet, entrust the procedure to an otolaryngologist. It will remove the "deposits" of sulfur without consequences.
