Ear discomfort quite often bothers people. Various diseases of the human ear provoke multiple causes. Problems arise due to colds, inflammatory processes, pathologies of adjacent organs, tumors, sulfur plugs and other factors.
Ear piercing pain and hearing loss prompt people to visit an otolaryngologist immediately. Having diagnosed, he chooses the method of treatment for 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
Ear diseases are many. A person suffers if the middle ear is injured or the eardrum is damaged. Discomfort in the ear occurs from otomycosis, otosclerosis and sulfur plugs. Ears are affected by boils, acute tubootitis, chronic otitis media, otogenic sepsis, cochlear neuritis and other diseases.
Symptoms accompanying many diseases cause anxiety to patients (they experience headaches and dizziness, their body temperature is elevated). Therefore, the doctor always pays attention to related symptoms. Occurring diseases of the human ear sometimes do not occur without impaired coordination, nausea, vomiting, deformation of the facial contours.
Ear candles: description
Ear candles are hygienic non-medicinal products. They are designed to care for the auricles. 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 affordable, with eucalyptus, lavender, mint and other oil.
Burning candles create a vacuum and fill the auricle with comfortable warmth. Thanks to this, hearing is improved, nasal breathing is facilitated, sulfuric plugs are gently removed, dizziness disappears, headache disappears, blood circulation in the ear is activated, anxiety is removed and sleep is normalized.
A natural product with a pronounced hygienic, thermal and aromatic effect, helps cleanse the ear cavity. The 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 plugs are used to remove plugs and relieve hearing loss. They eliminate migraines and headaches. This remedy stops the course of inflammatory processes caused by diseases of the ENT organs. They are suitable for the treatment of sinusitis 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 arising in the auditory canals. The tool relieves excessive nervousness and irritability, helps get rid of otosclerosis and tonsillitis.
Ear plugs: how to get rid
Nature made sure that the ear plugs came out on their own. However, in some people, the canals are very small and especially curved. Sulfur exit from such channels is difficult; therefore, it becomes necessary to clean them.
The dimensions of timely unexplored plugs increase, which leads to deafness, accumulation of moisture in the channels and the development of infection. There is a problem - how to remove the cork from the ear (an ordinary turunduchka can’t cope with the task). However, like phytocandles. To remove a large cork, a doctor and a special tool are needed.
Ears with normal channels 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 cleansing mechanism copes. Sulfur is easily removed when washing the auricles and the external passage. Only the part of the passage that the little finger is able to penetrate is cleaned.
Situations are different, sometimes there is a need to clean the ear with normal anatomy. Moreover, a person does not particularly think about how to remove the cork from the ear, since childhood he has known simple ways to eliminate accumulated sulfur. But he does not always know what dangers they are fraught with.
Cotton buds, matches and other available means are not suitable for removing traffic jams. With their help, it is not always possible to take out sulfur, and pushing it deep into the ear canal is very simple. In this case, an obstruction 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 sulfur removal options. It is removed with hydrogen peroxide, special pharmaceutical preparations, a weak soda solution or ear candles.
Ear Candle Methods
A small amount of sulfur from the ear cavities is removed by phytocandles. The procedure is complete without matches, cotton swabs, baby cream, tissue, cotton swabs and a glass of water. All this should be within reach.
The patient’s head is protected with a hat or scarf and they are offered to sit comfortably on their right (left) side. The area adjacent to the auricle is lightly massaged with baby cream. A tissue napkin is placed in the ear, in which a cut is made that coincides with the external auditory canal.
Then they go on to a procedure that helps remove the sulfur plug from the ear. The top of the fixture is set on fire, and the bottom wrapped in foil is carefully aligned with the ear canal. The burning tubes are closely watched. 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. Head after the procedure is not recommended to wash. In chronic diseases, 5-6 sessions per week are carried out, acute forms do not allow more than 1 procedure in 2-3 days.
Operating principle
The tube burns slowly, forming a vacuum inside the ear that pushes sulfur out. The ear cavity is saturated with propolis vapors and volatile, concentrated in herbs and oils. A slightly reduced pressure and vibrating air due to the movement of the flame performs a soft massage of the eardrum.
There is a pleasant warmth in the ear. There is an equalization of pressure in the ear cavity, sinuses and forehead. A favorable physical effect normalizes blood pressure and soothes pain, promotes free nasal breathing and enhances olfactory sensations.
The patient hears the flame crackling and rustling pleasantly, enjoying the relaxing effect that the ear plugs create to remove plugs and treatment at the same time.
Security measures
A similar sulfur recovery procedure requires safety precautions. The session at home should be carried out by third parties, not the patient himself. The candle burns, so you need to take care of fire safety! It is necessary to control the combustion process. Burning the tube below the mark is unacceptable (it may result in a burn).
If ear plugs are used carelessly to remove plugs, ashes and wax will enter the ear canal. This will not entail any health hazard. The auricle simply needs to be carefully emptied of ash and wax after the procedure.
Contraindications
The tool can not be used by people with:
- purulent discharge from the ears ;
- fever;
- violations in the auditory canal;
- damaged eardrums;
- tumors of the head;
- allergic to the components of the drug.
Reviews
People who have experienced the action of phyto-candles share their experiences. It would seem that for a person whose sulfur does not come out on their 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. The reviews of those who used the tool directly speak about this.
They should not be used to treat, for example, purulent otitis media and the extraction of large traffic jams. A careless procedure can result in personal injury. Of course, “madness of the brave” is sung by songs. The only question is about whom this song will be composed - a hero who has regained health, or an eccentric who has lost his hearing.
Phytocandles help only with a 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, which is of great benefit. Better yet, entrust the procedure to the otolaryngologist. He will remove the "deposits" of sulfur without consequences.