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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ For a few days before the water irrigation I would suggest to use Debrox drops on your ears (follow package instructions). It will soften the ear wax and help it to come out.

If you don't use something like this beforehand, the urgent care may send you back telling you to use this for four days or so and then go back to urgent care for irrigation. It is important to soften it up before seeing an urgent care staff.[/quote]
I think it depends on the texture of your earwax. We don’t all have the same earwax.

When my kids were little, they’d get a lot of earwax buildup and it was difficult for the pediatrician to flush it out of their ears with irrigation if we didn’t soften the wax first. Instead of using Debrox, she’d have me put some extra light olive oil into a tiny bottle with a dropper and then place the bottle in a cup of warm water to warm the oil gently. I was to have my child lay on their side and then fill their ear with the warm olive oil (they were little, so maybe 4 drops?) and have them stay in the same position for 5 minutes. Then I was to tuck a cotton ball into the treated ear and have them roll onto their other side and I’d repeat the procedure for the other ear. I’d lay a hand towel on their pillow in case anything leaked out of their ears. We’d do this at bedtime. If we did this for several nights before seeing the pediatrician, she could easily flush their ears. Because they kept getting earwax buildups, for while she had me do this procedure once a week, just to keep the earwax soft at all times.

When they got older, I would use a bulb syringe filled with warm water to flush their ears while they were sitting up. We’d put a towel on the shoulder underneath the ear we were flushing and my child would hold a wide bowl under their ear, pressed against their neck, to catch the water.[/quote]

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