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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
It works ok. Turns wax water soluble. Trouble is it may take away some lubrication for future wax to escape essentially causing this to happen again.
Not a solution with evidence, but likely works. They are both peroxides doing the same thing, though carbamide peroxide is likely less irritating.
Mineral oil can help decrease the viscosity of the wax helping your ear to clean itself. A drop a couple of times a week can often take care of the problem
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Just to add to this, DO NOT USE Q-TIPS. For the love of humanity, I still cannot understand why people keep sticking things into their ears. To date, I have had to refer to ENT a couple of times for large hematomas (gigantic blood clot from ear instrumentation) and had to take a pair of tweezers to pull out the cotton tip of a q-tip from some guy's ear.
Generally, just use some Cerumol twice a week. If it still feels plugged, use the Cerumol daily for a few days, book an appointment with a doctor, and he/she will flush it out for you and visualize the tympanic membrane afterwards.