NurseTightscrubs

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1. Anyone have experience with "ear candles"

   NurseTightscrubs replied to Nurse Ratched's topic in General Nursing

   Well... I have used these candles and exactly as described above you insert one through a hole in a paper plate to catch any drippings (although they rarely drip) and burn the candle... the candle itself is a hollow cone of weaved paper coated th...

2. Anyone have experience with "ear candles"

   NurseTightscrubs replied to Nurse Ratched's topic in General Nursing

   Ratched, My ear canal is abnormally narrow, the wax does not naturally clear as it should. I never... EVER use Q-tips as they seem to only cause the wax to become impacted. Over time the wax hardens along the canal walls and as the passage narro...

3. Anyone have experience with "ear candles"

   NurseTightscrubs replied to Nurse Ratched's topic in General Nursing

   Nurse Ratched, I'm curious if you used a peroxide / warm water flush to remove the large wax build up from the female patient? About 12 years ago a doctor flushed my ear and then used a curette to remove a hard wax build up the size of a M&M...