Dear Abby, High freq hearing can be helped a lot by keeping the ears clean. They make more wax the older you get. After a few years of not cleaning, the wax hardens and gets stuck in there. Wax reduces hearing sensitivity, especially highs.
The body makes wax to protect the ear canal from debris and infection, the amount is based on the environment. Everyone's environment (including food and job) differs greatly so people have different amount of wax forming. Of course your doctor can clean them for $100 and a 2 week wait, or you can do it yourself. Get a red baby syringe bulb from any drug store, or online. Run a hot soapy tub, immerse your ears for 15-20 minutes. Sit up and drain them occasionally to get new hot water and new soap in there. Fill up the bulb with water and get all the air bubbles out by squeezing it with tip pointed up underwater. Put the tip into your ear but DO NOT SEAL IT OFF, DO NOT PRESSURIZE THE EAR CANAL! Just aim it at the ear canal from 1/8 inch away, and squeeze the bulb squirting the water in there. The stream remains in laminar flow and will enter the canal and do the cleaning without direct contact or pressurizing the canal. If it hurts, stop and go slower. If it doesn't do anything, squeeze faster. After one or two tries, a big black chunk of wax will pop out and you will have better hearing. http://www.med-worldwide.com/product1235.html $1.63 is the cheapest high-end audio upgrade available!! A doctor uses the same method, using a big metal water squirting syringe and is much less gentle than you are to yourself. Ear cleaning drops that come in the little kit are just glycerin (vegetable fat soap) which softens the wax so you don't have to take a bath. The bath works better because gets it all out at once. The little blue ear bulb is just for rinsing the soap and it cannot blast out the wax like the big red one. Try one ear at a time to hear the difference! If you think you don't have ear wax, you will most likely be very surprised! Your brain adapts to the slow changes over time so you think you can still hear just fine. Sometimes the wax will make the ear canal itchy but not after it dries out over the years. Sincerely, Disgusting -- richidoo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ richidoo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3097 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24693 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
