How to Drain Earwax

Your body produces earwax to defend water, dirt, and germs from entering your inner ear and causing infection. Sometimes you can have too much earwax inside your ears causing you to not be able to hear as clearly. In some cases, ear wax buildup can impair hearing greatly. Fortunately, ear wax can be drained easily at home.

Items needed:

• Ear dropper


• Ear drops


• Towel


• Baby oil


• Stove or Microwave

1. Heat up a few ounces of baby oil on your range or in your microwave. The oil should be hot, but not hot enough to burn your finger. Test it with your finger before use.


2. Fill up your ear dropper with the warm baby oil.


3. Tilt your head to the side with one ear facing upward.


4. Slowly empty the ear dropper of baby oil into the ear that is facing up.


5. Keep your head tilted and wait for the baby oil to do its work for about 1 minute.


6. Empty the excess oil from your ear onto the towel.


7. Fill up the ear dropper with warm baby oil again to treat your other ear.


8. Tilt your head to the opposite side so your other ear is now facing upward.


9. Drop the baby oil into your ear with the ear dropper. Wait 60 seconds for the mineral oil to clean up the ear wax.


10. Empty the rest of the baby oil from your ear onto the towel to complete the treatment.


11. If your hearing is still impaired by ear wax, visit a doctor for an ear wax treatment. Ear wax can be stubborn to remove and doctors have special tools to do it.