Waxing Lyrical...

It doesn't happen too often but I suffer with a loss of hearing(a dullness)due to ear wax.

The easiest and cheapest solution to this is not to go to the expense of special products or ear syringing but good old olive oil. A little bit of cotton wool to stop it running out of the ear. And after maybe ten minutes just remove the cotton wool. Apply perhaps for two or three days and just in the morning and at night.

Never ever push anything into the ear, not only are you likely to damage your ear drum but if you have wax chances are you will compact it and make the problem worse.

The couple of times I have done this I took notice of something I had read in a magazine on a Dr's page(I think)and you buy little olive oil capsules at the pharmacy.

Often though I'd forget to use them and they'd go out of their expiry date.

The other day I thought, it was time to buy some again...the usual high street chemist no longer stocks them and suggested going to a larger branch, another doesn't stock them at all. And then the pharmacy at the local supermarket cannot get olive oil let alone the capsules!

So I came up with my own idea.

Simple really(so why did I not think of it before?)

I thought, I'll buy an eye dropper...you know the little glass tube with a bulbous rubber handle(they had a small bottle with dropper for 47p)and then the pharmacist said as you are in the supermarket buy a small bottle of olive oil from the shelve where it is there for cooking. I had wondered before if you can cook in olive oil and it is of a high quality and pure, and is taken internally, why not?

I found one that is very mild and light(I took it back to the pharmacy and was given the ok for the one I had chosen)This has all worked out cheaper than buying the capsules or a bottle olive oil in a chemist.

And if it is not used to cure loss of hearing, I can use it to cook something nice for a meal or as a dressing.