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Inspite of taking care you still need to keep a check for early signs of hear loss. How Taking care of your hearing health can be divided into three parts:

1. Cleaning

2. Prevent and treat infections

3. Avoid unnecessary noise

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Right way to clean your ears at home:

1.  Wipe with a damp washcloth: gently rubbing around the outside with a damp washcloth.

2. Rinse your ear canal: Soak a cotton ball in warm water, a saline solution, mineral oil or hydrogen peroxide, then hold it over your ear canal and tilt your opposite ear toward the floor.

3. Try over the counter ear drops: the same function of “ear irrigation” as the above method but may also come with a dropper or bulb syringe.

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What not to use to clean your ears:

Ear candling: The food and drug administration has long recommended against using risk of ear candles due to the risk of ear burns, punctures and more.

Ear cleaning kits that go deep

Prevent Ear Infections:

Apart from cleaning ears at home, nasal irrigation with saline to, to remove irritants and allergens from the nasopharynx, the back of the nose where Eustachian tube opening is.

Symptoms of ear infection:

Mild pain or discomfort inside your ear

A persistent feeling of pressure inside your ear

Pus like ear drainage

Hearing Loss

In case symptoms keeps getting worsened then you need to see the doctor. They may initially prescribe antibiotics. It’s important to complete the entire subscription even if it looks fine in next 2-3 days. In case of prolonged hear loss, you need to meet the audiologist clinic. The audiologist will take you through diagnosis steps and will recommend the correct hearing aids for you.

Although the hearing aid technology has improved a lot. The range of hearing aids usually starts from 15 thousand till several lacs in India. These days’ hearing aids can be so small that it’s hard to identify that you are wearing one. But obviously to save yourself from all of these hassles we can simply follow “Prevention is better than cure”.