Comments on: Useful Useless Fact: Reduce or Eliminate colds

By: jerry

jerry — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:32:34 +0000

this is actually a great way to unclog earwax buildup :-)

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:03:47 +0000

Well, This “palcebo” works pretty damn good, so, I’m going to keep doing it.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:10:11 +0000

This as actually recommended to me by my ear/nose/throat doctor and has been doing the trick ever since.

By: ken

ken — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:39:38 +0000

It actually is the wax it is reacting with. Which is not a bad thing. Piroxide is the major ingredient in most earwax softeners/ removers, and most General Practice docs will tell you to skip the cost of the more expensive over the counter products and use piroxide. It does help to use a bulb syringe and flush the ear (gently) with warm water after as the treatment only softens and loosens earwax, it doesn’t disolve it.

No, it wont prevent colds. You don’t have an entry point for virsuses in your ear, unless you’ve been digging in your ear with something you shouldn’t and punctured your eardrum, in which case you have a much worse problem than a cold.

Wiping with a Q tip will tend to pack earwax, rather than removing it. While piroxide treatment is useful to help undo the compaction, you have to put enough in the ear for it to work. Wiping wont help.

No it wont “eat” or damage you eardrum. And if it stings, it indicates that you have an scratch or abrasion in you ear canal so the piroxide is coming in contact with open nerves, but not damaging them.

For those who are reporting success, google “palcebo effect”.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:23:33 +0000

Wow! It actually worked! I suffer what I call “summer colds” which start with a dose of uncureable stomah pains. I put a few dros in my ear, waited for the bubbiling to subside, and then, about a day later, i was fine. Of course, I could have not been coming down with something, but, at least I got the Ear Wax out of my ears.

*Listens to new gigabeat s*

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:40:59 +0000

Regardless of whether this tip actually works… (for you skeptics).

Lisa: I highly doubt there is anything to worry about if you were to pour or wipe – with a soaked Q-Tip – a liquid of some sort within your ear canal. What happens when we go swimming?

By: akalaas

akalaas — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:06:58 +0000

maybe it doesnt work but it makes you feel bubbling

By: lisa

lisa — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:06:20 +0000

This just seems disturbing. And there’s no way I’d drop anything in my ears, not even water. My ears are so messed up, it’d never come back out. I might have to try the q-tip approach with my next cold.

By: robbie2e

robbie2e — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:01:33 +0000

Yeah… This is soooo BS. Hydrogen Peroxide kills external bacteria, not the virus that cause colds. This could actually do more harm than good. Lets say that Hydrogen Peroxide finds the ear drum particularly tasty… hmmm.

By: drk3p

drk3p — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:19:37 +0000

its total bs, peroxide fusses and kills anything organic, its reacting to the ear wax in your ear. The cold virus doesnt go into your ear.