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DoctorsOfficeNg:
Trying to remove your earwax can lead to ear damage.


The body produces earwax (or "cerumen" to clean and protect ears. The wax collects dirt, dust and other matter, preventing them from getting farther into the ear.

"There is an inclination for people to want to clean their ears because they believe earwax is an indication of uncleanliness. This misinformation leads to unsafe ear health habits," - [/i]Doctors On The Forum

Everyday activities like moving your jaw and chewing help new earwax push old earwax to the ear opening where it flakes off or is washed off during bathing. This is a normal continual process, but sometimes this self-cleaning process fails. The result: a buildup of wax that can partly or fully block the ear canal.


[i]"Patients often think that they are preventing earwax from building up by cleaning out their ears with cotton swabs, paper clips, ear candles, or any number of unimaginable things that people put in their ears," - Supported By Doctors On DoctorsOfficeNg

"The problem is that this effort to eliminate earwax is only creating further issues because the earwax is just getting pushed down and impacted farther into the ear canal,".

"Anything that fits in the ear could cause serious harm to the ear drum and canal with the potential for temporary or even permanent damage," - DoctorsOfficeNg

The guidelines, published Jan. 3 in the journal Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery, state that excessive cleaning may irritate the ear canal, cause infection and even increase the chances of wax buildup, or cerumen impaction.

The new guidelines offer some tips on how to protect your ears:


1. Don't overdo it when cleaning your ears. Overcleaning can irritate the ear canal and possibly cause an infection.

2. Don't stick things in your ear. Cotton swabs, hair pins and toothpicks can cause a cut in the ear canal, a hole in the eardrum, and/or dislocation of the hearing bones, causing problems including hearing loss, dizziness and ringing.

3. Never use "ear candles." The guidelines say there is no evidence that this alternative medicine practice can remove impacted earwax. And so-called candling might cause serious damage to the ear canal and eardrum.

4. Do seek medical attention if you have hearing loss, ear fullness, drainage, bleeding or ear pain.

5. Do consult your medical provider to find out if you can treat cerumen impaction at home. Certain medical or ear conditions make some treatments unsafe, the authors of the guidelines explained.

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Don't clean them until they cake and become solid and then cause obstruction and then you deaf for one ear. Then you can make N5000 appointment for specialist to see your eye come figure out how to remove cerumen

The problem with Nigeria is that none of the people pretending to be leaders have any stake in Nigeria. Everybody get pikin for oyiboland. How can they fix our universities when all their pikins dey over there.

ponzihater:
Who tell this one say I can stand d stress of working in a hospital with meagre pay and plenty insult. i'm not cut out for dat one

You are cut for Nairaland
Stress-hating bonobo

snowblaq:
......you dont even understand yourself......

Madam Pharmacist aka Kemist, I go send NAFDAC come seal dat ya chemist shed.

frankloloko:
I just got home from a dentist , my 2k wasted for consultation and I've been from one hospital to another . I am really depressed I've bad breath caused by excessive drinking but I've been thinking I've hiv but scared to do the test . I am not sick but people insolate me even to my own workers . I only have problem of sleeping and it's almost one year now . I want to run a test on my body but not hiv . Hiv will be the last . PleAse what kind of test can I do to ensure I am still alive apart frm hiv test

There are many cause of bad breath. Two common ones are:
1. Dehydration: Drink more water. Beer is not water. Juice, coke, sprite, ogogoro is not water. Drink more water.
2. Floss your teeth after brushing them. Hard to say because most Nigerians have no idea what flossing is. Oyibo no tech us that one when they bring us toothpaste and toothbrush. Most food particles hide in between your teeth after meals, In 3 hours, that food particle becomes decayed junk and oozes the bad breath that people perceive near you. No amount of brushing or gargling will remove those particles stuck in between your teeth. N2000 would have bought you a tooth brush, toothpaste and hopefully a dental floss.

If you drink too much, stop today. Alcohol is the most common cause of hepatitis in Nigeria. Hepatitis is the most common cause of liver cancer in Nigeria today. HIV does not cause cancer. Alcohol does. Smoking does. Guaranteed. If scared of HIV test, don't bother. But stop sex or do it safely. I would test if I were you. That way you can start treatment. HIV doesn't kill. But untreated HIV leads to AIDS, and with AIDS, even catarrh will kill you.

ponzihater:
Chronic inability to hear word is ur problem. You have no license to prescribe yet you want a fellow human being to stick her head in her rectum for trying to make u a more reasonable human being. The thunder that will fire u and all other quacks is still unfrozen by MMM.

MMM go soon buy your business plus that your yeye license wey you think say na only you get

snowblaq:
.. ....are you for real??...Augmentin 375mg is for children.....adult dose is either 625mg or 1000mg depending on the severity of the infection.....Augmentin does'nt present as 500mg... and I cant help wondering how u would advice him to get 500mg dose from a 625mg tablet........besides....what this guy needs is a sensitivity test...so he doesnt just go popping pills uneccessarily........................stop giving false advice.....it can kill..

Thanks for the correction. Augmentin is Amoxil + Clavulanate inn 4:1 ratio. Exists in 375, 625 and 1000mg. However, whatever tablet he takes makes no difference as long as he takes the appropriate dose to enable him reach therapeutic trough for augmentin. You cannot assume all 3 are available in every market. Augmentin will not kill you, not even if you wanted to commit suicide. Aspirin would. So would Alcohol.
Sensitivities are not meant for everything. This is a simple infection that should be treated empirically. We are not dealing with a septic patient here. Free medical advice does not equate to quack advice. Money ain't everything sister

jedisco:
Hmmmm. You really need to stop spewing trash. The way most illiterates who have been to one health school or the other spew trash is appalling. Like it's not the same augmentin I prescribe almost every day.

Stick your head up your rectum

jedisco:
These your doses of augmentin.... where are you picking them from?

Evidence based medicine freely available. The internet is not only for Nairaland and Facebook

nelszx:
That's how Antimicrobial Resistance starts has he shown you his result to show if augmentin is susceptible to both organisms?

What other information do you need besides the name Staph Aureus and E.Coli? Those are bread and butter bugs. There is no wheel to reinvent here unless we are talking MRSA, in which case the guy would be logging into nairaland from the ICU

sonofLuci:
More like Lil bumps on genital, they don't itch but they weren't there before I didn't get them from shaving either cause I shave properly.

Will get the drugs, how many packs I need?

Depends on the dose they have for sale and how many tabs in a pack. Read my post well.
Augmentin comes in 375, 500 or 875mg.

The man don jam another skinny ochanja wey don dey suck am dry anyhow anywhere. E go abroad go dey take selfie, leave madam for house make she dey raise pikin for am. Oyell boys. Na so dem like fine gals reash. The wife for house don resemble keke napep to him eye. Na so e dey take start. One day, the wife go vexy go sharpen cutlass and do the needful

sonofLuci:
No I'm not taking any medication and i didn't fall at all.
Fever? Hmm had sore throat before lasted for 3 days along side catarrh and headache plus body pain not intense but they all gone.

3 days cold and catarrh that resolves is a virus. No cure for that. Body fights it off.
If you went to a lab and they tested your urine and said you have staph (I assume staph aureus) and Ecoli, take the Augmentin. You should be ok after that. You have not said anything about the genital rash, but I assume it does not bother you as much as the itching.

sonofLuci:
Im itching all over no ratches but my skin is red dunno if it's because I'm light-skinned, pains in my lower back tail bone region and then lower abdomen, slight bumps on private region too

Sounds like a number of things going on.
Staph infection on skin will show a boil or boils with pus in it. Redness all over skin could be due to excessive scratching
Small bumps in private region could be scabies (if itchy especially at night) or HPV (if not itchy). Scabies needs Benzyl Benzoate cream head to toe. HPV can be frozen out (cold freeze)
Pain in tail bone sounds like muscular/bony issue. Did you fall on your butt recently? Any fever?
If the lab said you have Staph and E.Coli, then Augmentin should do. Otherwise, you will have to be very specific with your symptoms, so I can figure out what may be going on and how to help. Are you taking any medications currently?

The Atlanta airport is the busiest airport (by human traffic) in the world. It is currently undergoing a $6bn expansion. The airport remains 100% functional and available. The FG wants to close the airport and divert traffic to Kaduna airport so that there can be 2 contracts running concurrently (Abuja airport renovation and Kaduna airport expansion). That is more bride to chop for the senators and house of representathieves.

Kondomatic:
Let's see who will get it first.

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PrettyCrystal:
A family was shocked to meet an "unwanted guest" at their residence in Abuja after coming home from the mosque. According to Mall. Mansur Ringim who shared this, the robber was busy raiding their home while the family members were away praying (as it appears the prayer took effect immediately).

Fortunately for the home owners, the thief was apprehended while "on duty" before he was taken away by policemen who were called to the area. .

Source; http://www.nationalhelm.net/2017/01/family-comes-home-from-mosque-in-abuja.html

Where the blood for the head? where tire for neck? Una dey call police? Una suppose cut him blokos give am make e take stuff mouth

sonofLuci:
Okay, I can get that, will it be enough? Without injection?

What symptoms do you have?
How long have you had the symptoms?

sonofLuci:
Please what's the best way to treat staphylococcus infection? Herbal product or English?

I hate injections, guys have any of you tried herbal? Is it safe to use?

For Staph & E coli: Augmentin 375mg 1 tablet every 8hrs for 10 days. Make sure you complete the dose. or 500mg every 12hrs for 10 days.

Nigeria is the land of never ending contracts. They should send in cattle to graze inside the house

Yes, I know but...

The same white man who was apprehended and sent to Abuja for questioning? Una suppose get department and personnel in the likes of Lai Linus Mohammed to help una coordinate your lies in a convincing manner. Una jus think say all naija people na mugu

Why not connect a wire between the spark plug and his youknowhat just to make sure the generator is still working

At least they have been warned. They should ask all the cultists and armed robbers in their community to bring out their weapons and defend their homes. Also there should be soldiers and policemen from these communities as well. You should be home defending your turf, and not some corrupt obese rotund politician somewhere

Looks like an advert to armed robbers that somebori is going home tonight with 500K cash

Depends on which hand or leg you are using. If you use your left hand and hop on your right leg and self-service away, you should be fine. Otherwise, you are on a one way trip to hell fire aka Buhari's Nigeria which you already live in anyway

The guy is studying Buhari's government and the theory of recession and plastic rice

Realhommie:
As it is he has been convicted hence can't run for any political office..

Assuming his fellow criminal colleagues in the legislature do not change that law overnight. Obasanjo would have succeeded with 3rd term if he had bribed everybody involved well well. Ibori is destined for political office again in a country that celebrates criminals

Culture: where people dress up well to watch other people dance naked

Dj Cup of Ogogoro is busy flaunting her father's wealth instead of hosting xmas party for hungry nigerians

[size=18pt]This is the same Rochas Otuocha Aruemendiimo Okorocha who cannot pay Imo pensioners. Ihe chukwu ga-ekpe n'ikpe erika. These vagabonds in power. [/size]