Elephant Ear Washer - Economy- Bottle System by Doctor Easy

In case you don’t want to read my long review, buy it! It works! I’ve had problems with ear wax for years. An ENT doctor told me that ear wax is a good thing because it helps protect your ear canal, ear drum… from dirt and bacteria. Unfortunately, some people produce dry crumbly ear wax which balls up and muffles sound and the use of ear buds to listen to music, ear plugs to block excessive noise including my husband’s snoring, and yes, using cotton swabs trying to dislodge the excessive wax all just pushes it deeper into the ear so I can’t hear it thunder. I’m being dramatic, but I do have a hard time hearing when there’s any additional noise like a fan/AC vent, the dishwasher/washing machine running, water running in the sink/bathtub, loud talkers in a restaurant…so I’m often left saying ‘Pardon? What? Sorry, I didn’t hear you.’ I’ve tried ear candling and ear drops to soften the wax with no luck. I ran across a recommendation for this product and read all the positive Amazon reviews and took a chance. I put Debrox drops in both ears the night before to soften the wax, but I suspect it would still work even without that step. It came in yesterday and I couldn’t wait to try it. I searched ‘how to’ videos on YouTube and found one where a man is flushing out his son’s ears. The instructions are to use warm (not hot) water. In the video he recommends mixing up a solution of 1/3 rubbing alcohol, 1/3 hydrogen peroxide, and a 1/3 warm water so I did that. Aldo in the video he has a plastic ear basin. This is just the bottle, but you can order a kit with both the bottle and ear basin or do what I did and search Amazon for ear basin and order one separately. It was less expensive to purchase them separately. So I was all ready. The problem? I needed a 3rd hand. I couldn’t figure out any way by myself to hold the ear basin under my ear, hold the trigger on the bottle, and direct the plastic tip into my ear. I tried holding the basin up with my shoulder and ended up with water running down my shirt. I ended up putting a towel on my shoulder to catch any water or bits of ear wax and leaning over the sink to flush out my ears. Wow! I didn’t take a picture because it was really nasty looking, but I had visible bits of wax in the right ear and a good size ball of wax partially blocking my left ear. I flushed several times in both ears until wax stopped coming out. No pain or discomfort and best of all I can hear so much better! If you’re by yourself you can probably skip the ear basin, but if you’re buying to help a child or another person, I would get it. I searched online for how often to flush ears out and it suggested once a month, but if you have questions/concerns talk with your doctor. I didn’t receive any compensation for my honest review. I really love this thing. It’s so nice to be able to hear clearly!

Huh? What? Huh? What? Are you tired of hearing that? I sure as heck did as my 11yo child kept asking us to repeat ourselves multiple times a day. We thought he was testing us. Well, last week the 11tr old went in for a regular check up. Lo and bold: the Dr. could not get in there and see anything as my son’s ears were full of wax.We came home and did debrox for 2-3 days in each ear to loosen and soften the wax.And then it was time; time for me to step up and clean out these ears using the elephant ear system.I filled the bottle in thirds: 1/3 lukewarm water, another 1/3 with room temp hydrogen peroxide, and rubbing alcohol for the last 1/3. I did not measure.When you do to start squeezing the sprayer, You do need to prime it a few times. I did this into the basin so that my son would not feel air blown into his ear. Once the solution was spraying, I put the very flexible tube into his ear, nor far at first.Two squeezes and wax was flowing. I did this a few times and then started to place the flexible tip into his ear at different angles to make sure we got most of it. I thought we were finished with my sons ear as he said “I can hear!” I said let’s do one more squeeze to make sure. I’m so glad I did the one more squeeze, as more came out.Since this happened everyone has had their ears cleaned.I think there are some key factors as to why it worked for us:1. We used slightly warm water and hydrogen peroxide to soften the wax and I believe the alcohol helps prevent swimmers ear.2 we prepped each ear for 2-3 days by using debrox.3. I changed the angle of the plastic tubing in the ear while squirting, so that the different angles would dislodge more gunkThis has saved me money by not having to see the dr. It’s also one last place we moms have to taxi to for the week.Buy it, don’t give up too soon; IT WORKS!

This worked great, but somehow got lost in my move. Thought I’d get another until I saw how much it costs now. Now I just go to my doctor since they use pretty much the same thing, and it’s free.