From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Subject: Re: Earwax
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bobm@Ingres.COM (Bob McQueer) writes:
|One question I do have - a doctor who flushed out my ears once also advocated
|a drop of rubbing alcohol in them afterwards to flush out any remaining
|trapped water - said he told swimmers to do this after swimming, too.  It
|works, but it stings like the devil, so I've always been content to let any
|water in my ears from swimming or flushing them out figure out how to get
|out by itself if shaking my head a few times won't do the trick.  Any
|comments?

When I have trouble it's usually because of water trapped by some
remaining wax.  I don't see why you can't just let it evaporate; it
should do this eventually.

	/J
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