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Ear wax is secreted by the glands associated with the hair follicles of the ear canal. The function of earwax is protective against bacterial infections. So earwax is protective. But sometimes due to over-secretion of the ear wax due to environmental factors or failure of drainage of the wax out of the ear by ciliary movement result in ear wax impaction. Ear wax impaction causes pain, discomfort, feeling of heaviness and blockage in the affected ear. If it is confirmed that you have ear wax impaction that causes you auditory problems then the simple and first-line treatment is the use of soda glycerin. Soda glycerin which is easily available in the market liquefies the impacted wax and the wax comes out of the ear after liquefaction. Put 3-4 drops of soda glycerin into the affected ear and keep your ear up for 5-7 minutes to keep the medicine inside the ear for sometime so that it can react with the impacted wax. Do this two times a day for 4-5 days. If problem doesn’t solve within...

Pain in the ears (Otalgia) may occur either due to causes in the ear or causes somewhere else having same sensory nerve supply as the ear (referred otalgia). The causes in the ear may be either in external ear or middle ear. The inner ear has no pain fibres, so diseases of the inner ear are mostly painless. The common causes in the external ear are: 1- Acute diffuse otitis externa 2- Boil 3- Otomycosis 4- Bullous myringitis 5- Herpes zoster oticus 6- Perichondritis 7- Trauma or foreign body 8- Impacted wax 9- Malignant otitis externa 10- Neoplasia The common causes in the middle ear are: 1- Acute suppurative otitis media 2- Acute on chronic otitis media 3- CSOM with complications 4- Mastoid abscess 5- Trauma 6- Otitic barotrauma 7- Neoplasms REFERRED OTALGIA: A good number of patients complaining of earache have disease somewhere else. This is due to the common sensory nerve supply with the ear. The ear is supplied by the branches of trigeminal, facial, glosso...