ear wax removal side effects – Online Prescribing https://onlineprescribing.com Online Prescribing Best Practice Wed, 04 Jan 2023 02:00:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://i0.wp.com/onlineprescribing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-android-chrome-512x512-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 ear wax removal side effects – Online Prescribing https://onlineprescribing.com 32 32 209681591 Ear Wax Removal in Pharmacy is Risky Business https://onlineprescribing.com/ear-wax-removal-in-pharmacy-is-risky-business/ https://onlineprescribing.com/ear-wax-removal-in-pharmacy-is-risky-business/#respond Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:38:27 +0000 https://voyagermedical.com/?p=390 We had a few enquiries recently about whether pharmacists should start up an ear irrigation service. We did a little research and came across this BMJ article.

Essentially Doctors do not like to do the service as the procedure is risky and leads to patient complaints. Key learnings from a postal survey of 312 general practitioners who served 650 000 people in Edinburgh found that problems associated with ear syringing were

  • Failure of wax removal (29%)
  • Otitis media (17%)
  • Perforation of the ear drum (15%)
  • Trauma to the external auditory meatus (11%)

Although 85% of general practitioners organised ear syringing, only 19% did it themselves—they usually delegated this procedure to practice nurses Severe injuries can result from syringing using an oral jet irrigator with a dental tip (whose original purpose was to remove dental debris). Trauma should rarely occur with the electrical oral jet irrigator with a special tip specially designed for ear wax removal, as this does not develop pressures above a safe level

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