People tend to clean their ears by themselves with items they can find at home. This may include little picks, it could include cotton swabs or it might even just be their finger.

The correct way to self-clean your ears is to actually use a bit of warm water and a cloth. It’s something you can do in the shower or in the mornings when you wash your ears and it’s not very complicated. However, it does lead people to think that perhaps they’re not cleaning their ears very effectively, especially since they’re not cleaning the inside of their ear.

Unfortunately, using anything but a professional ear cleaning service from an audiologist could cause damage to your ear. Whether it’s damaging the sensitive cells inside your ear or harming your eardrum, a lot can go wrong and it’s best to seek a professional.

In this article, we’re going to explain a couple of situations where it makes perfect sense to see an audiologist about ear cleaning instead of trying to do it on your own.