It turns out, you shouldn’t use a cotton swab to clean out your ears. Your ears are self-cleaning machines, with very little maintenance required. One of its best defenses? Earwax. Earwax is a ...

An ear infection can present as a dull, persistent ache, and is sometimes accompanied by pressure, discharge, itching, fever or muffled hearing. In more severe cases, the pain can be sudden, sharp and ...

I’ve got a terrible build-up of earwax in both ears and it’s affecting my hearing. I’m told that cotton buds are dangerous and my GP says there’s nothing she can do to help. So what can I do about it?