Put down the cotton buds – a quick guide to cleaning earwax

It’s official: syringing water to clean your ears is not recommended by health professionals. So, what should you do to keep your ears wax-free?Ears that are blocked with wax should not be syringed. For thousands of years, the syringe has been the ear doctor’s tool of choice (Roman author Celsus wrote about it in De Medicina), but now the health watchdog Nice says a syringe pumping water into the ear is “potentially harmful”. Why?“You can’t control the pressur