Earwax

I clean my ears daily. Sometimes I clean my ears twice daily. I vowed long ago never to become like my disgusting biology teacher who informed his eleventh grade science class that to avoid damaging his ears with a Q-tip, he simply didn't use one. When he went to the doctor, the physcian scraped out the packed wax with a small shovel. Earwax disgusts me. Ear wax itches. I'll take my chances with a Q tip. The other alternative, setting a cone of paper on fire and holding it in your ear to draw out the wax, which certain people I know claim is the only safe way to clean your ears, does not appeal to me either. In fact, it seems far more dangerous than a simple little Q tip. Earwax in my children's ears also drives me crazy, but I have refrained from doing anything about it so far on the advice of several pediatricians that I personally know.