Re: Cleaning question....

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> I am just looking for suggestions on what to use to do a quick wipe on the

nights we are not doing a full cleaning.

Hi Ann Marie,

We went all through this a few years ago. The alcohol will work but our Audie

said after a while it could make the soft ear molds hard. She recommened

pulling the ear molds off a couple of times a week and letting them sit

overnight in hydrogen peroxide. It really bubbles and boils away the ear wax!

Then you just use the blower bulb to blow out the stuff in the tubing. It

worked for us. (my daughter has a CI now).

Terri

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In a message dated 11/20/2004 7:54:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

mutzannmarie@... writes:

I am just looking for suggestions on what to use to do a quick wipe on the

nights we are not doing a full cleaning.

Ann Marie,

I'm not sure if this is an approved thing or not, just what we've done with

no ill-effects. My daughter has always liked using flushable wipes. So, I buy

them and always have a little box of them on the back of the toilet.

We now use them to do quick cleanings of the molds. Wipe with the

flushables, then dry quickly with the regular tissues. There's nothing in the

flushables that bothers our son's ears, so that's our quick fix. Dry tissues

stick to

the wax, wet tissues just fall apart. I use to get baby wipes -- long after

my kids were babies, and we still use them in the car, but they seem to have a

stronger cleaner and stronger perfumes.

I can still clean them really quickly with a toothbrush, but now that Ian is

older, he prefers to do those things himself.

Best -- Jill

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Ann Marie-

We used to use a cloth diaper (the thin kind worked better). They are

lint free and worked perfectly. You could just cut one down into

smaller squares, but since we used them as burp cloths too, we just

always had them around. I will admit that I now just use my shirt; my

standards have slipped a bit!

They do have ear mold sanitizing spray. I got a bottle for free last

year and still have plenty left. I think they retail for about $5

(Hal-Hen sells one kind). They are mainly alcohol, but it is supposed

to be a lower concentration that what you'd find in alcohol wipes and

therefore ok to use regularly on earmolds.

I use a wooden toothpick on Hadley molds to clean out the opening where

wax and other gunk congregates. I've found that I can use the side of

the toothpick to scrape off any excess OtoFerm, etc from the mold

itself, which gets the job done.

Also, putting the molds in the Dry & Store and then cleaning them in the

morning might be easier if your main culprit is wax. The Dry & Store

will harden the wax and it will just pop out with little work on your

end.

Find out from your audi how frequently your son should get his ears

cleaned by an ENT. We go every 3-4 months now to a local ENT who works

with children, which keeps Hadley's ears clean with just a healthy

amount of wax in them. I know some families have been given permission

by their audis and ENTs to use the at-home wax removal kits, but only do

so yourself after getting that cleared by your team. The one thing I

like about using a local ENT for the ear cleanings is that it's easy for

me to get an appt there if I question whether Hadley has an ear

infection-- I don't have to haul ourselves into town to go to the

Children's Hospital and see her ENT there.

Kerry

Re: Cleaning question....

In a message dated 11/20/2004 7:54:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

mutzannmarie@... writes:

I am just looking for suggestions on what to use to do a quick wipe on

the

nights we are not doing a full cleaning.