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Hearing and ear specialists believe that itching, troubled ears are caused by over cleaning!
By over using cotton swabs as well as over-the-counter ear solutions that contain harsh drying ingredients like alcohol, hydrogen peroxide and mineral oil, people both disturb the ear canal wall and dry out its delicate tissues. Your ear canal tissue is more sensitive than regular skin because it has only three layers. Regular skin contains seven layers. This is why the ear canal is more easily disturbed and damaged.
Healthy ears are self-cleaning. How this self-cleaning process works is tied to a little known substance in ear canal tissue called keratin. An important protein, keratin shields your ear canal from the growth of bacteria, fungus, yeast and other parasites. Keratin helps maintain your ear’s pH environment and mixes both ceruminous and sebaceous secretions into what we call “earwax.” It allows living cells to grow beneath it. These cells grow outward from the top of the eardrum (or tympanic membrane) to the opening of the ear canal.
This gentle growth pattern moves debris out of the ear canal, thus “self cleaning” the ear. Healthy ears, therefore, are not in need of mechanical “cleaning” per se, unless of course, one gets impacted wax. Actually, over cleaning can start an “unhealthy” cycle for ears.
Recently a new product called MiraCell has been introduced for ear health. MiraCell is an all-natural, safe, mildly antibacterial, antifungal and anti-yeast solution, which comforts itching ears immediately, when dropped into the ear canal.
People plagued by itching ears are choosing MiraCell over other formulas because it immediately relieves the itch. Continued use of MiraCell promotes healthy, trouble free ears gently and safely. Patients and hearing professionals alike say MiraCell is their most useful ear product. Soothing, it lubricates their ears without harsh drying effects.
