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If your ear is clogged is it safe to use hydrogen peroxide to soften the wax enough for it to run out of your ear?
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Not pure H2O2: debrox is a commercially produced and FDA approved LOW CONCENTRATION of hydrogen peroxide with oil to specifically do that.
Answered 11/27/2017
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