Hello! I’m Dr. Mike. This is Mandy and this is cookie. And today, we want to teach you how to clean your pet’s ears properly. And to do this, we need to get in the habit of looking into our pet’s ears. We need to determine what is normal so that if we see changes such as wax, or debris, or inflammation, or even an abnormal smell, this maybe signs of an infection.
If your pet does have an infection, your veterinarian will actually prescribe a very specific treatment plan and maybe even a specific cleaner for you to go home and use as maintenance.
If there is no infection and we wanted to go ahead and work the routine cleaning, this is rally simple.
So to get started, we’re going to need an ear cleaner. There are many types of ear cleaners both over the counter and there’s also prescription ones. So, once we have our cleaner, we can go ahead and pick something like a cotton ball, you can use a soft tissue. Whatever it is that’s easy and gentle on the ears.
Sos we want to apply our cleaner. And we’ll go ahead and lift the ear flap also known as the ear pin and we want to clean just in the top areas, the areas that we can see. And so just wipe it in here and clean it.
We don’t want to do routine cleaning down in the canal, you don’t ever want to stick an instrument, don’t use cue tips.
Sometimes your pets may actually have an infection and may require a deeper cleaning. Now we need to be careful when we’re pouring the solution down into the canal as this could be damaging if there’s a problem with the eardrum like of the eardrum is ruptured and that can happen. So, you’re only going to a deeper cleaning at the advice and direction of your veterinarian.
So to get started, again we want to lift the ear flap and we’re going to go ahead and just flush a little solution down there and then we can go ahead and massage the canal gently and then I’ll let them go ahead and shake their head so it’s a good idea to maybe do this outside. After, again I would grab a cotton ball and at this time, I don’t need to saturate it because all the solutions here are just going to clean what’s up here. Once again, don’t use a cue tip. No instruments down in to the canal at anytime.
This is pretty simple, you can do this a home on a routine basis whether weekly or twice a month and again at the advice of your veterinarian.
So, whether you’re doing a routine ear cleaning or deeper ear flush, it’s very simple as long as you follow the necessary precautions.
I hope that this information was helpful to you today and thank you for watching.
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