Earwax (patient fact sheet)

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When a patient presents to an emergency department or urgent care centre, they should be given the best available information.

This updated fact sheet helps ensure clinicians and patients have access to easy-to-read information about different emergency conditions.

Give this fact sheet to your patients when discharging them from an emergency department or urgent care centre.

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Download our fact sheet to provide your patients with easy to follow guidance on earwax.

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Earwax is normal. It protects the inner ear from water and infection. Sometimes, however, the wax builds up and leads to a blockage (impaction).

In some cases, the wax build-up falls out by itself without any treatment. At other times, the build-up needs treatment.

Centre of Clinical Excellence - Acute

Safer Care Victoria