Ear blocked with wax.
What liquid is quickest?
AI search summary appears to lie.
Experimenter concludes:
Sterile water!
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Further to earlier posts here and here, we had an appointment with a high-grade nurse just over an hour ago.
She was absolutely lovely and confirmed that our right ear is inflammed with what looks like an inner and/or middle ear infection (likely otitis externa), but that it doesn't look like mastoiditis fortunately.
Not messing around at all, she prescribed us:
She even made sure that we understood that if the swelling and pain spreads to anywhere near the mastoid bone, we should immediately go to A&E.
Content warning: Physical health (sadly negative; more stuff about ears and earwax)
After having cleared both ears of the mahusive amount of built-up earwax within them and regained hearing, our right ear has decided to be a right git 
It seems to have perceived the earwax being cleared as some kind of attack, so initiated inflammation protocols ๐คฆโโ๏ธ It is currently red, swollen, and sensitive, and producing a liquidy, waxy discharge, as if to try to build the blockage back up ๐
This has irritatingly mostly blocked the ear back up.
More annoyingly, however, the ear and associated area have become painful, so we're having to stay doped up on a strong cocktail of meds (paracetamol, naproxen, and codeine) to dull the pain, in addition to a decongestant (phenylephrine hydrochloride) and diazepam, to try to restore basic ability to function ๐
Plus we're intermittently using a bit of soft tissue to mop up the liquidy discharge.
Really not a fan of our body right now, but very glad that we have strong painkillers and other meds of various classes.
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