While it might be tempting, avoid hitting or "violently shaking" your head when you have water stuck in your ear. "This will not effectively get the water out and may cause dizziness or inner ear ...

“Many avid swimmers will experience an outer ear infection at some point,” he says. The infection, which is usually bacterial or caused by fungus, is distinct from the water that can get stuck ...

When we use cotton buds, what we actually end up doing is pushing earwax deeper into the ear where it gets stuck in the parts ... to push a pressurised flow of water into the ear canal to dislodge ...