###Human: Is it advisable to use mineral oil to treat ringing in ears? ###Assistant: Hello. Whatever mineral oil or any oil you instill, will only act outside the eardrum. The cells that are outside the eardrum form cerumen or wax and these oils will be helpful. I can give you the dose and duration for that. But however, if there was fluid inside the ear, now resolved, the ringing should be due to that. The fluid we are talking about is the one inside the drum. In a scenario where the drum is intact, these oils are of no use to remove the cells which have got clumped inside the drum. Did the ENT do any test to confirm the presence of fluid inside the ear? Did he do an audiogram or a tympanogram? Can you share reports with me?