Is it normal to have a lot of earwax? Why is there so much earwax

Updated on healthy 2024-05-01
18 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    It is not normal to have a lot of earwax in the ear, and the human ear has the ability to clean itself and can automatically discharge the earwax, so the earwax is mostly a problem with the ear.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    Earwax is not dirty, in fact, it is a secretion of the human body, which is composed of dander and oil shed in the ears and dirt hidden in the ears. Earwax needs to be cleaned in time, otherwise it will block the ear canal and even affect hearing. However, it will often be found that earwax cannot be cleaned up, and it will grow back in a few days.

    What's the deal with that earwax?

    1.Causes of a lot of earwax.

    There are two reasons for earwax: one is not paying attention to the ear canal and indoor hygiene; The second is that inflammation of the ear canal increases the discharge. If the living environment is very unclean, there is often dust or all kinds of dirt and dust, if you don't clean it in time, it will be filled in the air, enter the ear canal, and mix with the secretions of the ear canal to form earwax.

    If you don't clean it up, there will always be earwax. Therefore, if you want to have a clean ear canal, you must pay attention to indoor hygiene, and you must also pay attention to your own hygiene.

    There is also a possibility that the ear canal is inflamed for some reason, and if it is not obtained in time, yellow water or pus will flow out, and this purulent discharge is dry in the ear canal and mixed with the dust in the air is earwax. If the inflammation is not obtained, the earwax will never be cleaned up. Check your ear canal in time to move, and go to the hospital in time if you have uncomfortable symptoms.

    2.Cleaning of earwax.

    If there is a lot of earwax, it should be cleaned regularly, but do not clean it blindly, which will not only not clean it but also hurt the ear canal. If it is soft, you can soak the cotton swab and turn it back and forth in the ear canal a few times, and the ear wax will be brought out by the cotton swab. If it is the kind of earwax that is relatively hard, it is what we often call iron earwax, it is best not to clean it up yourself, and you must go to the hospital to ask a doctor to help clean it up.

    Blindly cleaning up the earwax will not only fail to get the earwax out, but may also make it move more and more inside, and even damage the eardrum and affect hearing. Earwax needs to be cleaned regularly, but it is also necessary to clean it too often, and it is wrong to clean it twice in three days. Earwax also has a certain effect of protecting the ear canal, which can prevent small insects from entering the ear canal.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    If there is a lot of earwax, it needs to be cleaned, because if it is not cleaned in time, it may cause related clinical symptoms, such as ear pain, foreign body sensation in the ear canal, stuffiness, etc., and some patients may also have deafness and tinnitus, so they need to go to the otolaryngology department for cleaning in time. In general, we can use a suction device to suck them out, or we can clean them directly with a cerumen hook. However, some patients have hard earwax and are painful to clean.

    In this case, we need to soften the earwax with medication for about three days before going to the hospital for cleaning.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    Normally, there is a thin layer of pale yellow cerumen attached to the external auditory canal. Under normal circumstances, as long as the child's ear does not hurt or itch, pay attention to keeping the external auditory canal dry to avoid cerumen embolism and local infection.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    And it is very normal, and in the case of a lot of inflammation, you should go to the hospital for a good examination of the ear.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    And is it normal to have a lot of fans? It's not normal to have a lot of them.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    This proves that you are still young, and the reason why your metabolism is better is that there are quite a lot of mine.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    The earwax in the eyes of the human ear is commonly known as "earwax", which is called cerumen in medicine, and the cerumen is generally light yellow, wax-like crumbs, and there are also oily or relatively hard and large pieces. So, how did Javenid come about? It turns out that there is a section of the ear and eye (L 3 cartilage segment outside the external auditory canal) that is different from the ** elsewhere in the body, that is, there is a variant of the sweat gland called the cerumen gland, and its structure is somewhat similar to the sweat gland.

    The external auditory canal**, like the rest of the body**, has a sebaceous gland that secretes a type of oil. From a physiological point of view, these secretions in the cerumen gland are expelled from time to time through the opening. At first, the secretions that have just been spit out from the cerumen glands look a bit like melted wax, and they mix with the oil excreted by the sebaceous glands to form a thin layer attached to the surface of the **.

    These primitive earwax are mixed with the dust in the ear canal and the debris that fall off, and after drying, they become a small piece of pale yellow loose flake cerumen and accumulate in the ear canal. Some people secrete a lot of cerumen glands and sebaceous glands, and the discharge is brownish-yellow, oily viscous substance, which has accumulated in the eyes of the outer tract before drying, and some even flow out of the ear, and some condense into a clump, which is collectively called soft earwax, commonly known as "oily ear", and is called oily cerumen in medicine. There are also some people who have particularly strong cerumen gland secretion; The earwax cannot be discharged again, and gradually dries and gathers into dark brown hard lumps, sometimes hard like stones, tightly blocked in the external ear canal, commonly known as hard earwax, medically called cerumen embolism.

    If you find that there is cerumen embolism, especially after the ear canal is flooded, the cerumen swelling causes ear stuffiness, hearing loss or even ear pain, you should consult a specialist for treatment, and do not dig indiscriminately, so as not to cause ear canal inflammation.

  9. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    The earwax in the piercing ear is caused by the cerumen in the ear, and it is normal for some people to have a lot of earwax and become hard. Don't dig with things yourself, including your fingers. In this way, it is easy to damage the ear canal**, cause inflammation of the external ear canal, and even break the eardrum, causing otitis media.

    Recommendation: Wipe the ear canal clean with a damp cloth. Insert a dry cotton swab into the ear no more than 1 cm, gently rotate it slightly, you can absorb the water and remove the filth, if necessary, you can go to the hospital otolaryngology department to be taken out by the doctor.

  10. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    Isn't it more popular lately?

  11. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    Earwax, also known as earwax and cerumen in medicine, is the oil secreted by the cerumen gland in the human ear canal, mixed with the human body's own dander, dust, external substances, etc., dried and condensed.

    There are many people who have more cerumen gland secretions than the average person, and this kind of person will have more earwax, and if they don't pick their ears for a few days, they will feel itchy and uncomfortable.

    Therefore, it is normal to have a certain amount of earwax, as long as you remember to clean it regularly in time, which is also a good habit to maintain personal hygiene.

    Some people have very hard earwax, a lot of earwax, and it is easy to block the ear, this situation belongs to cerumen embolism, which belongs to a disease, can not pick the ear casually, it is easy to cause ear canal bleeding, affecting hearing.

  12. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    It is a normal discharge from the ear, as long as it is not pus-like, it is normal.

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    The rapid growth of earwax is mainly related to the physique, that is, the secretion of the human body is relatively vigorous, especially the secretion of the sebaceous glands of **, so the cerumen of earwax will grow repeatedly, and the speed will be relatively fast. In addition, if you don't pay attention to the water in your ears when you take a bath and wash your hair, cerumen will become hard because of repeated soaking in water, and the external ear canal will be blocked, and cerumen plugging will be formed, and there will be hearing loss and ear pain.

    It is recommended that if this is the case, use sodium bicarbonate ear drops to soften the earwax, and then go to the hospital to rinse the external ear canal and rinse it clean. Usually pay attention to keep the external ear canal dry, especially when bathing and washing hair or swimming, you must prevent water ingress, usually when bathing and washing hair, you can put a cotton ball at the ear canal opening, which can prevent water from entering, so that the earwax is not easy to grow so fast, and it is not easy to form cerumen embolism.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    Earwax is mostly the result of the vigorous secretion of cerumen and sebaceous glands in the ear canal, which is generally not harmful to human health, and the earwax is rich in oil and can also moisturize the ear canal**, and the chemical composition of earwax can also inhibit the growth and reproduction of some bacteria.

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-25

    Hello, according to your description, here is a very pertinent advice for you first, don't pick your own ears, this is easy to induce ear infections, and at the same time it is difficult to clean up. You will now need to use sodium bicarbonate ear drops along with levofloxacin ear drops.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-24

    Earwax, medically known as cerumen, is the secretion of cerumen glands on the external auditory canal, which is liquid and very viscous when it begins to secrete, and becomes a small solid after drying. In general, as the mouth continues to open and close, the earwax will move outward and fall off on its own. However, when there is a lot of earwax, it will block the small external ear canal and affect hearing; Occasionally, some children hear the sound of a soo in their ears.

    When washing hair or swimming, water flows into the external ear canal and causes the earwax to swell, which can cause the above phenomenon to occur.

    Some parents see their children with earwax in their ears and use their fingers, hairpins, ear pickers or matchsticks to dig them up. However, because the child is afraid of pain, but is unwilling to cooperate and cry incessantly, it is easy to dig the child's external ear canal**, and the damaged area is prone to bacterial infection, causing otitis externa and ear boils. More seriously, the eardrum is punctured, resulting in otitis media and hearing loss in children.

    So, how do you dig your child's earwax? In fact, for children with little earwax, there is generally no need to deal with it, and a cotton swab can be used to gently clean it at the entrance of the external ear canal. If there is more earwax, you can use 3 sodium bicarbonate, that is, baking soda solution, drop 1 drop into the ear every 2 3 hours, 3 4 times a day, 1 2 days after the earwax becomes soft and then gently take it out with small tweezers, pay attention to this process must fix the child's head, do not make it move.

    Usually, a small cotton swab coated with chlortetracycline eye ointment should be used every week to roll it in the external ear canal, which can help sterilize and moisten the external ear canal, so that the earwax will fall off naturally and will not form large lumps. If the earwax forms a hard lump and causes the external ear canal to be blocked, then you should go to the hospital to ask an ENT doctor for treatment, and do not forcibly dig the earwax at home.

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-23

    Earwax is mostly the result of the vigorous secretion of cerumen glands in the ear, which is generally not harmful to health. Earwax is rich in oil, it can moisturize the fine hairs on the ear canal**, these fine hairs can block dust particles blown in from the outside, earwax and fine hairs can also prevent insects and other microorganisms from invading the ears, the chemical composition of earwax can inhibit the growth and reproduction of some bacteria.

  18. Anonymous users2024-01-22

    Earwax, medically known as earwax. Does it have any features? Should it be dug or not? Let a non-otologist clean up, will there be *** or complications?

    Earwax can adsorb dust or small dirty particles, and contains some fatty acids that dissolve and mix with the sebaceous glands, creating a slightly acidic and antibacterial environment. In addition, the external auditory canal** has a function of automatically moving outward, in other words, it can clean and excrete the earwax outward.

    Therefore, if the earwax directly touches the eardrum, it can almost be considered artificial, such as squeezing the ear with a cotton swab or other tool. In addition, earwax has the function of waterproof and moisturizing the outer ear canal**, if there is no earwax, the external auditory canal** is dry and itchy.

    Of course, there are also some people who have poor earwax discharge function, which is easy to cause earwax embolism, and there will be some symptoms during earwax embolism, such as progressive hearing loss, tinnitus, ear itching, ear fullness, etc., at this time, you need to ask an otolaryngologists to help take it out.

    Patients can take a few drops of mineral oil and glycerin before seeking a doctor to clean it up. If hydrogen peroxide is used to inject hydrogen peroxide into the ear, oxygen bubbles will be generated, and the water will remain in the ear, causing infection.

    In addition, in addition to earwax embolism, there are other diseases such as epithelial emboli, cholesteatoma of the external auditory canal or middle ear, and foreign bodies that need to be differentiated by a doctor.

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