Everyone always says you should wash
behind your ears. But what about inside
your ears? You should pretty much never clean those, and trying sends more people to the hospital every year with cotton swab–induced injuries than show up with wounds from razor blades,
according to Real Clear Science. Here’s
the basic problem:

For the most part, swabs merely condense and impact the earwax further into the ear canal, where it can cause pain, pressure, and temporarily poor hearing.

“There’s no need to clean your ears with a cotton bud,” writes Dr. Rob Hicks. “The ear has its own internal cleaning mechanism. Fats and oils in the ear canal trap any particles and transport them out of the ear as wax. This falls out of the ear without us
noticing.” Besides, ear wax isn’t dirt. It’s supposed to be there, says the American Hearing Research Association:

First, one should realize that wax isn’t
all that bad. It keeps your ear dry and
helps prevent infection. Thus, you don’t
want to eliminate wax; you want to
keep it from blocking your ears.

The Telegraph says:
“In most circumstances, wax is actually
beneficial to the ear,” says Simon Baer,
a consultant ear, nose and throat
surgeon at the Conquest Hospital in
Hastings. “It causes foreign bodies to
adhere to it, preventing them from
going further into the ear, and it has
anti-bacterial properties. Removing it is
like taking the wax off the surface of
polished wooden furniture. It makes the
delicate underlying skin of the ear more
susceptible to infection.”

Of course, some people have way too
much earwax, but that’s rare. Certainly
not common enough to support the huge
earwax removal industry. The Wall Street
Journal writes:

Some 12 million Americans visit medical
professionals annually for earwax
removal. Millions more have it done at
spas and ear-candling parlors, which
theoretically suck out earwax with a
lighted candle. North Americans also
spent $63 million last year on home ear-
cleaning products, from drops to
irrigation kits, according to market
research firm Euromonitor International.

Removing wax yourself can be
dangerous, though. Thousands of people
go to the hospital every year because of
those pesky cotton swabs. So not only is
it doing nothing for you, it’s actually
perhaps hurting.

blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/01/stop-cleaning-inside-your-ears-its-bad-for-you/

Joke Of the day. Ahahahahaahah

i dey clean my ear as i dey read this topic..

Na wetin we no go hear from these people?. Me dey clean my ear wit biro cover sef

The ears are self cleansing. You don't need to clean them. The old saying is "nothing smaller than your elbow should go in your ears".

I agree with op. The wax traps dirts and prevents injury and infection to the inner ear but I'm so darn addicted to cleaning the ears

Yeah. The Wax is actually good. But too much cleaning of the ear is bad. Atleast once or twice a week.


How would you feel, seeing the oily thingy flowing down someone's ear near you?

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