When Dirt Ears Need Cleaned?

Have earwax protects the ear from damage and infection and should be less frequent cleaning. But ear wax is also sometimes interfere with hearing. When should earwax cleaned?

The skin on the outer ear canal has special glands that produce earwax, known as cerumen. Usually, a small amount of ear wax accumulates and then dries up and out of the ear canal, bringing the unwanted particles of dust or sand.

Cerumen or earwax forms differ between people with one another. Maybe almost a liquid, solid and firm or in the form of dry skin. The color also varies depending on the composition. Most of the ear canal can clean itself, by way of ear canal skin lining the ear drum to migrate from the outer ear opening. Old earwax will continue to be transported from the deeper regions of the ear canal toward the exit, usually dry, flakes and falls.

When should be cleaned?

In ideal circumstances, a person should not need to clean his ears. But sometimes people are too often even cleaning ears ears up any liquid dry lubricant.

As quoted from MedicineNet, Tuesday (05/18/2010), excessive ear wax can form inside the ear canal for various reasons, among others:

1. Narrowing of the ear canal caused by infection or skin disease, bone, or connective tissue
2. Production of liquid cerumen less (more common in older people because aging of the glands that produce earwax)
3. Excessive Cerumen in response to trauma or blockage in the ear canal

When ear wax accumulates so much so as to form a block and disrupt the auditory ear canal, ear wax is then that needs to be cleaned. People might try to use a cotton bud (ear cleaning with cotton) or ear drops if the dirt telingan too hard.

Use a cotton bud best done when the state of liquid and a little ear wax is not hard. Because if the hard ear wax, then use a cotton bud can make even the dirt is getting into the ear. And to use ear drops, it is very important to know that your ears are not perforated (leaking) the ear drum before using the product.

Using ear drops with the state of perforated eardrum can cause infections of the middle ear. And also if accompanied by pain, local pain or skin rash drug use drops should be stopped. At a time like this, the doctor may need to clean out earwax (also known as lavage), with a vacuum, or even to clean with special instruments.