Ear Health

Should earwax excavated or removed on a weekly basis?

Maybe some of you will dig ear children almost every week just to remove ear wax and make sure your child is always clean.

However, you realize that the act of the ear that can affect the health of the species can be harmful to your ears and hearing?

It does not matter whether you use cotton buds, ear diggers made of iron, pin, car keys or any material for excavating or removing earwax, in fact, doing the ear did not have to do. This is because, earwax can act either as a protector against insects or dirt.

The Ear, Nose and Throat in a private medical center in the capital, Dr Aminuddin Saim, said in normal circumstances, earwax will come out little by little as ear skin layers have a mechanism that would remove an ongoing basis. Thus, he said, you do not have the ear or remove earwax with a substance often used for this purpose.



"When the wax had fallen out and see, you can clean it but do not be digging deep ear as this can affect the health of your child's ear," he said, in the capital, recently.

Dr Aminuddin said, digging ear not only not to do in childhood, but every individual should not have the ear. He said, often, parents use a cotton bud to the ear of their children but the material can cause ear wax are sinking, abrasions or lesions on the skin left ear and a cotton bud in the ear.

He said there is also the ear with ear diggers are made of steel and is more dangerous because it can cause wounds and feared may tertembus in turn harm the eardrum and hearing.

"Dredging ear, causing a person to be unreal because the ear has a lot of nerve, and it is so sensitive. Thus, the ear is sometimes the practice or habit of a person.

"Ideally stop the practice because it is feared may affect or harm the ear, especially the eardrum," he said.

Dr Aminuddin said ear wax is a substance in the ear that consists of serumen (ear wax) which is produced by the glands of the ear. He said the mixture keretin, dust, dirt, fats and wool wax ears will form.

Dr Aminuddin said, earwax can be divided into two types, namely hard and soft
most of the Asian community have hard earwax type. "Hard or soft wax depends on genetic factors and fats contained in the ear wax," he said.

He said, acting as a protective wax to your ear as mucus or
liquid contained in it may cause dust stuck, difficulty entry of insects and prevent infection of insects.

As such, he advises parents not the ear of their child with any material for fear that it may cause cuts and less resistance to act as a protector.

"Ears would hurt and infected susceptible to fungus and bacteria. In addition, the practice also feared that the ear can cause damage to the eardrum, "he said.

However, Dr Aminuddin said, a few individuals who suffer from ear wax does not come off on its own and this condition is called keratosis obsturans. He said that those who have this problem must visit the hospital to allow a ear, nose and throat, removing fecal telinga.Lazimnya, patients will be included ear medicine point or olive oil to allow doctors to use a device to suck their earwax.

Children who suffer from the problem will often feel uncomfortable and less heard because their ear wax does not come off as harsh and in normal circumstances. "However, such a condition is extremely rare because in general, wax will come off on its own,"
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