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Stop Cleaning Inside Your Ears: It’s Bad For You by femi4: 9:14pm On Oct 09, 2013 |
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/
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Re: Stop Cleaning Inside Your Ears: It’s Bad For You by Preceedo(m): 9:47pm On Oct 09, 2013 |
Joke Of the day. Ahahahahaahah |
Re: Stop Cleaning Inside Your Ears: It’s Bad For You by Nobody: 10:18pm On Oct 09, 2013 |
i dey clean my ear as i dey read this topic.. 1 Like |
Re: Stop Cleaning Inside Your Ears: It’s Bad For You by passionate88: 6:26am On Oct 10, 2013 |
Na wetin we no go hear from these people?. Me dey clean my ear wit biro cover sef 1 Like |
Re: Stop Cleaning Inside Your Ears: It’s Bad For You by ryom(m): 10:52pm On Oct 12, 2013 |
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". |
Re: Stop Cleaning Inside Your Ears: It’s Bad For You by dominique(f): 12:42pm On Oct 13, 2013 |
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 |
Re: Stop Cleaning Inside Your Ears: It’s Bad For You by Emmyk(m): 5:43pm On Oct 13, 2013 |
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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