Ear Wax - Natural Solutions Revealed

Ear wax (also known as Cerumen), is the natural yellowish wax secreted by special glands in our ear canal, the ear wax can be found in the human ears, some other mammals also have the ear wax secretions found.

The ear wax importance in your ear can be listed in brief:

1 – Ear wax helps the lubrication in the ear canal.

2 – Ear wax provides a trusted protection from bacterial and fungal infections in the ear.

3 – Ear wax protects our ears from the small insects, dust, sand, and from water. The insertion of cold water or any aqueous solution in the ear canal can be harmful (due to infection), and painful.

The ear wax has two types, the wet ear wax, and the dry ear wax. The both types of ear wax have the same functions.

Most of peoples have the wet ear wax type, but the Asians and Native Americans mostly have the dry ear wax type, this difference may be related to a genetic variation.

Production of ear wax:

Human ear wax is not secreted from a single type of glands in the ear; actually it is a mixture.

The sebaceous glands secrete viscous secretions in the outer part of the ear, and the modified apocrine sweat glands secrete a less-viscous secretions, the natural ear wax is the resulted mixture from these two secretions.

Composition of ear wax:

60 % Keratin, 18 % Fatty acids and alcohols, 7-8 % Cholesterol

How to remove excessive ear wax safely?

The best way to get rid of ear wax is to visit the ENT (Ear Nose Throat) specialist. A doctor has safe and extremely effective methods to remove the built up ear wax from your ears, we will mention these methods in details later.

There are many other ways to remove ear wax by yourself at home, you have to apply these procedures just as they are prescribed here, to avoid a lot of problems such as infection, pushing the wax further inside the ear canal, or even perforating of the ear drum.

First you shouldn't get mad of removing the ear wax from your ears daily. If you successfully cleaned the excess ear wax, you can repeat this operation after a week; don’t try to do it before, as the ear wax will not secreted and built up to cause a problem within a few days.