What we commonly call earwax is also known as external ear canal cerumen. Should you dig or not? Do you need to clean it often? 1, earwax should not dig In general, it is not recommended to dig the ears, earwax is not a white growth, it has a protective effect on the external ear canal. Dust in the air, once into the ear canal, earwax will be able to stick to it, but also block some bugs outside the ear canal. Ear wax in the external ear canal in front of the eardrum, can let the sound slowly conduct into, so that the eardrum from the damage of violent vibration. 2, often digging the ear what are the disadvantages a, often digging the ear the biggest risk is that it will accidentally touch the eardrum, causing otitis media or even deafness. b, many people digging ears are using cotton swabs, cotton swabs are only suitable for wiping the position of the auricle, with its digging ears will only poke earwax into the ear canal, so that it can not be discharged on its own, long term, it will let the earwax in the ear canal excessive accumulation, if the ear into the water, it is very easy to make the cerumen absorb the water and expand, corrosion of the ear’s fragile skin, caused by inflammation. c. Frequent digging of the ears will also cause abnormal secretion of earwax, earwax may become more and more, the new secretion of cerumen will be changed from the original flaky to crumbly, thus reducing the ability to protect the ears. 3, earwax will be how to discharge earwax will be discharged out of the body, so do not often pull out the ears. Left pull out, right pull out, and can not pull out the baby. In daily life, earwax will slowly move from the ear canal to the mouth of the ear canal, accumulated to a certain extent, through the movement of the jaw joints when chewing, it will continue to fall out of the body, so don’t worry about blocking the ear canal. 4, in the end how to deal with it can be cleaned once a week around the auricle, but should not be cleaned every day, the ear skin is fragile, prone to inflammation and infection. When there is too much ear wax in the ear or when the ear wax accumulates into hard lumps over a long period of time, it will affect the hearing, then the ear wax may not come off by itself, and it is difficult to take out, then you can use the appropriate ear oil drops, to be taken out after the ear wax is softened.