Earwax will affect the hearing, but it cannot be generalized, the specific situation needs to be decided according to the patient’s own physical condition.
Earwax is clinically known as cerumen. If the patient has more cerumen for a long period of time, the patient’s outer ear canal is blocked by too much cerumen or water enters into the outer ear canal area, which leads to the cerumen in the ear swelling and blocking the ear canal, the phenomenon of affecting hearing may occur. However, if the cerumen in the patient’s ear canal is small and does not block the external ear canal, hearing is usually not affected.
When there are uncomfortable symptoms such as stuffy ears and hearing loss, and after examination, if it is caused by cerumen embolism, it is recommended that the patient choose 5% sodium bicarbonate and other medications to spot the ear under the guidance of a professional doctor, which can soften the cerumen, and use physiological saline for rinsing, so as to make the cerumen discharged.
In daily life, patients should avoid picking the ears with their hands to avoid water ingress into the ears, which can effectively control the emergence of the disease.