Contents:
- Medical Video: Ear & Sinus Problems : How to Remove Ear Wax at Home
- Earwax keeps your ears healthy
- Understand the various textures and colors of earwax
- 1. Yellow and soft
- 2. Blackish and dry brown
- 3. Pale yellow and dry
- 4. Yellow or brown color accompanied by redness
- 5. Black
Medical Video: Ear & Sinus Problems : How to Remove Ear Wax at Home
Earwax, also known as medical cerumen, is a collection of dead skin cells, hair, or dirt located on the outside of the ear canal. Even though it looks disgusting, the dirt works to lubricate and protect the ears from bacteria or small insects that enter the ear.
When the ears are cleaned, the color of earwax often changes. Sometimes yellow, gray, or black. Actually, what does the color of dirt on your ears mean? Come on, find out the answer in the following review.
Earwax keeps your ears healthy
Your ears naturally produce wax to prevent foreign substances that cause infection into the ear canal. For days, the wax will accumulate together with dead skin cells to form earwax.
When earwax builds up, the impurities will be pushed by themselves towards the outer ear to be removed. So, don't be weird if you find earwax coming out of your ear one day.
However, earwax that accumulates often makes your ears itchy. You must be anxious to remove the dirt with various tools, starting from cotton buds, plastic earplugs or iron and earwax suction.
Understand the various textures and colors of earwax
The color of earwax varies greatly depending on the health and ethnicity of a person. But generally, earwax will be brownish yellow and sticky or grayish yellow and dry.
One time earwax can change color from usual, which is red or black. The following is an explanation of the texture and color of earwax you need to know, such as:
1. Yellow and soft
Dirt that looks yellow and feels soft is new earwax. This is not a problem, as long as the dirt is not too runny and comes out of your ear canal.
If this earwax is produced more even almost dripping from the ear, followed by other symptoms that make the ear uncomfortable, immediately check with the doctor. The possibility of this condition is caused by middle ear infections (otitis media).
2. Blackish and dry brown
Earwax is not directly removed from the body. The dirt will settle and continue to accumulate with dead cells. These old feces are usually blackish brown and tend to dry out.
3. Pale yellow and dry
When the brown stool starts to push out, the color can turn pale yellow and very dry, like flaking skin flakes. However, it can also remain dark brown. This color difference from earwax is influenced by ethnicity.
Reported from the Health Line page, people of Caucasian and African-American descent, tend to have earwax that is darker in color and sticky. While Native Americans and Asian Imur descendants, tend to have dry and thin earwax.
However, you need to pay attention if the pale earwax is followed by other symptoms, such as skin quickly peeling or a reddish rash appears. It could be that the condition indicates you have eczema or psoriasis.
4. Yellow or brown color accompanied by redness
There is a reddish color in your earwax, indicating a wound. This condition can occur due to friction that is too strong when you clean your ears or have an injury around your ear.
When this happens you should stop cleaning your ears, until the wound is dry. If there is enough blood coming out, immediately check with your doctor so that the condition does not worsen.
5. Black
Blackish earwax indicates that the accumulated dirt is too large and difficult to get out. Excessive ear wax production usually occurs when you feel stressed, anxious, or scared.
