What are the repercussions of this?
I envision flakey being less likely to clog up, but also less likely to do its job and vice versa.
Can confirm. I’m an Audiologist and remove earwax all day.
What’s your opinion on cerumen?
Not sure what you mean?
What’s your opinion on cerumen? Seems pretty straightforward.
What about it?
What do you think about it?
Cerumen is a good thing if it’s not causing complications. Lubricates the skin to stop drying, antimicrobial/anti fungal for certain things, helps maintain acidity.
Ear canal is like a conveyor belt and keeps carrying it out, a lot of the earwax is actually dead skin. For most people, being conservative and mostly cleaning the outer ear entrance is just fine.
It’s a problem if it’s blocking the ear, trapping water in the ear after showers, on the eardrum, affecting hearing aids etc.
Qtips suck for ears and often make things worse. Many times a day I see a wall of earwax blocking the ear with a qtip indent in it. I also see bruises from qtips in the canal all the time. Very rarely people that have shoved the qtip through the eardrums (very bad).
The genes aren’t unique to Asians, it’s just most have it over there.
Europeans are way more likely to just have one copy of the “Asian” gene than two copies tho.
Which fucking sucks, because you get both types of earwax and the gooey and flakey get all mushed up.
And that, is how I imagine crunchy peanut butter
I think I just threw up in my mouth
Was it moist and gooey or dry and flakey?
