Is there such thing as cleaning ears too often?!
Question: Is there such thing as cleaning ears too often!?
I know I know how to clean my ears, dont go too deep and all that jazz, but I seem to "need" to clean my ears daily!. Is this bad!? Am I at risk for ear infections since no natural wax builds up!? A friend told me I was, just wanted to see if it was true!. THANKS!Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Wax is normal protective layer for the sensitive skin of ear canal!.This coating helps repel water & when you clean it out you make your ear more vulnerable to infection!.
Chronic cleaning of ear causes dryness leading to itching ,scratching and if you are cleaning it daily you know vicious circle!. Continues itching may cause damage of skin and in turn bacterial & fungal infections!.
Sometimes accidentally if you go too deep you may hurt your ear-drum ( I have seen patients having ear bleed when they were doing cleaning jobs religiously & there kids just jumped over them)!.
Excess,hard wax causing obstruction is to be removed (20% of population have tendency to accumulate wax because of anatomical reasons) but if you try this by yourself you tend to push it further inside causing impacted wax and related problems!.
Now, I hope you got the point, I usually tell my overenthusiastic patients "ear cleaning is useless job, you don't need it if you don't have the excess wax & you won't be able to remove it if you have excess wax!."
And yes it becomes a habit!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Chronic cleaning of ear causes dryness leading to itching ,scratching and if you are cleaning it daily you know vicious circle!. Continues itching may cause damage of skin and in turn bacterial & fungal infections!.
Sometimes accidentally if you go too deep you may hurt your ear-drum ( I have seen patients having ear bleed when they were doing cleaning jobs religiously & there kids just jumped over them)!.
Excess,hard wax causing obstruction is to be removed (20% of population have tendency to accumulate wax because of anatomical reasons) but if you try this by yourself you tend to push it further inside causing impacted wax and related problems!.
Now, I hope you got the point, I usually tell my overenthusiastic patients "ear cleaning is useless job, you don't need it if you don't have the excess wax & you won't be able to remove it if you have excess wax!."
And yes it becomes a habit!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
im not sure if you can clean them to often, but i do exactly the same somtimes twice a day they drive me mad otherwiseWww@Answer-Health@Com