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How to remove earwax?
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Don't: Ear wax or cerumen is modified sweat and is secreted by glands in the ear canal. The wax is beneficial and is protective. Wax always migrates from inside to outside and that is why instrumentation will usually push it back into the ear canal and impact it against the ear drum. If the wax build up causes hearing loss, fullness and pressure, please go to an ENT doc. In summary do not clean wax.
Answered 6/10/2014
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