Picking your ears, as the name implies, is picking your ears. Ear plucking, originated from the folk, is a simple tool, usually based on local materials. Bamboo sticks and thin sticks are simple ear plucking tools.
Ear pulling originated from hairdressers, who invented professional ear pulling tools and professional operation methods.
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Picking out ears is a habit of many people in life. The numbness coming from the ear canal makes people feel very comfortable. In the past, the old hairdresser was very good at removing earwax.
However, in the eyes of otologists, such a small move as ear-plucking hides great risks. If it is not particularly necessary, it is best not to dig casually.
Most people pick out their ears to clean up the wax. Wang Wuqing, chief physician of the Otolaryngology Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, pointed out that earwax is medically called stare, which is the secretion of cerumen gland of external auditory canal.
Theoretically speaking, people don't have to pull out their ears, because the earwax in the external auditory canal can be discharged in the form of thin slices through mandibular movements such as chewing and opening their mouths.
Moreover, earwax is not useless waste, it has a certain protective effect on the skin of external auditory canal, which can prevent the infection of harmful bacteria such as mold and stick to the dust entering the ear canal, and the special smell of earwax can also prevent insects from approaching.
There are also many people who scratch their ears because of the itching of the external auditory canal, or simply to enjoy the pleasure of scratching their ears. No matter what the purpose, it is easy to cause ear canal injury by digging tools into the ear canal.
Wang Wuqing explained that the skin of the ear canal is delicate. If the ear is pulled out improperly, it is most likely to cause external auditory canal injury and infection, causing earache, and in severe cases, hearing loss.
Frequently pulling out the ear will also make the cuticle of the external auditory canal skin swell and block the hair follicle, but it will promote the growth of bacteria, leading to itchy ears and yellow water, which will make the external auditory canal skin chronically congested for a long time, which will easily stimulate the secretion of cerumen glands, but the earwax will be more.
In addition, because the ear canal is deep, the tool will touch the eardrum if it is not properly controlled after it goes deep into the ear canal. The tympanic membrane is a very thin membrane with a thickness of only 0.1mm. Once the tympanic membrane is punctured, people will lose their hearing.
Sun Jianjun, director of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Navy General Hospital, said that ear removal is really necessary only when some people have too much earwax, which leads to earwax embolism and blockage of the ear canal.
But it's best to go to the hospital and ask an otologist to help clean the ear canal. With the help of otoscope, the doctor will use glycerin to soften the earwax and clean it without hurting the ear canal.
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