the type of earwax you have comes down in part to your skin type, Dr. Shapiro explains. People with oilier skin may have wet earwax, while those with drier skin tend to have dry earwax, she says.
People of East Asian descent are more likely to have dry earwax, while wet earwax seems to be more common with everyone else
I have the ABCC11 gene. I have dry ear wax and no body odor.
Which tastes better?
If you are the wet type you may reconsider buying expensive in-ears. The chance to ruin them quite fast is not that low.
I remember reading a fact that the same gene that leads to dry earwax also leads to higher likelihood of big boobs
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“Earwax is one of those things that you probably think about for around 0.2 seconds every other month, if that.”
Article lost all credibility in the first sentence.
Yea, if I’m not cleaning out my ears once it twice a week, I’m getting a blockage.
Need to unclog the traffic jams from the tunnels every once in a while.
Get the lead out
Apparently this is the one thing which is controlled by a single gene, and works as you were taught in school with dominant and recessive traits.
Nothing else does, including the things you were taught like eye and hair colour - they are much more complicated.
I’m going to doubt the single gene hypothesis. I have dry ear wax in one ear and wet in the other.
Is there any chance you’re a chimera?
Hmm, maybe it’s one per ear?!
Did you wash one ear and not the other?
Or did you sleep on one side on a sweaty night?Do you notice that the amount and/or scent of your perspiration is different comparing the two sides of your body?
Something (maybe Alexandrite") borked the link for me. If anyone else has the same issue, here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaqQJj24yCY_bDQ35jS0Gvw
And yeah, that’s nasty. I had to get my earwax flushed out once. It was unpleasant and super gross, and I’ve used the specialized peroxide solutions a couple of times in the years since. My wife has the dry wax gene, and finds wet wax both gross and confusing.
The only thing I’ll add is that having used a cheap camera earwax cleaner, the magnification makes every normal little waxbooger look like a Star Trek brain slug, so while still dramatic (don’t get me wrong), the videos always look just a touch more dramatic than they really are.
Whoa. O. M. G. 🥺
What’s the matter, Zerlyna? Did I post the wrong link?
“The only safe way to clean wax from the ear canal at home is with earwax drops,” Dr. Tweel says. That means applying a few drops of something like baby oil, mineral oil, glycerin, or hydrogen peroxide in your ear canal and letting it sit for a day or two
That’s one way to spend your weekend.
I’ll continue to live dangerously via Q-tips. Been doing it since I was a child, and no doctor’s told me I’ve irreparably damaged my ears yet.
The trick with Q-tips is to not go far. I mainly use it to clean the initial part of my ear and only rubbing it in a circular manner to prevent cramming anything in there. If I find myself the need to go deeper, I will use eardrops.
The best discovery in my life is something called the Elephant Ear. It’s a squirt bottle for getting water behind your earwax and pushing it out from the back
Hydrogen peroxide dissolves it, when the bubbling stops it’s done.
I just recently discovered the use of peroxide in this way. It’s cheap and works better than anything else I’ve tried.
This seems to be a plant… Can you provide a link or something?
As a kid, I had really bad earwax and had to go to the doctor because it was affecting my hearing. They used this and it was life changing.
https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Washer-Bottle-Doctor-Easy/dp/B005M2B5P0
I use a cotton swab when it becomes itchy or I can feel and hear it moving.
