More online at www.VirginiaHearingAids.com. The canals in our ears are covered with hair follicles as well as glands that produce an oily wax known as cerumen, or ear wax. This wax lines the interior ...

"Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear! Cotton swabs are for cleaning belly buttons, not ears." That's what everyone's grandmother says. Ear wax, medically known as cerumen ...

I experience an itch in my ear that makes me try to clean my ears throughout the day. Not only is it inconvenient and annoying - I'm worried about damageing my hearing. Is it a bacterial/fungal ...

Around six percent of the population suffer from excessive earwax, typically the elderly and children. Having too much earwax can be distressing and cause pain or even deafness, so it’s important to ...

Not hearing properly or have blocked ears with no flu? Before you rush to hospital in a panic, it could be due to excessive wax believe it or not. Brown, grey, reddish orange or even yellowish in ...

Some people post cute baby pictures, what they've had for lunch or snaps from their hiking trips on Instagram. Not this audiologist. Scroll through his Instagram, if you dare, and you'll find video ...

Medically known as cerumen, ear wax is a soft, natural substance secreted by the sebaceous glands lining the ear canal. While ear wax is constantly being produced by young and old alike, it can often ...

About 12 million Americans visit the doctor each year complaining of ear wax buildup. The new guidelines, issued by the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) ...

The NHS must recommence removing ear wax if people are to avoid damaging their ears, warns deaf and hearing loss charity. Every year 2.3 million people in the UK require their ear wax to be removed by ...

Earwax, scientifically known as cerumen, is technically just skin cells that have fallen off inside the ear, bits of hair and secretion from the ceruminous glands mixed together. Although earwax is ...