When Dirt Ears Need Cleaned?

Earwax has a function to protect the ears from damage and infections that do not need to be cleaned too often. But earwax is also sometimes disrupt the hearing. When should earwax cleaned?
The skin on the outer ear canal has special glands that produce earwax known as cerumen.
Typically, a small amount of ear wax accumulates and then dries up and out of the ear canal, bringing unwanted dust particles or sand.
Cerumen or earwax forms differ between people with one another. Perhaps the most liquid, solid and firm or in the form of dry skin. The color also varies depending on the composition.
Most of the ear canal can clean itself, by way of ear canal skin layer migrate from the eardrum to the outer ear opening.
Old earwax will continue to be transported from the deeper regions of the ear canal toward the exit, usually dry, flake and fall.
When it should be cleaned?
In ideal circumstances, a person should not have to clean up his ears. But sometimes people even less frequent cleaning ears ears up any liquid dry lubricant.
As reported by MedicineNet, Tuesday (18/05/2010), excessive earwax can form inside the ear canal for various reasons, among others:
Narrowing of the ear canal due to infection or skin disease, bone, or connective tissueProduction of liquid cerumen less (more common in older people because aging of the glands that produce earwax)Excessive cerumen in response to trauma or blockage within the ear canal
If earwax accumulates so much so as to form blocks the ear canal and interfere with hearing, then that's when earwax needs to be cleaned.
One might try using a cotton bud (ear cleaning with cotton) or ear drops ear when the dirt is too hard.
The use of cotton bud best done when the state of liquid wax and not a little harsh.Because if the hard ear wax, then use a cotton bud it will make the dirt deeper into the ear.And to use ear drops, it is very important to know that your ear has not been perforated (leaking) the ear drum before using the product.

Using ear drops with the state of perforated eardrum can cause infections of the middle ear. And also if accompanied by pain, local pain or skin rashes should stop using the drops.
At times like these, doctors may have to clean the earwax out (known as lavage), with a vacuum, or even membersihnya with special instruments.