It’s important to clean your ears, but what’s the right way? And what are you doing? How do you clean your ears?
Our ears consist of three parts: the outer ear, the middle ear and the inner ear. This captures the sound from the environment and converts it into nerve impulses so that our brains can process it. So we can hear.
All healthy ears have earwax. And for good reason: it protects your ear canal from drying out. In addition, it stops moisture, dirt, dust, insects, bacteria and fungi. Removing earwax too often is therefore not good, but a little cleaning is so hygienic.
What are you doing?
How do you clean your ears? With a cotton swab in it? Do you rinse them with water? Or do you only clean the outside? Or do you never have dirty ears and earwax and never clean them? To the right of this article you can indicate what you do.
But what is really the right way?
Want to know how to properly clean your ear? You can read that here.