Orgasm in the left ear, cough in the right ear? Can this earwax still be removed...

I believe many people have had earwax removed and have a deep understanding of this.

Especially, when the slender ear pick is inserted into the black hole and scoops of earwax out from the narrow external auditory canal, the mysterious pleasure like electric shock makes you unable to stop, and the overwhelming satisfaction often feels extremely addictive... Therefore, there are many people who are addicted to ear cleaning and "clean up" their ears every now and then, but there are also people who enjoy ear cleaning for a while, but suffer from ear crematoriums, such as damaging the eardrum, hearing loss, and fungal infections that cause mold in the ears...

On Ear Care Day, let’s talk about earwax cleaning with Jiang Jiang and Su Su!

Earwax picking "high" or coughing?

Earwax extraction can give you a "high"? This may be one of the reasons why many people are addicted to ear cleaning. But this "high" is not the same as that "high".

Freud once said: All excretion brings pleasure. From the perspective of neuroendocrine, excretion can indeed stimulate the nervous system to secrete serotonin, and serotonin makes people feel relaxed and relieves stress. So when we take out a large pile of old earwax, the sublimation from the depths of the soul is simply intoxicating.

In addition, the skin of our external auditory canal is rich in nerve endings. The sensory nerve endings convert external stimuli into nerve impulses and transmit them to the most sensitive organ in the human body - the brain, thereby arousing pleasant pleasure.

Simply put, the ear mucosa is very sensitive. In particular, there is a vagus nerve in our ears - the auricular branch of the vagus nerve on the skin of the posterior wall of the external auditory canal.

The vagus nerve is the 10th cranial nerve, the longest and most widely distributed of the cranial nerves, containing sensory, motor and parasympathetic nerve fibers. You should know that the vagus nerve has a very close relationship with the spinal nucleus of the trigeminal nerve, and the spinal nucleus happens to be related to the transmission of pain impulses. Pleasure and pain have always been inextricably linked, so...

Coughing when you pick your ears is also related to the vagus nerve.

Coughing is a protective nerve reflex of the throat, and coughing usually occurs when the throat is irritated. So how did a nerve reflex related to the throat reach the ear?

This is because the cough reflex nerves are wrapped in the vagus nerve. As mentioned above, there is also a vagus nerve in the external auditory canal. The vagus nerve is the vagus nerve after all, and it has a mysterious movement. Although everyone's nerves (infrastructure) look similar, the nerve reflex is functional, so there is a small number of people whose nerves have "mysterious cross-wires" in the vagus nerve or medulla oblongata when transmitting signals.

When cleaning your ears, once the skin of the external auditory canal is irritated, the mucous membrane on the surface of the throat will also be irritated, and it will feel itchy. As a result, some people cough when they clean their ears. This phenomenon is called "ear-cough reflex" in medicine. It is not a disease, and only a small number of people will have this physiological reaction.

Do people really need to clean their ears?

Generally speaking, no.

Earwax has the function of self-excretion and self-cleaning. When you eat, chew, yawn, and other movements, they will promote the excretion of earwax. And although earwax has the word "crap" in its name, it is actually "useful crap" .

Earwax, also known as "cerumen", is a substance secreted by the cerumen glands in the skin of the cartilage of the external auditory canal. Its main components are oil, stearin, fatty acids, protein and yellow pigment, as well as 0.1% water, a small amount of chalk, potassium, sodium and other elements. (So, the saying that "eating earwax will make you dumb" that we have heard since childhood is obviously not true.)

It is called useful excrement because earwax can:

1. Fight against bacteria and viruses

2. Prevent foreign matter from entering the ear canal

3. Protect the eardrum

Therefore, if there is no discomfort in the ears, there is no need to pick them out deliberately. Frequent ear picking has many harmful effects:

1. Stimulate the skin of the external auditory canal to secrete more earwax, and the more you dig, the more earwax you will secrete.

2. It can easily cause damage to the skin of the external auditory canal, leading to infection, resulting in ear pain, itching, and pus discharge.

3. Accidentally puncturing the eardrum can lead to hearing loss or even permanent hearing loss.

4. Sharing ear-cleaning tools can transmit diseases , the most common of which is human papillomavirus, which causes papilloma in the external auditory canal.

Of course, this does not mean that you cannot remove the earwax at all. There are exceptions to everything. Some people cannot remove it. Over time, the earwax will get stuck together and cause cerumen blockage, resulting in local itching of the ear, stuffy ears, hearing loss, tinnitus, dizziness, reflex coughing, etc., which requires professional help to clean.

In this case, it is best to have a specialist help clean it to avoid damaging the external auditory canal and eardrum. Don't do it yourself or go to a barber shop, foot massage shop or street stall to clean it out, as it is easy to cause problems.

You are reading popular science while picking earwax

Need to pay attention!

To be honest, I am embarrassed to tell my friends who like to pick earwax that it is absolutely not allowed. So I can only teach you the correct posture and method of picking earwax:

If you really can't help it, it's best to use a soft cotton swab (or a clean finger without nails) and gently rotate it at the opening of the external auditory canal, and the depth should not exceed 1.5 cm.

Never use sharp objects such as hairpins and toothpicks as these can easily damage the ear canal skin and eardrum.

As for the cycle, once a month, not too often. (You can clean the auricle once a week.)