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

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    6 months ago

    I had to get my earwax flushed out once.

    Like, with a warm water jet by a nurse?

    It’s ooky but it certainly works.

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      6 months ago

      Yup. Big-ass syringe full of warm water, possibly with some solution in it (I don’t recall that part). It was affecting my hearing in one ear, and the flush fixed it right up.