What These 8 Earwax Colors Say About Your Health

What The Color Of Your Earwax Says About Your Health 🔷🔷🔷 What does the color of your earwax say about your body? You can learn a lot about your health from that stuff that comes out of your ears! If you find this information helpful, please SHARE it with your friends!

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1. Soft and Pale Yellow Earwax

This type of wax usually belongs to children. As children grow older, they will produce less. It is normal and healthy for children to produce a lot more earwax than adults.

2. Wet, Sticky, and Yellow Earwax

This is one of two common varieties of cerumen found in most people. It is good at lubricating the ear canal, which prevents it from becoming dry and itchy.

3. Dark and Sticky Earwax

Dark earwax indicates the way your body sweats. People with darker earwax usually produce more body odor than people with lighter wax. However, both varieties are perfectly healthy.

4. White, Dry, and Flaky Earwax

This is the other most common type of wax found inside your ears. This variety of cerumen is linked to a recessive gene. In turn, this color of earwax is usually seen in people who produce less body odor.

5. Thick and Dark Earwax

When stressed or afraid, your glands produce more wax than normal. When earwax is produced faster than your body can push it out, a wax buildup can occur. Too much earwax can cause a blockage, or even temporary hearing loss.

6. Dark Brown or Black Earwax

While scary looking, it is probably no cause for alarm. Dark earwax could be a sign of the overproduction of wax from stress as mentioned. Fats in your earwax react to oxygen. The longer the wax is in your ear canal, the more oxygen it’s exposed to, leading to a darker hue.

7. Bloody Earwax

Older and darker earwax may have a similar appearance to blood. It could also be an indication of a ruptured ear drum. To be safe, it’s best to see a doctor immediately.

8. Gray Earwax

This type of earwax could be the result of a dust buildup. While unusual it is a sign of the earwax doing its job by protecting your eardrum from foreign objects. If accompanied by cracking, dry, or itchy skin inside the ear canal, it could be seborrheic eczema. A doctor can provide treatment in this case.

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It's normal for wax to leak from the ear canal from time to time in small degrees, as this is your ear’s natural cleaning mechanism. However, large volumes of drainage with blood and pus in them is a sure sign of a ruptured or perforated ear drum, so always consult a doctor if something feels off.

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[grrxvve]

So nobody is gonna talk about how good it feels to put a cutip in ur ears after a 🚿?

[oonalovesgames-ing]

The dark one was like it might mean that you are having stress
Me: That might be correct

[ralph]

Mine is mostly yellow but I just got a dark brown ear wax. A quite big piece actually

[kwago.]

is the thick and dark wax come out by himself? or got stock unless i clean it

[mirandakeigher]

I have eczema in my ears. It's usually a very light yellow or clear, and very watery. Horribly itchy

[demmiebates]

What if your ear smells a bit does it mean odour sweating and thay

[Jeng]

I had a clogged ear earlier. Nothing is worse than that. So I irrigated my ear canal with Luke warm water and I can hear again!😁👍🏻 Gonna be careful-my right ear canal is irritated and kinda bloody. But not so bad as of now.

[PraveenSrJ]

Sharing this video with my family and friends

[shauns.random.adventures]

I have a half moon shaped white shell covering half my ear drum left side
my doctors not got a clue rare aparantley she never seen before would love any feedback

[Aerox]

Mine is usually like a red-ish brown colored mushy clay. It's soft and sticky, but kind of dry at the same time. Like Play-Doh.

[elnikocelinapt]

I sometimes have it white, sometimes yellow and it smells horrible, its not that classic smell.All of this started in a day when i noticed the new type of wax and then after like 2 weeks my left ear started hurting so bad and i heard worse.now its been like 3 months i hear well, the pain is gone but i still have that yellow bad smelling wax.What should i do?

[andreapatane]

I find these facts about ear wax colors very interesting, because they seem to have plenty of information about them. Safety first when it comes to cleaning out your ears on behalf of observing waxy buildup these days.

[nmlightning]

ive got a watery and white ear wax and its not sticky or cloudy whats this ?

[Onion]

Is it normal to have different wax on each ear?
Like one is yellow greenish and pale, the other one brown

[queen_of_weebos]

Just earlier my left ear is kinda clogged, i can't clearly hear at my left ear... so i scratch it with my finger to hear more clearly but i felt something wet again (well my ear canal is not normal). I used earbuds and cleaned it but it's yellowish and wet with small fresh blood spot on it.

It happens many times on me before but, this time kinda panicked me... i dunno why?

[mr.x]

I have had a variety of colors: orange, yellow, clear, beige, gray, white, brown.

[oonalovesgames-ing]

The bloody ear wax was like it also might mean that the dark one could have had a rupture in the eardrum.
My mom: Stop using your headphones somethings gonna happen to your eardrum
Me right now: I'm gonna die

[SoniaLopez-efom]

Mine is grey
Smells like stinky dog
If touched to much it will block my hearing but recovers fast

[kurtzionsabanal]

Mine is a black yellow and white earwax and it has liquid with it that smells like grease what does it mean?

[zenitsu]

My earwax was black and I tend to smile when I havent seen such things before in my life even if its scary, and I was searching why this happen while giggling, something is wrong with me.