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Some East Asians (including Yamato Japanese), Southeast Asians and Native Americans (including Inuit [8]) are more likely to have the dry type of earwax (gray and flaky), while Africans, Europeans, and other East Asians (including Ainu [9]) are more likely to have wet type earwax (honey-brown, dark orange to dark-brown and moist).
The phenotypes expressed by the genotypes include cerumen type (wet or dry ear wax), osmidrosis (odor associated with sweat caused by excessive apocrine secretion), and possibly breast cancer risk, although there is ongoing debate on whether there is a real correlation of the wet ear wax phenotype to breast cancer susceptibility.
A bamboo ear pick with a down puff A metal ear pick. Ear picks, also called ear scoops, or ear spoons, or earpicks, are a type of curette used to clean the ear canal of earwax (cerumen). They are preferred and are commonly used in East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia because Asians tend to develop dry ear wax. [1] [2]
Wax is normal and good for the ear. “A lot of people associate ear wax with being dirty or unclean, so there’s this kind of aggressive need to keep the ears cleaned out in some way, but we ...
A ear-picking session in Chengdu, China. Ear picking, also known as ear scooping (Chinese: simplified Chinese: 采耳; traditional Chinese: 採耳; pinyin: Cǎi ěr), is a type of traditional ear hygiene and leisure activity common in Asia. [1] It involves the process of removing earwax using various tools.
The video went viral with more than 4 million views. Another TikTok video shared Thursday by dermatologist Dr. Daniel Sugai pokes fun at the empty experience of “asking your East Asian friend ...
The non-functional ABCC11 allele is predominant among East Asians (80–95%), but very low among European and African populations (0–3%). [6] Most of the world's population has the gene that codes for the wet-type earwax and average body odor; however, East Asians are more likely to inherit the allele associated with the dry-type earwax and a ...
The Spokane Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic conducted a research study in 1996 which concluded that ear candling does not produce negative pressure and was ineffective in removing wax from the ear canal. [2] Several studies have shown that ear candles produce the same residue — which is simply candle wax and soot — when burnt without ear ...