Talk:Earwax

message: Wasn't cerumenex removed from the market? Pollira (talk) 15:57, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  cerumenex 

message: Shouldn't it be more like earwax: waht it does followed by a pathology section?--68.225.194.245 (talk) 04:14, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I think the "signs and symptoms" section is misplaced. I should be somewhere, but not there. Earwax is generally beneficial. Should we really start the article with a sterotype based on earwax gone bad, when that is the exceptional and not typical?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.220.1.141 (talk) 05:23, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, this is moronic. 72.200.151.13 (talk) 20:27, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  earwax is a disease? 

message: Reference http://books.google.com/books?id=Qe_hJ8qZb7oC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=electroscope+homemade+ear+wax&source=bl&ots=dPz4BQLlxR&sig=2v7yBrlkGSMLKAbwy0bUXAmtUjg&hl=en&ei=RMpwTr74CaTkiALtopT3Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false
I shall paraphrase the first 3 paragraphs of page 88, New Scientist, July 30 1987 as the link above is to an image file so unable to efficiently copy and paste.
Because of its relatively high electrical conductivity (relative to non metal filled adhesives), and its relatively long term stability, and its easy availability, - it is ideal for the amateur manufacture of a gold or aluminum leaf electroscope. If a competent editor feels this is worthy information, please edit and include it in the earwax article + link to electroscope article. Ecstatist (talk) 16:07, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of earwax: (slightly electrically conductive adhesive)homemade  electroscope  

message: Does earwax also prevent small creatures from entering the ear canal? It would seem that the wax might also block breathing orifices of many small creatures preventing them from going further into the canal. 101.51.230.244 (talk) 01:50, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: If you find a reliable source discussing this, do get back to us. - SummerPhD (talk) 04:51, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  clogs breathing orifices of small creatures 

message: We're told we shouldn't use cotton swabs, and we're told we shouldn't use drops like Debrox, etc.
Well, what's left?  
"A natural conveyor-belt movement will remove the wax!"
Rol.  I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
I'll wager most ENT's stick those swabs in their ears every morning like most other human beings on the planet.  "Do as I say, not as I do".  It's no surprise more and more people are suspicious of physicians, and are turning to alternative therapies everyday.
But we're trained professionals!!  We can use Q-tips safely, and you can't!!
Um, OK.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.51.217.118 (talk) 19:32, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Edit -- it's like telling teenagers that marijuana is bad, and then they smoke it, and nothing bad happens, and the sky doesn't fall.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.51.217.118 (talk) 19:37, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cotton Swabs, etc. 

message: Its use in the article contradicts the definition at English Wikipedia "Lubrication" (...the process or technique of using a lubricant to reduce friction and/or wear in a contact between two surfaces.) It seems someone (or some group) has confused lubrication with "Moisturizer" and "emollient", unless this is an accepted use in some field. Abstracts of the references don't mention a purpose of lubrication, so I could just bin it. Adx (talk) 03:13, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lubrication 

message: ~~>protected Earwax State Unambiguously your suggested changes below this line, preferably in a "change X to Y" format. Other editors need to know what to add or remove. Blank edit requests will be declined. Write your request ABOVE this line and do not remove the tildes and curly brackets below.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.101.213.183 (talk) 18:58, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 3 March 2023 

message: Earwax answered questions Yes
State University your suggested changes below this line preferably in a change X to Y format. Other editors need to know what to add or remove Blank edit requests will be declined.
Write your request ABOVE this line and do not remove the tildes and curly brackets below.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.239.211.91 (talk) 02:43, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Can we find out which school this person is affiliated with and get their whole IP block banned?  Look at the nonsense coming from this address.  57.135.233.22 (talk) 09:00, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  protected edit request on 13 August 2023