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Can you be allergic to your own earwax?

Asked by poofandmook (17320points) September 9th, 2008

I feel like I’ve asked this question before, but I went back 80 pages and couldn’t find it. And I don’t have the answer, so I suppose I haven’t.

The insides of my ears get extremely itchy, to the point where sometimes my toes curl and I have to ball my fists to keep from sticking something in my ear. A doctor (not my own, I keep forgetting to ask him) I saw once to have the wax flushed out… because I get really clogged fairly often… said that it was wax that was making my ears itch, and that I should use Debrox once a week.

Since everyone produces earwax, and I don’t see anyone else balling their fists to keep from shoving things in their ears, it seems unlikely that it’s simply the wax. Can I be allergic to it?

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