Cotton swabs are probably the first thing you use to clean your ears However a doctor advises against it as it can cause ear damage and increase infection risk ...

“If you take a look at the diameter of the cotton swab, it’s about the diameter of your ear canal,” Kasper, who has been an audiologist for over 25 years, noted. “And if you just stick ...

We’ve all been in a situation where we’ve satisfied an itch in the ear by scratching it with a cotton bud or used a swab to ...

More than 35 million Americans have to deal with compacted earwax, according to studies by SafKan Health. This medical device ...

Every day, millions of Americans use cotton swabs to clean their ears. However, cotton swabs can push earwax further into the ear, causing wax blockage in the ear canal. Ear candling or ear coning can ...

We’ve all seen those alarming DIY ear wax removal videos—people with cotton swabs, car keys, anything they can find digging ...

The cotton swabs that most of us use to clean wax out of our ears are a lot more harmful than helpful. When you put a Q-tip in your ear, it actually ends up pushing most of the wax deeper into the ...

A 35-year-old male presented within 15 months of a perforating cotton swab injury to the right ear. Dislocation of the incus had initially been suspected at another center due to tympanic membrane ...

Many people use Q-Tips brand cotton swabs as tool to remove excess ear wax from inside the ear canal, but the Q-Tips box clearly says that the swabs should not be used for this purpose.