Most of us have done it. After a shower, you grab a cotton swab, tilt your head, and twist it gently inside your ear. It feels satisfying, almost like a ritual. The cotton comes out with a hint of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (CBS) – There's a new study out showing just how many children are visiting hospital emergency rooms because of cotton swabs causing ear injuries. Researchers with Nationwide Children's ...

Never use Q-tips or cotton swabs to clean your ears—doing so can push earwax further into your ear and cause painful ...

When Vidya Raman’s son complained of water in his ear after a shower, she did something many mothers do. She grabbed a cotton swab. But her pre-teen son jerked when she inserted the swab. Her son ...

The most common injury among young children was a tearing, or rupturing, of the tissue that separates the ear canal from the middle ear. MinnPost’s reporters work hard to bring you news about what’s ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A man in England has sworn off cleaning his ears with cotton swabs after developing a potentially ...

You've probably used cotton swabs to clean your ears. Here's why ENTs say you shouldn't. (Getty Images) "Don’t put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear." It's the kind of thing you may have ...

Instead of removing earwax from our ears, cotton swabs are just as likely to push wax up against the eardrum, causing it to become impacted and muffling our hearing. Credit: Photo by Sharon McCutcheon ...

You’ve been told for years that you’re not supposed to clean your ear canal with a cotton swab. It’s dangerous and not very effective…. but it feels so good! So you do it anyway, day after day. The ...

She got more than an earful. Every night before bed, 37-year-old Jasmine would clean her ears with a cotton swab. She had no idea how much damage she was causing until she nearly died. “I’d been ...

Feel the need to clean your child’s ears? Step away from that cotton swab. Despite years of warnings to avoid putting the product into the ear canal, more than 263,000 children in the U.S. had to be ...