Using cotton swaps inside your ear can cause damage, impacted earwax, or infection. If your ears feel plugged up, a healthcare professional can clean them. Many people use cotton swabs to clean their ...

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 ...

Also Read: Harmless Ear Bud Can Trigger Tinnitus, How to Safely Clean Your Ears? What Happens When You Clean Your Ears With A Cotton Swab? In an interaction with the OnlyMyHealth team, Dr Shamik Mehta ...

I could not wait to get home from work today to write about my afternoon. Even as a pediatrician, I sometimes get "coaxed" into seeing an adult patient, usually the parent of one of my patients. So, I ...

"Don’t put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear." It's the kind of thing you may have heard your grandmother say, but, for the most part, it’s true, says Dr. Bradley Kesser, an ear, nose and ...