Everyone – even health-care professionals – will have done it at some point. But it’s dangerous – and, thanks to the ear’s self-cleaning mechanism, unnecessary
Who doesn’t enjoy sticking a cotton bud in their ear? To twist gently, pull it out and examine the white tip turned to yellow? Q-tips were part of many childhoods. The Q-tips website has users sharing how they use buds to clean not only ears but toilet cisterns and pistols. Which is just as well, as guidelines released last week by the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Foundation, state that cotton buds should not be used for cleaning ears.
Continue reading...
0 comments :
Post a Comment