People have been cleaning their ears with cotton swabs for years. What other tools are being inadvertently used wrong? - eviltoast
  • SheDiceToday@eslemmy.es
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    1 year ago

    As someone with wax issues in the ears, no, q-tips suck at cleaning ears. You’ll end up pushing the wax into your eardrum and causing the impacted wax that you were trying to avoid in the first place. That’s why I use those tiny screwdrivers. /shrug

    • Fosheze@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I frequently need to clean my ears due to wax issues and I have used q-tips to do so for my entire life. I have only ever been told that my ears are immaculate at anual exams so this definitely depends on the person.

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      1 year ago

      This is only true if you have tiny ear canals and too much wax build up to begin with.