Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Q-tips: Keep Them Out of Your Ears

No, no...

Never inside the ear.

Years ago, my mother complained about a terrible earache, Robero Ferdman reports on washingtonpost.com.

The pain was unbearable. And it wouldn't go away — for a week, she walked around with a debilitating ringing in her head, he added.

Eventually, she recalled to me the other day, the discomfort led her to a doctor, who carefully pushed an otoscope into her ear. Within seconds, he pulled it out and looked her in the face.

"Have you been putting Q-tips in your ears?" he asked with a disapproving tone.

For more on why you shouldn't use Q-tips inside the ear:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/20/we-have-a-q-tips-problem/?tid=sm_fb

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