When you notice wax in your ears or feel like your ears are clogged or full, it's tempting to grab a Q-tip from your medicine cabinet and use it to try to remove whatever's in your ear. However, this ...

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Cotton swabs “really weren’t made to clean your ears — all they do is just push the wax deeper down into your ear canal and this causes an impaction,” Dr. Tonia L. Farmer, who goes by Dr. Nose Best, ...

It may seem puzzling that your ears — which of course operate best when they’re not clogged up — produce a waxy substance that sometimes seems to do just that. But earwax actually plays an important ...

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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 ...

Lots of people grew up thinking Q-tips were meant to clean the inside of their ears, but Dr. Uma Darji says that method can “do more harm than good.” See: The risk of everything from blockages and ...

Ah, TikTok, home of makeup tutorials, lip-syncing tunes, cute animal content and—earwax removal videos? Yes, it’s true: That goopy amber stuff on your For You page is coming out of someone’s ear canal ...

Raise your hand if you've ever been personally victimized by a cotton swab. (Hi, yes, my hand is raised.) I've actually managed to get one stuck in my ear before. Ever since that moment, I've always ...