Cotton bud removed from ear - patient can hear again!

August 22, 2017

Cotton buds (or Q-Tips depending on where you live) are a unique product: they are commonly used for the one thing that the manufacturers explicitly warn you not to do. Cleaning your ears with them. Most makes of cotton bud have a explicit warning on the packet.

Using Q-Tips to clean your ear can feel great, if you've got a bit of an itch then it gives it a good scratch. But the dangers are real, buds have caused 10000s of visits to medical centres for people with ear infections, hearing loss, ruptured ear drums and damage to their middle-ear bones. It. Happens. A. Lot.

I found this great video on Twitter today from @Clearwax. The video shows Neel Raithatha from The Hear Clinic removing a cotton-ball end of a Q-Tip that has been stuck in someone's ear for 10 years (10 years!) and causing them hearing problems.

#EarWaxRemovalLeicester #MrNeelRaithatha #ConsultantAudiologist @TheHearClinic #UKPioneer #EndoscopicDewaxing Call 0116 271 0777 to book! pic.twitter.com/NlylnN59jk

— The Hear Clinic (@TheHearClinic) 19 July 2017

I can just imagine the sense of relief when this was pulled out.

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