Let’s be honest: there’s something oddly satisfying about a cotton bud in the ear. That gentle tickle, the sense of accomplishment as you ‘clean’ out the wax—it’s a ritual many of us have indulged in ...

Sang, the Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT ... hearing is that when using a cotton bud to clean earwax, you push the wax deeper into the ear, and it will be piling up like the way sedimentary rocks ...

My current life partner is suffering from an ear infection caused, most likely, due to her overuse of cotton buds. Did you know ... and let me know - but speak up, for some reason I can’t ...

When we use cotton buds, what we actually end up doing is pushing earwax deeper into the ear where it gets stuck in the parts that don’t, and can’t, clean themselves. The trapped earwax may ...