It's dangerous in general. A friend of my dad was cleaning his ears, his wife opened the bathroom door which bumped his arm which pushed the q-tip in and broke

It's dangerous in general. A friend of my dad was cleaning his ears, his wife opened the bathroom door which bumped his arm which pushed the q-tip in and broke his ear. I use q-tips to clean my ears nearly every day but I take precautions to not stand near any doors and if someone else is in the room I make sure my arm using the q-tip is pointing in a direction unlikely to get bumped. http://blogs.webmd.com/all-ears/2006/11/q-tips-weapons-of-ear-destruction.html http://blogs.webmd.com/all-ears/2006/11/q-tips-weapons-of-ea...