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Since when are q-tips bad for you? Is this a new Mandela effect?
by arthurcolle 5y ago
Since when are q-tips bad for you? Is this a new Mandela effect?
- foobar33333 5y agoThe packet says do not put them in your ear. If you push them too far you could damage your ear drum. Who knows how likely this is if you are careful though.
- mlatu 5y agoSince always! You know how cannoneers used to bunch up black powder in their cannons before adding the cannonball? If there is to much ear wax already present and it's to dried out (how are you going to check beforehand if it isn't to much or to dried out?), you're just bunching up some of it while scraping some out. But the stuff you bunch up, will just sit there, until you bunch more wax into that plug... But what are you supposed to do instead? If you try to irrigate it out yourself regularly, you might end up getting a fungal infection anyway because it might stay to wet.. Ears just generally suck
- anigbrowl 5y agoThe higher end irrigation kits (similar to clinical products) come with packets of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) which you are suggested to use as a rinse following the wax removal.
- anigbrowl 5y agoThey're great until the first time you have more wax in your ear canal than you can just wipe off with a q-tip, at which point you're likely to push it farther in, where it will then take about the same time to work its way out as your fingernails take to grow. If it's a lot this can result in hearing loss or a painful impaction. Like a lot of things it can keep changing as you age until something that used to be simple/easy suddenly isn't.
- pengaru 5y agoSince at least my teens (90s). I have a distinct memory of my father telling us about not putting q-tips in further than the exterior surface after he visited his GP for a checkup. But to not go deep is to deprive the eargasm, YMMV.
- arthurcolle 5y agoMmm, be right back