A few weeks ago a 52 year old man who works in a warehouse came to see me with a 2 year history of ringing in his left ear. He had been seen in another hospital and had hearing tests and also an MRI scan of his inner ears. He was offered some medication but this had not helped. His wife suggested…
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The answer is no, and to be clear no ifs ands or buds! So many people use cotton buds to clean their ears. In fact one often wonders if the companies that make these cotton buds or q-tips had anything else in mind! My motto is ‘nothing smaller than an elbow in the ear’. Cotton buds can cause damage to the ear…
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