Enough Is Enough — Here's Why You Need To Stop Using Q-Tips To Clean Your Ears
Ever since I saw that episode of Girls where Hannah punctured her eardrum with a Q-tip, I vowed to never use the cursed device to clean my ears again — no matter how waxy they became.
My friends, on the other hand, are all avid Q-tip users. And I'm gonna guess a lot of you who are reading this are too. I know most people have the sense to not go eardrum-deep with those babies, but have you ever asked a doctor if you should really be excavating anything from your ears at all?
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That's where Emily J Taylor, AuD., FAAA comes into the picture to help us out. She's a doctor of Audiology based in Baltimore, Maryland, and she just so happens to make a lot of informative TikToks about ear health.
In a video that now has over 26 million views on the platform, she uses a model of an ear, peanut butter, and a Q-tip to demonstrate why you shouldn't use the cotton buds to remove wax.
@dr_ear_wax PSA on Qtips! Stop using them to clean your ears! #qtip #wax #earwax #earcleaning #debrox #earcandle #unrealisticthings #holidaycountdown #familytime
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