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05/18/2017 / By Tracey Watson

More children are admitted to the emergency room each day for cotton tip swab injuries than for firearm injuries

You can find them in every supermarket in the country: The cotton tip applicators are displayed right there beside the baby shampoo or perhaps in the toiletries aisle. And we expect to find them there because we’ve all been taught that we need them to clean our ears. What many of us don’t realize is […]

05/13/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

The dirty truth about clean ears: Why you shouldn’t use cotton swabs in your ears

Cleaning your ear with a cotton tip applicator may feel good, but be warned: You could risk a trip to the emergency room. In fact, the multi-purpose cotton swab has already sent thousands of children into hospitals all over the United States. Researchers from the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio analyzed cases from 1990 […]

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