You & # 39; You have used cotton swabs bad this time, and & # 39; It is dangerous

These small cotton pads that throw many of our bathrooms seem like the perfect way to clean ears, but they are to clean a very dangerous way dirt and grime.

Researchers in Israel have found that the cotton pads represent 40 percent of cases of tympanic membrane, according to a new study published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. For the study, researchers at the University of Tel Aviv, the medical records of 80 patients studied - 20 children, 60 adults - with perforated eardrums. 40 percent of the injuries caused by cotton swabs, five percent were serious enough require surgery.

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These statistics can seem horrible (and still are), but these taxes are not responsible for most of the tympanic injury. This distinction, according to researchers, it is necessary to be taken a trauma like a blow to the head or by an ocean wave. This trauma caused not cause direct damage, but not extreme cause a lot of pressure on one side of the ear canal. Ears operate at this pressure level, causing serious Pop drilling and eardrum.

How to clean the ears with no swab

Also, the company known for cotton swabs Q-tips - Company - his ears guards to mention when talking about the product. The brand has a story on its website , but says only that the founder Leo Gerstenzang created after "Looks his wife Watten heal application -. teeth "

The best way to clean the ear, according to the ear of the physician, is to use a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and oil. Dale Tylor, MD, pediatric and general ENT - physician at the Medical Foundation Washington Township in Fremont, California, said Greatist that the best way to clean your ears puts three drops of olive oil, mineral oil or baby in the ears of a cotton ball, (to keep the oil in the ears) followed night. The next morning, some hydrogen peroxide rubs in the ears; it bubble and remove the earwax with it.

Nevertheless, one full feel of wax? That's not a bad thing, for it is to protect our ears and our hearing.

"[Earwax] is not inherently bad things, and therefore should not be easily removed because it is now," Peter Roland, an ear, a doctor from the nose and throat at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas she said LiveScience . "In fact, it has a function and so if you do not have to carry it out, leave it alone."

See your doctor if you think you have had a wax impact because this can be a problem, but not shame.

"I have a lot of people here who are horrified when I see a little wax in the ear, then begins dirty and they are just very annoying, if any, to apologize," he explained Roland LiveScience. "And I think the big message here is that it has a physiological function, and unless there is a reason to remove it you leave it alone. It's OK."

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