00:00As a professor of audiology, settle this one once and for all, is it okay to put a cotton bud
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00:04your ear to try to get earwax out? You know it's so tempting to put a cotton bud or some
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00:09pointed object like a hairpin into your ear canal but there are a couple of problems with that. The
00:15first is you might just push the wire further down into your ear canal and if you push it down
00:20further it will stay there longer and get harder and set like concrete. The second reason is if
00:27you're not an expert and know about the anatomy of the length of your ear canal, you may just do
00:30some
00:30damage by scraping the side of your ear canal or pushing it right down to where your eardrum is.
00:37So I mean cotton buds are used. Families, we used them when we had babies just to get any
00:42mock out of the bowl of your ear but you definitely shouldn't put it down your ear canal. So my
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00:48tip is that they're not for pushing down the ear canal. So Greg, you and others shouldn't be doing it.
00:53Noted. Damn.
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