Last Wednesday (May 22), the UK government made the decision to ban plastic cotton buds, straws, and stirrers, which will be brought into effect in April 2020. Despite this, it seems that brands ...

I'm willing to admit that I've done it myself: I've cleaned the wax out of my ears with cotton buds. It's weirdly satisfying, but as we've all been told before, we really shouldn't do it. In fact ...

If you’ve been using cotton buds to clean your ears, it’s time to reconsider. Many of us grew up thinking that using cotton buds (or Q-tips) was the best way to clean our ears. After all, it ...

Scientists have warned that in the U.S., more than 12,000 children every year are left needing emergency treatment for ear injuries as a result of cotton bud use.

“Cleaning my ears every night with cotton buds, I felt a dull ache as I prodded,” she wrote, noting she had trouble hearing her two young sons, 10-year-old Dylan and 8-year-old Cody.

The woman identified only as Jasmine told That's Life she cleaned her ears every night with cotton buds. Her hearing in her left ear had been fading for a few years, and an "infuriating" noise ...

Doctors removed the cotton bud, cleaned his ear canal and treated the patient with antibiotics. All traces of the infection vanished after 10 weeks and the man remains well, without any lingering ...

A new video posted by Mr Neel Raithatha shows a complex operation performed to remove the tip of a cotton bud from a man’s ear that was on the verge of costing him his hearing ...

Here are six reasons why you shouldn’t use cotton buds to clean out wax from your ears: Ear wax serves a protective purpose for the ears Ear wax is there for a reason.

In April 2020, plastic straws, cotton buds and drink stirrers will be banned across England in an effort to tackle plastic pollution. The aim is to vastly reduce the amount of rubbish and damage ...