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This past Monday was the long-anticipated debut of over-the-counter hearing aids, the day they could be sold at stores, pharmacies, and online after the FDA signed off on these less expensive options that require no health care professional’s input.
No, you shouldn't be putting cotton buds inside your ears.
Unfortunately, we use Q-tips for the very thing it specifically warns us not to do. Every Q-tips box has a warning label: \
The origins of this strange consumer phenomenon can be traced to Leo Gerstenzang, an immigrant from Poland and the inventor of the "Baby Gays" we now know as Q-tips.
(CNN) — Every Q-tips box has a warning label: “Do not insert swab into ear canal,” and if you’re going to use it to clean your ears, gently swab the outer part only. But extracting wax from our ear canals is precisely why most of us buy Q-tips in the first place. The humble Q-tip […]