This is a continuation of my post on how deep should I poke into the ears.
I am sure most of you have cleaned the inside of your ears before. You may clean them using a tissue, a cotton bud, an ear pick or just by digging with your finger nail. Sooner or later (if it had not already happen), you may even be cleaning someone else’s ears. The question is how deep can we dig into the ears without injuring the eardrums?
I use either a cotton bud or an ear pick to clean my own ears. Although I have always wanted to dig and clean as deep as, I have never dared to insert them deeper than an inch. However, I have seen a lady in the hair saloon “jamming” a cotton bud a lot deeper into her ears than what I dare to. She was literally pushing slightly more than half of the cotton bud into her ears vigorously. I was probably more concerned about her than she was of herself.
I brought up this topic because I was at the hair saloon the other day and I saw a mother cleaning her daughter’s ears with a cotton bud. The girl must be less than 10 years old. She was covering her face with her hands and trying her best not to scream while her mother was doing the cleaning. It was obvious that she was feeling a lot of pain. I wondered if the mother poked too deeply into her ears.
Anyway, I have just read that it is not advisable to clean the inside of the ears with a cotton bud. Doing so may push the wax further into the ears or even injure the eardrum. Therefore, it is advisable to use cotton buds only to clean the external of the ears.
However, I am still not able to find the answer to my question — how deep can we put an object into our ears to clean it without hurting the eardrum (or any other things in it)? What do you use to clean your ears? How deep do you put it into your ears?
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