Cotton buds are one of the most perplexing things ... The shape, size, and texture are such that inserting them into your ears tends to push wax inward, toward your ear drum, rather than woo ...

Flushing a cotton bud down the lavatory will no longer be so harmful to the environment, under plans from one of the world's biggest toiletry manufacturers to switch from plastic to paper sticks.

It’s something that many people do without think twice, but a new video may put you off cleaning your ears with a cotton bud. The video shows a complex operation performed to remove the tip of a ...

The video, which was taken at the Hear Clinic in Oadby, Leicestershire, shows forceps making their way through the ear to retrieve the cotton bud. Hairs and grissle can be seen throughout the ear ...

The graphic clip shows a doctor working to dislodge a trapped bud from deep inside his patient's ear IF you've ever used cotton buds to give your ears a good clean, then you're sure to be ...

The man went to a clinic in Leicestershire complaining of pain and limited hearing in his right ear THIS grim video shows a man having a cotton bud pulled out of his ear two years after it got ...

A boy who has been partially deaf for nine years was suddenly cured - when a cotton wool bud popped out of his ear. Jerome Bartens was diagnosed as deaf in his right ear when he was just two and has ...

WATCH the gross moment the “Wax Whisperer” pulls a cotton bud out of a patients ear that had been stuck there for 10 YEARS. The clip shows Neel Raithatha, who runs a hearing clinic in ...

My current life partner is suffering from an ear infection caused, most likely, due to her overuse of cotton buds. You know the ones. Three-inch plastic straws with pea-sized cotton balls at ea ...

A mum of four has told of how she came close to death after cleaning her ears with a cotton bud. Jasmine Small, 38, of Grafton in northern NSW, didn’t realise how dangerous the seemingly ...

Then suddenly the reason for his problems became clear - when the end of a cotton bud popped out of his ear. Scroll down for more... His family believe that he must have poked the bud in the ear ...

Plastic straws and cotton buds were already on a list of items which ... Paper and card will not seem much different to plastic in terms of texture but some people have raised questions about ...