Q-tips were invented in 1923 by Polish-American inventor Leo Gerstenzang, who was inspired after watching his wife Ziuta ...

If your ears feel plugged up, a healthcare professional can clean them. Many people use cotton swabs to clean their ears. The reason for this is often to clear earwax from the ear canal.

Feel the need to clean your child’s ears? Step away from that cotton swab. Despite years of warnings to avoid putting the product into the ear canal, more than 263,000 children in the U.S. had ...

A man who apparently lived with a cotton bud stuck in his ear for years before it led to a dangerous infection is highlighting the risk of cleaning ears with swabs. Doctors recently described his ...

(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 ...

The trademarked cotton swab has been a staple of medicine cabinets since 1923. Check out some facts that may have you looking at the cotton-topped sticks in a new light. 1. THEY WERE ORIGINALLY CA ...

Gerstenzang started a company that year to develop and manufacture the first ready-made sterilized cotton swabs for baby care. Over the next couple of years, he worked to design a machine that ...