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.

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 ...

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 ...

Thousands of kids wind up in U.S. emergency rooms every year for ear injuries caused by cotton swabs, a new study reveals. The analysis of federal data found that about 263,000 children were ...

Here’s how it works. A man in England has sworn off cleaning his ears with cotton swabs after developing a potentially life-threatening infection that not only affected his hearing, but also ...

A healthy 31-year-old man developed an infection in the lining of his brain because part of a cotton swab had unknowingly become lodged in his ear, according to a case report. The man ...