Cleaning your ears with earbuds may be really dangerous!

Our ENT surgeon already advised us not to use cotton buds , hair pins or any object to clean the ears. By doing so, we can by mistake cause some minor injury to our ear canal, leading to infections. But the story below can be an extreme case, but just want one to take precaution.

Whenever you feel your ears are dirty or slightly blocked, do you pick up a cotton swab and start digging into them to clean them? It is okay if you do because most people do the same and have been taught to do it since childhood. However, these innocent looking cotton swabs may actually be more dangerous than they let on.

According to a report published, a man in the UK has sworn to never touch an earbud again when he developed a life-threatening infection due to it. The publication reports that the tip of the cotton swab got stuck in the man's ear while cleaning it, something he did not even realise and led to the development of an infection in his skull.

The 31-year-old man was rushed to the hospital emergency room when he had a seizure and collapsed. In ten days that finally led to the seizure, the man had complained of pain in his left ear and a discharge that was coming out of it. He also experienced severe headaches, vomits, and even started to forget people's names.

The man previously had several treatments on his left ear due to infections and therefore did not take the problem much seriously, thinking it could be one of those. However, when the doctors scanned his brain and ear, they found inflammation with pus in the bones of his skull close to the left ear canal. The infection that had probably started in the ear canal had spread to his skull.

The doctors had to perform minor surgery to treat the problem and that is when they found the tip of the cotton swab covered in ear wax and debris and concluded that this could have aggravated the problem and even led to the spread of the infection.

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