Cotten swabs aren't meant for cleaning your ear?

I CALL MADNESS! I use Cotten swabs everyday to clean my ears , and today I was told that Cotten swabs aren't meant for your ear. I guess my daddy has been teaching me wrong. IF they aren't meant for your ears, what are they meant for?

Swabs are for the ear. I have no idea what "swaps" are for:?Dracula68

They are for cleaning your ears and get DNA samples in the CSI showsTreflis

Sometimes at the same time ;)

They're for all sorts of things. I don't use them for ears though, a good blast under the shower head deals with thatEJ902

I don't use them to clean my ears as showers take care of that for me. I'm not sure of any other uses for them though. Hmmm.

the packaging says do not stick in ears for liability issues, but we all know thats what theyre really for.

the packaging says do not stick in ears for liability issues, but we all know thats what theyre really for.

IZoMBiEI

Really? Wow, I need to go check that out. :o

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the packaging says do not stick in ears for liability issues, but we all know thats what theyre really for.

TopStarRacer

Really? Wow, I need to go check that out. :o

My wife's a nursing assistant. She uses it usually when I accidentally hurt my self in some ridiculous fashion by dipping it in peroxide and putting it on a cut of some sort. I'm not clumsy, just not very careful...

I found them excellent for cleaning the inside of my computer.

I use them to clean my ears, then I feels good so I want to go deeper, but then i hurts so I just use it to itch all of the icthy parts of my ear.

I use them for taking off nail polish :P

You're not actually supposed to clean your ears with a swab because it just pushes some of the wax further into your ear. * According to a doctor I saw once.Theokhoth

I twist it around and move slowly inward. And stuff usually comes out.

You're not actually supposed to clean your ears with a swab because it just pushes some of the wax further into your ear.Theokhoth

i use em to clean parts o my paintball gun

haha

outer ear yes, inner ear, no.

a couple reasons,

first, yes you'll get some gunk out with it, but there's more where it came from, and your just compacting it and pushing it back by jamming a swab in your ear

second, it is possible to (and im sure people have done it) stick it in too far, causing damage to your hearing

third, the swab itself is actually very abrasive to the softer inner ear cannal flesh, and the resulting abrasions can lead to ear infections. (a quick side note on this one. if you jam the swab/q-tip in your ear, and spin/rotate. if you get that weird, kinda tickly feeling. stop doing it. that weird feeling is the inner ear getting chewed up. and nobody wants ear infections, right up there with sinus infections in the suck factor).

I use them for taking off nail polish :Pzeldaluff