Nagal and colleagues again raise ENT surgeons’ concerns about the use of cotton-buds in the ear canal.1
As a GP I have always counselled against the use of cotton buds in this way. However I have comparatively rarely seen complications.
If 68% of the population are using cotton-buds in the ear it seems that complications of this practice, as a proportion of the number of times it is performed, must be very rare. Are we worrying too much?
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