Years ago, my mother complained about a terrible earache. The pain was unbearable, and it wouldn't go away. For a week, she walked around with a debilitating ringing in her head. Eventually, she ...

Ear wax is one of life’s grimmest annoyances. But it’s nothing a good clean with a cotton bud can’t sort, right? Wrong. Because new research reveals that using cotton buds in your ears can lead to ...

You may have heard the warning never to put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear, or shuddered at the story of a friend’s friend who ruptured her eardrum with a cotton bud. While eardrum ...

The graphic clip shows a doctor working to dislodge a trapped bud from deep inside his patient's ear IF you've ever used cotton buds to give your ears a good clean, then you're sure to be repulsed by ...

Stomach churning footage shows the moment an ear bud is removed after being left in someone's ear for 10 years. The video, which was taken at the Hear Clinic in Oadby, Leicestershire, shows forceps ...

Footage of a procedure which involved the extraction of a lodged cotton bud was recently shared by UK-based consultant audiologist, Neel Raithatha. Mr Raithatha, who is more famously known as The Wax ...