In Reply to: Clean your ears! posted by Christine Tham on April 26, 2007 at 17:54:28:
Ears are extremely sensitive instruments and pushing or scraping anything into them is a high risk adventure: a rupture can result not only from the tool but from forcing material against inner ear "components."
Keeping a saline atmosphere inside the ears, which drain into sinuses, may not be a wonderful idea, either.
I know you were trying to be helpful but...
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Follow Ups
- You really shouldn't dispense medical suggestions unless you're an MD. - tinear 14:57:48 04/27/07 (2)
- My recommendations will not work on anyone with "tin ears" :-) (nt) - Christine Tham 15:45:03 04/27/07 (1)
- Touché! nt - tinear 05:19:20 04/28/07 (0)