03-04-2007, 10:58 PM
I clean my ears with q-tips all the time...
Being an avid shooter, I wear earplugs a lot, and they get grimey, and then the grime goes in my ears... hence the need for cleaning.
Rinse ears in shower.
And then use qtip in ear, GENTLY.... While you'e standing STILL. with no one else around that might jostle you into shoving it through your eardrum.
gentle twisting motion...
If you can HEAR the qtip against your eardrum... STOP.. you've gone in too deep
It might be over-paranoid on my part, but I never touch the end of the qtip before use.. the idea is to get stuff OUT of my ears, not shove germs IN my ear.
I agree in principle with being very VERY careful near your eardrum...
But for some of us, we DO kinda need to clean our ears out a little more agressively than the standard rinse... That requires something smaller than an elbow.
Being an avid shooter, I wear earplugs a lot, and they get grimey, and then the grime goes in my ears... hence the need for cleaning.
Rinse ears in shower.
And then use qtip in ear, GENTLY.... While you'e standing STILL. with no one else around that might jostle you into shoving it through your eardrum.
gentle twisting motion...
If you can HEAR the qtip against your eardrum... STOP.. you've gone in too deep
It might be over-paranoid on my part, but I never touch the end of the qtip before use.. the idea is to get stuff OUT of my ears, not shove germs IN my ear.
I agree in principle with being very VERY careful near your eardrum...
But for some of us, we DO kinda need to clean our ears out a little more agressively than the standard rinse... That requires something smaller than an elbow.