A man in England has sworn off cleaning his ears with cotton swabs after developing a potentially life-threatening infection that not only affected his hearing, but also spread to the lining of ...

A 37-year-old Australian mother of two is an example of cotton swab use gone awry when a bacterial infection ate through her skull. Five years of fiber build-up became infected .

Woman Who Cleaned Ear With Cotton Swab Left With 'Paper-thin' Skull From Bacterial Infection That Ate Away Bone Published Aug 12, 2019 at 4:18 AM EDT Updated Aug 13, 2019 at 12:00 PM EDT By ...

Talk about getting an earful.A British man had a "potentially life-threatening" bacterial infection in the lining of his skull after he used a cotton swab to clean his ear.A piece of the cotton ...

The 31-year-old man's troubles began when the tip of a cotton swab got stuck inside his ear canal, although he told doctors that he wasn't sure exactly how or when this happened.

The man developed a severe bacterial infection that started in his ear canal, ... "They can only cause problems," Charlton said, noting that cotton swabs have been linked to ear infections, ...

In 2017, a study found cotton swabs send an average of 34 children to the emergency room every day. More than a quarter million children were treated between 1990 and 2010 for swab-related ...