You've probably used cotton swabs to clean your ears. Here's why ENTs say you shouldn't. (Getty Images) "Don’t put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear." It's the kind of thing you may have ...

Earwax (cerumen) protects the inside of your ears from irritation and infection. As the body makes new wax, the old earwax usually drains out of your ears naturally. Sometimes earwax can build up and ...

Cotton swabs “really weren’t made to clean your ears — all they do is just push the wax deeper down into your ear canal and this causes an impaction,” Dr. Tonia L. Farmer, who goes by Dr. Nose Best, ...

The ear is a marvelous, humble organ. It powers our hearing and also our balance, keeping us upright and connected to the world around us. In return, ear doctors tend to ask that we follow one very ...

A registered ear care nurse has warned of the dangers of unregulated earwax removal services, saying patients are being put ...