YSK: IF you have a habit of cleaning your ear canals with…
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YSK: IF you have a habit of cleaning your ear canals with Q-tips, as a result your ears will likely start producing more wax if you don't pay attention to one thing
Disclaimer: cleaning your ears with Q tips is probably not recommended full stop, and you should be extremely careful when doing so. Especially for your children.
**If** you take a **dry** Q tip into your ear canal and drag it across the tissue inside, if there is enough friction produced, it will irritate the delicate tissue to the point where it starts producing a substantially higher amount of ear wax to protect itself from further invasion.
**Make sure you at least wet the Q tip if you do it**. But my recommendation is to find a different way to clean your ear canals altogether (if at all).
*Why YSK: Personal anecdote: I fell into this strange loop where I irritated my ear canals with a Q tip ONCE. It started producing an insane amount wax, so I had to keep cleaning my ear canals even more often. The rubber tips of my AirPods are almost always brown now. It's disgusting. And it is dialling back very very slowly.*
The aim of this YSK is to help you pay attention to whether you and your ears are in the wax loop. For many, this is obvious, but it wasn't for me.
#education
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Disclaimer: cleaning your ears with Q tips is probably not recommended full stop, and you should be extremely careful when doing so. Especially for your children.
**If** you take a **dry** Q tip into your ear canal and drag it across the tissue inside, if there is enough friction produced, it will irritate the delicate tissue to the point where it starts producing a substantially higher amount of ear wax to protect itself from further invasion.
**Make sure you at least wet the Q tip if you do it**. But my recommendation is to find a different way to clean your ear canals altogether (if at all).
*Why YSK: Personal anecdote: I fell into this strange loop where I irritated my ear canals with a Q tip ONCE. It started producing an insane amount wax, so I had to keep cleaning my ear canals even more often. The rubber tips of my AirPods are almost always brown now. It's disgusting. And it is dialling back very very slowly.*
The aim of this YSK is to help you pay attention to whether you and your ears are in the wax loop. For many, this is obvious, but it wasn't for me.
#education
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