ears
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Listen Up: Wearing Earphones All Day Is No Good
Wireless earphone sales are booming, with Apple alone selling an estimated 100 million sets of AirPods in 2020. Being untethered from our phones or devices means we are likely to wear earphones for longer periods. As a result, you might notice your ears feeling more sticky or waxy. Is this common? And what happens to…
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How I Tried To Sell The ‘Healing’ Crystals In My Ears
If you’ve ever been dizzy without a cause — no alcohol in your system, no blunt trauma to the head, no ear infection — you may have experienced benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. It’s a common condition: approximately 10 per cent of people will experience BPPV before they die.
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Man Says Dying Roach Left Eggs In His Ear: ‘I Heard It Die In My Head’
A Florida man was reportedly struggling with a roach infestation at his apartment earlier this month when he realised the problem had migrated to his ear canal. And this is your last chance to stop reading before you have to live with this knowledge for the rest of your life.
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Doctors: Seriously, Stop Sticking Cotton Buds In Your Ears
I tingle just thinking about the full-body sensation accompanying a cotton bud exploring the inside of my ear canal. But the guilt-ridden pleasure is always followed by a nagging mother whisper: “Don’t put anything smaller than your elbow into your ear!” Well, scientists have decided to amplify that whisper.