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Is it a myth that one shouldn't use ear buds daily? If yes, then how frequent for people staying in polluted city like Mumbai?
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Yes actually we should not use ear buds daily. This may cause narrowing of ear canal in future.
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Dear , there is no need to use the ear buds to clean the ear. The soft wax collected on the outer part of our ear canal can be wiped or removed with soft cotton cloth.
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We should not use ear buds Bcz while using that one can push the wax deep inside the canal that will be more difficult to remove or one can also perforate the ear drum Bcz of improper assessment of depth of ear drum.So better to avoid using this.
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