"Q-Tips"...and teenagers....adults too!

Daredevel7 said:
Sit down, little kiddies. Let me tell you a story.

A baby squirrel was born and he was named Ivan. At a several days old, he fell out of a nest and lost his mommie after a nasty storm. Luckily, two awesome women decided to take care of him and raise him to be old enough to be released back to the wild. He is fed with formula, not as good as mommie's milk, but good enough. He cannot pee on his own. Normally, the mother would repeatedly lick his wee in order to simulate him to pee. Otherwise, Ivan can get a rupture in his bladder. The two awesome foster mommies refuse to lick his wee, so they use Q tips to do the simulating. Ivan loves this activity.

The End.
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Totally makes sense. It's the same with other species. I had to do this with my 5-day old kitten rescue. But I used a washcloth or towel. Good job, DD.
 
My son has had issues with Q-tips, but he found her was twisting it in the ear and that's how the cotton came off. It's just basically twisted on there. My hubby and son has such a wax buildup, that they have to clean daily with gentle use of Q-tips, and we do a weekly or twice weekly with a wash that I got from a doctor years ago that leaves your ear clean as a whistle.

I gave the recipe here on AllDeaf quite a while ago and I'm not sure if I am remembering the right measurements, but it's something like 1 part water, 1 part alcohol and 1 part peroxide. The water dilutes, the peroxide cleans and bubbles and the alcohol aids in drying. Fill the ear, let it bubble away, drain and dry.
 
rockin'robin said:
Took my 17 yr old for another physical. He's on the wrestling team....He checked out well...until the doctor looked in his ear(s)....thought there was an excess of wax buildup..so the nurse came in to clean out his ears...

To find that he had a Q-tip embedded not into 1 ear, but both!...He had been complaining of headaches off and on, so I had his eyes checked also....then since he loves music and records a lot (his own songs)...he mentioned that he was "tone deaf." (HAHA)...

To make the story short...it took a while to get those Q-tips out of his ears...The nurse suggested I get Q-tips used on babies.....and when I got home, I threw out ALL the Q-tips....

I had many, many times showed my boys how to use Q-tips, and cautioned them NOT to stick them deeply into the ear.

So we both left the doctor's office in a very bad mood...he went back to school...and I asked him..."Can you hear me now"? in a very loud voice!....I couldn't undy why he didn't tell me the Q-tip had broken off in his ear(s)....the only reason was, he had been sticking it too deep....as "it felt good"!

Q-tips are dangerous if not used properly.
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I must confess that I have stuck Q-Tips in my ears and it's an enjoyable sensation! The cotton has never come off and remained in my ear, but it's satisfying when it comes out all green and covered in ear wax. It improves my hearing.
 
AJWSmith said:
I must confess that I have stuck Q-Tips in my ears and it's an enjoyable sensation! The cotton has never come off and remained in my ear, but it's satisfying when it comes out all green and covered in ear wax. It improves my hearing.
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GREEN?!!?!

Um...mine comes out more yellow-ish/orange-ish...

Who has the ear problem?
 
hubby and son's is orange to brown. Mine is yellow to orange.
 
Babyblue said:
:run: An alien from outer space!!
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:laugh2: :laugh2:...And for a minute there...I was thinking....somebody has nicotine in their ears!

As for the ear wash, I have some from Walgreens that I'll let them use maybe once a month. It's called Debrox, earwax removal aid.
 
The cotton buds are twisted a certain way. DO NOT twist in such a way as to unwind the bud! Always check the direction of the twist first and use only in that direction.
 
Crazy thread..


stimulating squirrels and ailens.

Wow!
 
Daredevel7 said:
Sit down, little kiddies. Let me tell you a story.

A baby squirrel was born and he was named Ivan. At a several days old, he fell out of a nest and lost his mommie after a nasty storm. Luckily, two awesome women decided to take care of him and raise him to be old enough to be released back to the wild. He is fed with formula, not as good as mommie's milk, but good enough. He cannot pee on his own. Normally, the mother would repeatedly lick his wee in order to simulate him to pee. Otherwise, Ivan can get a rupture in his bladder. The two awesome foster mommies refuse to lick his wee, so they use Q tips to do the simulating. Ivan loves this activity.

The End.
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:giggle: we do the same at work for baby squirrels that cannot use the bathroom on their own yet. We use cotton balls for baby kittens and puppies as well...
to the average person it looks like nasty sexually deviant behavior but it does have it's medical purpose although it looks as if you're masterbating the poor thing.

I had a litter of kittens many years ago that I had to hand raise that my aunt could no longer care for and it's nasty to have to do but needed.
 
:whistle:hm, hopefully I'm not the only one here but I LOVE to use Q tips in my ears just to scratch them since the hearing aid molds prevent them from drying out they itch like crazy.

It's literally an eargasm when I use the Q-tip on my ears and I rather enjoy it...er.
 
My ears are weird. I use q-tips in my right ear every 2 weeks and my left ear, forget it. All the wax is on my earmold. :lol: So warm inside my left ear and wax just melt. Always "wet" in my left ear b/c I wear my aid. Profound deaf in right ear.
 
Jaspheth said:
:whistle:hm, hopefully I'm not the only one here but I LOVE to use Q tips in my ears just to scratch them since the hearing aid molds prevent them from drying out they itch like crazy.

It's literally an eargasm when I use the Q-tip on my ears and I rather enjoy it...er.
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Yes, I agree. I DO NOT like dampness in my ears. If I wear my ipod ear buds or HAs too long, I can feel the wax moving around inside the canal. Ugh! I enjoy a good inner ear scratch too when the ears get itchy. But I'm very careful on how I do it.
 
I use Q-tips sometime to clean out my ears after shower. Cuz ear wax are softer and easier to swab out. I DO twisty twist Q-tips in my ear to allow cotton unwind a bit then swab it. I didn't have problems with it since I've been doing it for long time. I'm just being careful.

There are some kind of thick Q-tip used for makeup, I've tried that from my mother in law's bathroom out of curiously, IT Works better than ordinary Q-tip cuz I nearly got all wax out!

When I was young, my mom use Waterpik (Waterpik is well known to clean between teeth and massage gums) set to low and water tank filled with little hot water and I lean my ear toward to sink and she put tip near my ear and turn on then she "wiggle" the tips in circular motion. It sounded like jackhammer but it's so :giggle: "Squirrelly". Felt so good and thick black/brown earwax fell out to sink. My ears were clean as whistle :lol:

If Q-tip breaks off, Yes I have seen one, especially one that have PLASTIC sticks!!! AVOID AT ALL COST!! cuz cotton can come off after few twistie and also plastic tip can protrude through cotton and scratch skin of ear cause infection. Paper sticks are safer and cotton glued to stick hold strong.

Catty
 
My ENT said to never, ever, ever put those in your ears. They push wax and debris deep into the canal. It can lead to a pocket of the stuff being formed at the eardrum. This can lead to infection. This pocket can become even more clogged and eventually may form a cholesteatoma or chronic ear infection.

Think of the swab as the plunger for loading a cannon.

Clean with an approved method such as the debrox, sweet oil or the liquid that Kristina's doctor gave her. Wipe the outside of the ear dry and use a blow dryer on the lowest setting to dry the canal.
 
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