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Should I Worry For The Little Blood From Ear While Cleaning Using Buds And Muffled Hearing ?
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i hope you can help me, i was cleaning my ear out with a cotton bud as i have sensative ears so anything in them really annoys them, anyway i slipped with the cotton bud as i got made jump and there has been a little bit of blood, my ear hurts a but and i can hear and others can hear air coming out of my ear, also muffeled hearing? any idea what this could be please?
i hope you can help me, i was cleaning my ear out with a cotton bud as i have sensative ears so anything in them really annoys them, anyway i slipped with the cotton bud as i got made jump and there has been a little bit of blood, my ear hurts a but and i can hear and others can hear air coming out of my ear, also muffeled hearing? any idea what this could be please?
Mon, 6 Jan 2014
hello. it is likely you have damaged the skin of the ear canal or the ear drum . please meet your ENT doctor for examination and further advice. thanks. meanwhile, please dont use ear buds!!.
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