Please, Get That Out Of My Ear!

  Have you ever heard the stories of stuff found in people’s and and animals ears?  Let’s talk a  little about what can be found shall we?  Sure we all use Q tips (free advertisement for Q tips) or we should because you never know when you may find a little intruder.  Take this for example:

What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy’s ear — “like Rice Krispies” — ended up as an earache, and the doctor’s diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.

“They were walking on my eardrums,” Jesse Courtney said.  One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader’s left ear canal. His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear — “like Rice Krispies.”

 What is the ears protection? Ear wax, sticky stuff that it is, traps anything foreign that flies, crawls, or is blown into the ear canals. Dirt, tiny bits of plant material, small insects, bacteria, and so forth are immobilized by wax. Think of wax as the sticky stuff on a No Pest Strip. The primary purpose of ear wax is to protect your ear canal and ear drum from such foreign materials. 
  Jerome Bartens, an 11 year old boy, was diagnosed deaf as a 2 year old boy. He pulled out a cotton wool bud and now he can hear. Why didn’t a doctor see that is beyond me.
  Now what have we learned today? Go to sleep wearing ear plugs!