It is observed that many people try to clean their ears with matchsticks, fingers and pen which are quite dangerous for the soft tissues of our ear, especially for our ear drums.
[junkie-alert style=”green”] Doctors faced several cases where people damaged their ear drums while they were trying to clean the wax from their ears. Ear should only be cleaned using cotton buds because they are designed and manufactured for this purpose rather than matchsticks which are not meant for wax cleaning. [/junkie-alert]
Recently an Indian man was forced to visit hospital after matchstick broke into his ear while he was cleaning wax. He was unable to remove it which caused itching and then within 12 hours it become unbearable pain.
Doctor Krunal Karade who is a head and neck specialist (ENT) removed the matchstick by otoendoscopic. He uploaded the video on YouTube which was watched by thousands of times.