The Q-Tip Conspiracy, or How a French Canadian Met the Reaper
I don’t use Q-tips. I always thought that made me weird. As it turns out, maybe it saved my life. That is if I was stupid enough to jam cotton swabs into my ear canals up to the hilt.
From CBCNews here:
The Quebec coroner’s office says cotton swab manufacturers should warn consumers about putting their product in their ears after a man died from related complications.
In a report released Tuesday, Quebec coroner Dr. Jacques Ramsay said using a cotton swab even once to clean inside ears can lead to fatal consequences.
Ramsay investigated the death of Montreal resident Daniel St-Pierre, who died in March 2007, two days after he accidentally pierced his eardrum with a cotton swab.
St-Pierre, 43, died of meningitis-induced intracranial complications caused by a bacterial ear infection that he developed after accidentally piercing his eardrum with a cotton swab while trying to treat a painful earache.
The best way to clean inside one’s ear is with the little finger, he said.
Oh, I thought it was the Car Key or the Paper Clip.
this just happened to me this morning and tomorrow Im going to the doctor