can you go deaf from putting a q-tip too far into your ear drum ?
399027
You can damage your ear drum that will try to heal itself but if you have made severe damage you can loose your hearing until it is corrected by surgery or a in office visit with a ear,nose, throat doctor
98552
Be honest, they will find out eventually anyway, then you are screwed. Practice, practice, practice. Establish your priorities, if drumming is last, you will never do it.
96509
What? hahaha.. NO. It may cause your eardrum to be irritated, but it cannot in any way cause brain damage. Please slap whoever told you that!
870680
DO NOT USE A Q-TIP!!!!  If you have something stuck in your ear the q-tip may push it down further.  Try rinsing your ears out with 1/2 hydrogen peroxide and 1/2 warm water, not hot.  Then immediately after, because it will bubble in your ears, get in the shower and let the water rinse out your ear canals.  If that doesn't help, there are ear drops at the pharmacy (over the counter) that are supposed to loosen clogged ear wax so you can rinse it out.  But this takes a few days.  Best thing to do is to see your doctor and have him/her look inside your ear canals.  If they are clogged, he/she can clean them out.  There could be another problem going on.  This is your hearing so its best not to mess around with it.
272999
A doctor can fix it by flushing it(irrigation i think). Feels alot better the next day. Sometimes it is just caused from using qtips believe it or not you should never place them in the ear..go figure..hope this helps you out.
792518
Sorry to tell you this, but I bet your eardrums are just fine. Noise-induced hearing loss is permanent due to nerve damage in the cochlea. Prevent further damage by turning down the volume. If you can feel the bass, it's too loud. Stop using your ipod or walkman, and wear earplugs if you go to a concert or work in a noisy environment. You will still be able to hear the music at a concert if you do this, as well as prevent further damage.
754126
qtips are safe as long as you do not insert them into the ear canal.\n\nmy aunt is a nurse and she says to use hydrogen peroxide. while you are in the shower just dump a cap ful into your ear. it will feel funny, but it will dissolve the ear wax. \n\nanother option is to go see your doctor and they will clean your ears with a warm water bath
892300
Take a decongestant to start off with. Try to take them for a day or so to see if it help clear it out. As for the popping, you could try buying one of the ear canal cleaning kits to get everything out of there. The qtips just push it farther in and can also cause damage to your ear drum. The wax is supposed to naturally work its way out.  That said, I still use qtips, but I only clean around the very outer part of the ear canal and very carefully at that. If you feel any pain or the popping continues, see a doctor.
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A) isn't likely to be correct unless the person was deafened by the sound. For a person with undamaged hearing there is no "too large" an amplitude for hearing the sound. The sound could be too loud to make any sense of it, but that's another issue.\nB) is plausible. Most humans hear up to about 20 kHz when young, and this cutoff frequency becomes lower with age and/or cochlear damage.\nC) is the most interesting possibility. The sound would be inaudible if only transverse waves reached a sensing point of zero size, but such a point couldn't have a directional characteristic so it would also receive longitudinal (compression) waves. A finite-sized sensing area consisting of a flat flexible membrane with one-sided exposure to the air (like the eardrum) could be positioned parallel to the direction of propagation and compression. Then it would be swept by transverse waves, and pressure differences would travel across its outside surface and be transmitted into the inside space (middle ear) and heard. (Note this would not be true for a flat two-sided sensing area, which would have canceling pressure differences on the other side.) In addition, the external ear directs the sound toward the eardrum so longitudinal waves reach it. So C is ruled out.
697576
the ear actually hurts if the sound "intensity" is greater than 120 decibels
191230
Actually, yes it can be dangerous. Holding in a sneeze can force bacteria into your ear, and can even cause your eardrum to rupture. In addition, it can cause chest pain, and stress on the throat. In other words, if you have to sneeze, let it out! In class you might want to sneeze (or cough) into the bend of your elbow. It's the best place. Coughing or sneezing into your hand spreads germs.
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This question can't answered until you find out what has caused it.  The condition is called Tinnitus, and it is usually permanent, and nearly untreatable.  It is also usually progressive, meaning that it gets worse as you get older.  It is caused by the sensor hairs being permanently bent over in the cochlear section of the inner ear, or by nerve damage. See an audiologist, fast.  It can be brought on, or aggravated, by certain medications.  Ibuprofen and antibiotics make mine worse.  But the most important thing to know is; recognize if you are causing the damage yourself.  Do you work with power tools?  Shoot guns?  Play your stereo way too loud / in the clubs regularly or jam with the band unprotected?  If yes to any of these, then it is you that is causing the damage, and it will only get worse.  People have committed suicide because the noise drove them mad.  So; to sum up, get checked out, and take a close look at your habits.  Damage can occur in thousandths of a second, and once done, there is NOTHING that can be done to repair or heal it.
750500
Clean your ears with Q-Tips you can also pour a little bit of peroxide in your ear to help it.
129300
It can permanently damage your hearing if you listen to very loud music.  If your ears are ringing afterwards, you should tone it down a little.
25361
No they donot.\n\nUsing headphones at a sufficiently high volume level causes temporary or permanent hearing impairment or deafness. Other risks arise from the reduced awareness of external sounds — some jurisdictions regulate the use of headphones while driving vehicles. Also, most European countries have imposed high penalties since 2002 on drivers not using a headset while operating a mobile phone in a car, to ensure that drivers keep their hands on the vehicle's controls.\n\nusing them for a long time might cause bacterial growth in the ears
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I had that happen and the med tech packed it with gauze until I was able to get into the doctor. They told me NOT to introduce anything into it - no peroxide or anything but wait to be seen. The specialist told me that the secretions in your ears naturally kill bacteria and you don;t want to mess with throwing off the balance by killing it with alcohol or peroxide.\n\nI remember it hurt like the dickens...I had a concussion on top of it and vertigo...hope you have some good pain killers and a soft heating pad! Be well!
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Think I'd check with ear specialist.  I can't fly without taking certain meds so that I don't perforate my ear drum.