A boy who has been partially deaf for nine years was suddenly cured - when a cotton wool bud popped out of his ear. Jerome Bartens was diagnosed as deaf in his right ear when he was just two and has struggled at school ever since. [/p] But Jerome, now 11, was suddenly able to hear clearly again as he played with friends in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. [/p] He said he heard a popping sound, then found the tip of a cotton wool bud in his ear.
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WOW....that's amazing. It IS rather surprising a doctor wouldn't have picked up on that over all those years.
HUH? Speak up. I can't hear you.
This story in The Province today, Cotton swabs in ears can be deadly, coroner warns :
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I once heard this story where a girl was cleaning her ear with a q-tip, and the phone rang. She picked up the phone and put it against her ear... she left the q-tip hanging in. Puncured the eardrum.