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...Soon I received a call from Steve Milton, Unilever's v.p. of communication. He told me that Q-Tips weren't meant to be put inside the ear, and are often used "for bits of household cleaning and to take off makeup," though later, under my intense questioning, he admitted that "the majority are used for cleaning small orifices in and around the head," which is clearly newspeak for ears. When I asked if he himself put the anvil maimers into his ears, he paused for a long time and finally said, "Well, I don't really have a rummage...
White does not know what caused her hearing loss. The likely factors: heredity (her 87-year-old mother is also hearing impaired), cumulative exposure to environmental noise or simply the gradual deterioration of her ears owing to aging--a condition known as presbycusis. Like more than 80% of hearing-impaired people, White cannot be treated medically or surgically because the damage to her ears is sensorineural. That means some of the 30,000 to 50,000 hair cells in the inner ear, which are responsible for transmitting sound information to the auditory nerve, have been injured or destroyed, leaving...
Much attention has been paid to improvements in miniaturization. But smaller is not necessarily better. The tinier the aid, the more difficult it is to manipulate the controls and change the batteries. In addition, smaller aids--which fit in the ear, in the canal, or completely in the canal--simply can't pack the power of larger, behind-the-ear or body-aid models...
...purpose that any doctor in America will tell you is one of the most dangerous things you can do to your body from a standing position in the bathroom. Between 1992 and 1997, more than 100 people experienced a serious eardrum injury as a result of cleaning their ears with Q-Tips. Countless others came down with cases of tinnitus. And God only knows how many retrieved stuff that really grossed them out. We will never know the real numbers because the FDA no longer requires manufacturers to report swab malfunctions. Where is the outrage? Well, I am not afraid...
Soon I received a call from Steve Milton, Unilever's v.p. of communication. He told me that Q-Tips weren't meant to be put inside the ear, and are often used "for bits of household cleaning and to take off makeup," though later, under my intense questioning, he admitted that "the majority are used for cleaning small orifices in and around the head," which is clearly newspeak for ears. When I asked if he himself put the anvil maimers into his ears, he paused for a long time and finally said, "Well, I don't really have a rummage...