Keep Your Ears Healthy – Clean Your Earplugs and Earbuds
Keep Your Ears Healthy – Clean Your Earplugs and Earbuds Have you ever taken out your headphones and they are completely covered in earwax? Have you put them back in your ear a day later, after they were on the floor of your bedroom, with that same dried earwax sitting on it? We all do it. We use our headphones everyday without giving a second thought to where they have been or what bacteria might be on them. The same is true for earplugs made from silicone and polymer, that we often use for flying, swimming, or even sleeping. Everyone does it—so what's the problem with this? clean your earbuds and earplugs Just like when you lick your fingers, all of the germs on your hands go into your mouth and into your body. The same is true for earbuds. The moment you insert them into your ear (learn here how to do it properly) you are introducing into your body all the germs that your earbuds have touched. This can cause serious infections that could be damaging to the ear if l...