Recently cases of earwax plugs are very often in Armenians, and one of the main reason for this is the new fashion to clean the ears daily with cotton swabs. This point of view is shared by otolaryngologist, head of ENT service in medical center "ARTMED" doctor Ara Gharibyan.

«Our people have become kind of ostentatious neat – every day they poke these swabs into their ears», he said in his interview to NEWS.am Medicine.

Several years ago, when there were no cotton swabs, said the doctor, our grandmothers wound cotton on the match and cleaned their grandchildren's ears, but they were doing this procedure only once in two or three months, the rest of the time they just dried the ears after bath with towel.

«Frequent uses of cotton swabs irritate the skin.Earwax plug is not a mud, it is a substance produced by the skin of the external auditory canal.The more often we use cotton swabs, the more irritated the skin ear passage is, and more sulfur is produced, which blocks the ear», said the doctor.Earwax plugs are cleaned by washing away, but to avoid this procedure, doctor Gharibyan advises not be so "neat" in this issue and follow the example of our grandmothers.