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Cleaned eae with qtip and it was covered with blood?
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Do not do that: You probably scraped the ear canal but could have damaged the ear drum. Do not use q tips in the ear canal. As a rule of thumb: nothing smaller than your elbow in your ear. See your doctor to get the ear checked out.
Answered 8/5/2013
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