What about that old adage; "When cleaning out your own ear canal, never put anything smaller than an elbow in it"?

I have a friends mother with 2 perforated ear drums because the dummy doing it figured it was safe to flush them out with hydrgen proxide but didn't realize that the squeeze bulb she was using was not supposed to be in the ear canal or that it should be gentlely pressed when flushing ears and as a consequense thereof, she perforated both ear drums by flushing with the tip in the ear canal and putting way too much force on the bulb.

Be careful with the ears!

Bountyhunter