Health Check: is it bad to regularly sleep wearing earplugs?
- Written by Dominic Peter Power, Honorary, Audiology and Speech Pathology, University of Melbourne
“Never put anything smaller than your elbow into your ear” is something we’ve been wisely cautioned against at some stage or another. But more of us are ignoring this advice.
We use in-the-ear-headphones to listen to music, car keys and hair pins to scratch that particularly unpleasant itch, and hearing aids to enable better...