Cotton tip applicators are sending 34 kids to the emergency department each day
Monday, May 8, 2017 - 10:52
in Health & Medicine
Researchers found that over a 21-year period from 1990 through 2010, an estimated 263,000 children younger than 18 years of age were treated in US hospital emergency departments for cotton tip applicator related ear injuries -- that's about 12,500 annually, or about 34 injuries every day.