This Is Why You Cough When You Put Something In Your Ear
(World News Science)

Not putting things in your ear is a good rule to live by. That includes Q-tips, wax removal tools and ear candles - which, we know, don´t technically go inside the ear canal but they can release wax that does. Ear candles don`t, by the way. Indeed, the American Academy of Otolaryngology`s advice is to avoid putting anything smaller than your elbow in there unless you want to risk hearing loss or a perforated eardrum. Though how exactly you´d get anything bigger in there is anyone´s guess. A less well-known side effect of sticking things in your ear is an automatic coughing reflex - nicknamed `Arnold´s ear-cough reflex` after the man who first described it, Friedrich Arnold, a 19th-century...