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human
Is the microbiome of one ear significantly different from the other?

Sometimes I'm guilty of using q-tips. Is there every a chance of cross contamination between ears?
gpt
Medical literature cites a case of a person who only got repeated ear infections in one ear. The infections stopped after the patient took ear wax from their other ear and put it in the ear prone to infection.

There is also such thing as ear wax transplants for people who are prone to ear infections. They take wax from healthy people and transplant it into ears of people prone to infection.

However all these cases seem to indicate that cross contamination of ear biome can be beneficial not harmful. Of course these are all cases of taking "good" earwax and placing it in a biome that is causing problems.

So the question is: do either of your ears have problems? Make sure to always use the cue tip in your good ear first? :)