Man suffers brain lining infection after cleaning ear with cotton swab

A man was rushed to hospital with a brain infection five years after part of a cotton swab became lodged in his ear. An unusual case study in a British medical journal reported how a normally healthy 31-year-old was brought to an emergency department in Coventry, England, after collapsing and suffering seizures. The man had suffered ear pain and discharge on his left side in the previous ten days, progressing to headaches, nausea and vomiting in the days before he was hospitalized. “He had