A swab comprises a support structure, a first cap and a second cap. The support structure has a first end, a central portion and a second end. The first cap has a first cap end and a first open end, wherein the first cap end includes a first end outer surface, a first end inner surface and a first plurality of protrusions protruding from the first end outer surface. The second cap has a second cap end and a second open end, wherein the second cap end includes a second end outer surface and a second end inner surface. The support structure is insertable into the first open end such that the first end contacts the first end inner surface and is insertable into the second open end such that the second end contacts the second end inner surface.

A disposable speculum for an otoscope provides an attached forward-facing pressure sensitive adhesive for adhering to and extracting foreign bodies from the ear canal. Attaching the pressure sensitive adhesive to the speculum permits improved control, visualization, and reduced contamination of the pressure sensitive adhesive.

An ear cleaning device is provided for removing debris from an ear. In one form, the ear cleaning device includes a shaft, a head connected to the shaft, and a contiguous pocket structure of the head. The contiguous pocket structure includes a plurality of pockets that may be configured to receive debris. In another form, the ear cleaning device has a handle, a bulbous cleaner connected to the handle, and a solid inner core of the bulbous cleaner. The bulbous cleaner has two or more spaced, longitudinal walls disposed outward of the inner core that are configured to remove debris with turning of the ear cleaning device about a longitudinal axis of the device.

Guards for a space access device are configured to be attached to, as well as removed from the space access device by hand, without the need to resort to any tools to perform the attachment or the removal. A distal guard includes at least first and second filters separated by at least one convoluted pathway, and also includes outwardly extending members projecting outwardly from a base of the distal guard. A proximal guard forms at least one convoluted pathway with a cap forming a proximal end of the space access device. A pull tab provides redundancy against failure. The pull tab may be incorporated into the distal guard.

An ear cleaning device comprising a fluid dispenser in communication with a hollow cleaning body. The hollow cleaning body is elongated according to a relative longitudinal axis. The cleaning body includes an insertion portion configured to assume a resting configuration in which it is at least partially insertable into the ear canal of an ear, and an expanded configuration in which it has an increased volume due to expansion by fluid provided by the fluid dispenser. The insertion portion includes a plurality of lobes which are elongated according to the longitudinal axis and form convex portions towards the outside of the insertion portion. The insertion portion also includes connecting walls between the lobes which are developed according to the longitudinal axis forming grooves between the lobes.

A device (1) for cleaning the external auditory canal, which device (1) includes a guide sleeve (30), with a proximal outlet portion (31) for partial insertion into the auditory canal, and an instrumentation rod (10) that can be guided axially through the guide sleeve (30). At a proximal end region, the instrumentation rod (10) has a cleaner (20) with at least one circumferentially extending cleaning element (21) which is elastically expandable in a radial direction. An internal cross section of the proximal outlet portion (31) is smaller than an external cross section of the cleaning element (21) in a radially expanded state. The cleaning element (21) can be arranged inside the proximal outlet portion (31) in a radially compressed state in which the cleaning element (21) is bent in the distal direction towards the longitudinal axis of the instrumentation rod (10), such that the cleaning element (21), on emerging from the proximal outlet portion (31), straightens up in the proximal direction into the radially expanded state. A method for cleaning the external auditory canal using such a device (1) is also provided.

The present disclosure provides for an ear cleaning device comprising an integral body, and a central handle portion of the integral body that supports a first whisk-like bulbous end, with the first whisk-like bulbous end being integral with the central handle portion. The first whisk-like bulbous end further comprises flexible intertwined wire-like loops used in the removal of ear was or debris. The first whisk-like bulbous end being of a size that averts insertion thereof to an ear canal.

Disclosed is an earwax removal apparatus comprising a head portion moving from the inside to the outside of a wax pocket and moving from the outside to the inside of the wax pocket; and a remover removably mounted inside the wax pocket and dislodging earwax from the tip of a scrubbing head of the head portion and allowing it to fall into the interior of the wax pocket. The earwax removal apparatus may further comprise a dry-only head mountable on the earwax removal apparatus and capable of entering an ear canal and blowing air directly onto the walls of the ear canal. The earwax removal apparatus may further comprise an oily earwax removal portion configured to remove oily earwax by injecting hydrogen peroxide into the ear canal through a spray hole of the scrubbing head of the head portion.

It is disclosed a Q-tip which includes rolled up soft paper sheets, divided at one or two ends to a plurality of strips such as to form one or two respective brushes, and sticker or wire for gripping the rolled up soft paper sheets at a certain distance from the one or more brushes. The Q-tip includes one to four rolled up soft paper sheets. A method for providing a Q-tip may include providing soft paper sheets, dividing the soft paper sheets at two opposite ends to a plurality of strips, rolling up the soft paper sheets such as to form two brushes and a cylindrical part having an axis in parallel to the dividing direction, and gripping the soft paper sheets at the cylindrical part. The strips maybe of a substantially same width in the range of 7-8 mm, and a length in the range of 20-30 mm. A length of a soft paper sheet in the dividing direction is in the range of 95-105 mm and its width is in the range of 85-95 mm. Each brush may have 30-75 strips.

The present disclosure provides for an ear cleaning device comprising an integral body, a central handle portion of the integral body that supports a first whisk-like bulbous end. The first whisk-like bulbous end is integral with the central handle portion and comprises flexible intertwined wire-like loops used in the removal of ear wax debris. The first whisk-like bulbous end is of a size that averts insertion thereof to an ear canel.