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Take our Fact or Fiction Quiz
Otolaryngology - Fact and Fiction
Test your knowledge of common ear, nose and throat disorders and their
treatment.
1. Cotton swabs are a safe and easy way to clean wax from inside your ears.
- Fact or
Fiction
2. Reading in a moving car can cause motion sickness
(make you "car sick").
- Fact or
Fiction
3. Hay fever is not caused by hay and does not cause
a fever.
- Fact or
Fiction
4. Tonsils and adenoids filter bacteria out of what
we swallow and breathe.
- Fact or
Fiction
5. A person can be trained or conditioned not to
snore.
- Fact or
Fiction
6. You can "toughen up" your ears by continued
exposure to loud noise.
- Fact or
Fiction
7. You should avoid speaking or singing when your
voice is hoarse.
- Fact or
Fiction
8. You don't have to go swimming to get "swimmer's
ear."
- Fact or
Fiction
© 2004 AAO-HNS/AAO-HNSF
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