My 8 year old son came in from playing earlier and said he felt like he had something in his ear. I didn t realize until after the fact, but he had used a cotton swab to try and clean it out. His ear is now leaking some blood . It will stop and then he will get up to play and there will be more blood. I now have him lying on our couch and the bleeding seems to have ceased. He says it doesn t hurt, just feels a little weird.