hi everybody my name is rhys barber i'm
the audiologist here at audiology
associates
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today
you can see this patient has some very
deep
thick sticky ear wax it's actually going
right down on top of the eardrum so
this poor lady's been feeling really
blocked up since uh just the start of
the new ear since christmas new ear
time
um does a lot of swimming felt blocked
up after coming out the pool one day
let's try everything to unblock this and
you can see it's really really thick
sticky stuff so uh has been put a bit of
oil in here
i think there's been some sodium bicarb
going in here as well so everything got
in here to try and loosen this up
come through today to try and get it out
and what you can see is that we're
getting a grip on this with a suction
but it's
really thick hardened up sticky ear wax so i
think this this problem's probably been
going on for a little while but
uh where the water's been going it's
just been helping to
shift it along and create gaps to allow
the sound through
really trying to pull this down at the
moment trying to hold on to it with the
uh
with the sort of micro section to to get
a really good grip on here
starting to wiggle it back and forth
very sticky and very thick stuff it's
always awkward when it's
deeper in the ear canal like this
you may have noticed that we are coming
up to episode 300
soon so we have got a couple of little
things that we're thinking about trying
to do
it's whether or not we could actually
get them to go you may have seen 300
plus
one day uh the reason it's 300 plus one
day 300 will go out on its normal day
um but we've got something else planned
for the day after
i couldn't do it on the same day because
it is my lovely sister-in-law's birthday
on that day so i couldn't do it in the
evening but
we're going to do it on a saturday
instead so uh
stay tuned for that one there will be
some more information coming through on
social media so check out facebook check
out the youtube community page we do
lots on the community page so keep your
eyes on that one
uh and good news i've also ordered some
more rulers they have arrived today
i'm gonna send you a picture of those
because i made a bit of a mistake where
they ordered them but uh yeah i'll keep
you posted on that one as well
so uh you can see we've introduced a
little bit of olive oil in here to try
and uh loosen this ear wax away from the
ear canal wall
the main reason i'm doing this is
because the ear wax is so sticky the olive
oil forms a barrier against the skin
so as we lift the ear wax away it doesn't
then automatically stick to the opposing
ear canal wall
so it does help to loosen it off you can
see how stretchy this is it's coming
away here
there we are so it's all slowly working
its way out
trying to hold the section on that top
section
this last piece here is really really
firmly wedged in
it's um it's due to the fact that this
patient does a lot of swimming so they
have got
a certain degree of swimmers here you've
got this little lump on this left
hand ear canal wall now what's happened with
the ear wax is it's gone that deep
that it's actually dried behind that
bump so as i'm trying to pull it
forwards
uh what's happening is that the the bump
is actually holding it in place i can't
pull it past that that section
so at the moment i'm just probing
different areas of the ear wax to try and
see if we can
loosen it enough to be able to get this
away
here we go just starting to see this
slowly breaking down now we can just get
our first glimpse of the eardrum
you'll see you've obviously got the ear wax
there at the base top right hand corner
the
suction tube's blocking the view a
minute but the top right hand corner
you'll actually see a grayish tinge
that's the eardrum sitting behind you
can see it this is all been impacted
down on top of the eardrum
um all together not an easy one to do
because of its position you can see that
ridge to the left hand side there you
can see that see the
ear canal has gone more sort of
elongated more of an oval shape
and that's that uh restriction to the
ear canal bit further in
uh olive oil's gone back in again this
accounts for why the the screens got a
little bit blurry at the moment so
we'll just clean that off and go back in
it's always difficult when you have
olive oil sprayed around here i've put a
good dose of olive oil in here as well
because this ear wax is sticky it's going to
be adhering to the eardrum
okay at the back so i'm going to have to
be really
really gentle with this and just hold
the suction
just away from the ear wax ever so slightly
you can see it's starting to pull into
the
end of the section there i've got such a
good grip on this at the moment there is
a little bit of blurring but i'm
i've got such a good grip i don't want
to lose that
here we don't see it all getting sucked
into the end of the suction machine got
a grip on the ender there we go so
that's whole thing's
just peeled away from the eardrum
sliding this down the ear canal
and when we take a good look in there
you can actually see where the the ear wax
was
stuck see all that to the right hand
side where it was stuck to the to the
actual drum itself
so this is the patient's second ear uh
not as blocked up on this side but there
was a piece in there we don't want the
same thing to happen on this side as
well so we're just going to remove this
section
much much easier removal you can see
it's much closer to the outer part of
the ear canal
it's coming away from the ear canal walls
really nicely
and if we lift it this has just slowing
it down you'll see the whole thing peels
away
there we go and jumps towards the
suction there as well
there we are lovely and
we can start to see the drum there at
the top so we're just going to take a
little lump at the bottom there
there's the eardrum there quite a
pronounced you know you can actually see
the tip of the malleus there
so this is what we moved uh sorry this
was still the time of the misplaced
ruler so you can see there's no
measurements on here
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