hi everybody my name is Rhys Barber I'm the audiologist here at audiology
associates thank you very much watching our video today if you've never come
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shall see you at the end so we have an ear wax removal video for you today guys
you can see there's quite a large piece of hardened up ear wax in this ear canal
so what we're going to do first always pour a little bit of olive oil in here I
find it helps sometimes with the suction especially the harder and larger pieces
to help them to slide across the ear canal very well you can see I've done some
probing with this just at the start here with a standard-sized zoellner tubes you
can see just how tough this layer of ear wax is here we use a spray olive oil which
we find really useful so if you're interested in that I'll put a link to
where you can get that from in the description below but it's not going to
budge so we're going to use a jobson horne you were pushing into it
just trying to get a bit of a grip on this ear wax you can see it's it's tough and
on the outside but the centre there is a little bit softer so we're just trying
to get a good grip on it but you can see this is just on the crumble underneath
the jobson horn just pulling forward we're hoping that because the outer
section is is quite tough sometimes as you get a grip into the centre that's
softer as you pull forwards then the outer shell keeps it in one piece and
moves it forward but unfortunately that's not happening in this case it's
really crumbling much darker ear wax also in the centre of years of very different
colours it's difficult when the ear wax that's crumbling like this because it's
it's hard to get a good grip to try and to obviously we we like to get out in one
piece if we can but sometimes the the actual nature of the ear wax makes it very
difficult to do I'm just pulling the ear wax away from the the ear canal wall you saw the
start how big a piece this was I'm hoping if we can loosen it
from the sides we might be able get a bigger chunk away so a lot of this as
we're taking that was actually dropping into the bowl of the ear at the moment
so we're not stopping they're gonna take that out we'll clear it all up with a
bit of suction I'll go picking it up with the Jobson horn in a second see
just so tough there's as much pressure as you're putting on that Jobson horn
it's uh it's just not budging and as tempting is it would be to really dig
into it and bring it forward you know when you're using the jobson
horne you've got to think that this piece of ear wax is large enough it's filling the
ear canal any pressure I put on to the top of that ear wax he's gonna push the bottom
section of ear wax down and onto the ear canal walls which is uncomfortable for the
patient so we can't just go in there and really come lots of people see I'll just
just really dig into it and bring that one piece it's really uncomfortable if
you try and do that so it's it's a case of trying to ease it out to the ear canal
that's where the reason we put some of the olive oil in to soften this up as
well it just helps if we can if we can just
maneuver this out in smaller pieces I'd much rather do that than go in there and
really sort of go at it with a piece of ear wax and it it caused a patient at a
discomfort you can see just how much pressure I'm having to put on just just
to take a little smaller pieces of well there it's also being very gentle here
because we are quite deep in the ear canal I haven't switched to the suction
because this ear wax is still just so tough that the suction just wouldn't get a
grip on it so I put a little bit more of that spray olive oil in there just to
loosen around the edges which helps this the ear wax to something slide you can just
see you again a bit of movement to the ear wax now the olive oils gone in again
there there you go so this is why we but digging into the centre and then bringing
it out in one piece there you go so you can see the eardrum there looking nice
and healthy and these are the pieces removed so you
can see this in quite large pieces here or some of the especially the bigger
chunk of the end there so all I came out of the same ear
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