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hi everybody this is Rhys Barber from audiology associates thank you very much
for watching our ear wax removal compilation video today so this patient
has come through with quite a large piece of ear wax a slight reduced
hearing a little bit of discomfort they have been using some olive oil in here
just to loosen this this chunk of ear wax up that's the liquid you can see around
the outside edge so we using the standard sized zoellner tube in here because
we can get a good grip on this with the Zoellner tube just slowly working this
out of the ear canal you can see quite a large chunk there a little bit of dry
ear wax falling into the bowl of the canal a
little bit of dry skin on the outer part of the ear canal here so just taking that
away you can see just removing the outer section here and there's the eardrum
looking nice and healthy so this is the same patient at the second ear so you
can see much more lumpy ear wax in here so lots of smaller segmented bits of
ear wax all nice and soft though so the patient's been using a little bit of
olive oil on this one as well which does help to soften the ear wax a little bit just
taking some of the outer sections away first because of this larger the pieces
of ear wax sometimes it's better and if it's lots of little pieces together it's
better to take this away in in order to take the outer section we first you can
work on what's behind it we've encountered a little bit of dry skin
there so that's coming away with this piece of ear wax and you can see just it's
all coming away in tiny tiny pieces just removing it piece by piece behind a bit
was just getting sucked into the into the zoellner tube there a little bit of
dry skin in here it's not uncommon to encounter dry skin as we get older we
don't produce as much oil in our ear canals which means that you do tend to
find the skin will dry a little bit so you get
these layers which you can see here almost like this peeling effect in the
ear canal wall sometimes and the ear wax can get all mingled in with it
just taking some away from the right side there you can see what that dry
skins just been holding the so the flake at the back of that piece of ear wax just
holding that in place and there's ear drum looking nice and healthy
this is what we removed so you can see lots of start with one large piece that
was from the first year all the little tiny pieces afterwards then were from
the second one so this is our second patient so this gentleman's come through
also again with very reduced hearing no pain or discomfort though with this gent
they've just noticed a little bit of reduction hearing they're so large piece
of ear wax caught right in the you know right in the outer section of the ear
canal this ear canal though is we start to
get a little bit of stenosis or a little bit of narrowing to the ear canal which also
happens as we get a little bit older sometimes which has caused this ear wax to
wedge in the outer section of the ear canal and dry out quite a bit so what you can
see here is some very dry skin sitting just underneath which we're trying to
remove first because it does tend to hold the ear wax in so just holding those on
the tube on this now just to get a really firm grip and what you can see is
as we're pulling the skin it's actually pulling some of the ear wax from deeper in
the ear canal as well there's such a narrow entrance to the ear canal that it's
getting a little bit stuck there and so you're trying to wiggle it up and down
just to break some pieces off just to make it a little bit smaller to fit out of
the gap
there we are Ive got a much better grip there so you just starting the word it's way out
it's quite happy and they just wanna come out here we are know we're starting
to see some movement - it can see it's got a long strip of dead skin there
that's been really just holding everything in place so it's been wrapped
around this piece of ear Wax like a little envelope around the outside of it
just really holding it all in and because the ear wax is stuck them dried
around that skin that's what makes it really tough to remove that this you can
see you just working that out now so it's on its way out you can see a long
strip of dry dead skin there there's the ear drum its all looking nice and healthy
so this is what we removed you can see just how long that bit of dry skin was
attached to the back end of the of the ear wax so quite a long so it really
anchoring that in place there so this is our last patient in this compilation so
this lady's come through again with reduced hearing has experienced a bit of
aching though in the year this time and down into the jaw which is quite a
common feature of ear wax especially when it's like this and completely blocked
the ear canal so just putting with a pressure on the ear canal walls now what you
can see is there would be a little bit of olive oil used in here as soon as the
suction hit that blockage did you see all the oil getting sucked into the
machine revealing these little fibers underneath so what I believe this
is is a little bit of cotton wool that the patient's been using has jammed
itself down inside the ear canal so I think this is probably the end of a
q-tip and the more we take away you can see exposes more of these little fibers
now it's really difficult to remove cotton wool with suction you can do it
sometimes but a lot of the time it just gets pulled through so what I've done is
worked a piece of the the cotton fibers away so we can use the crocodile forceps
to grip that section of fiber there you go
and that should then help us to maneuver this out and there we go mixture of
cotton or q-tip and fiber you can see it's a little bit of oil at the base
at the canal there but nothing that needs removing and there we are that's
what we're stuck in here so that's the perfect end of a q-tip
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