hi everybody this is Rhys Barber from
audiology associates thank you very much
watching our ear wax removal video today
just one patient in this video with
bilateral ear wax removal so you can see
looking in this first ear here now
we've got this very soft type of ear wax
here it's kind of soft and sticky it's
really plugged ear canal you can't see
any of the eardrum there at all so I've
introduced a little bit of olive oil in
here which is just gonna help with this
more sticky type of ear wax and we're
gonna peel from this right side here you
could got the standard size on the tube
in here you can see as we peel from the
right hand ear canal wall this section has
actually dried opens quite hard but as
soon as you peel that front section away
you hit this much more sticky soft type
of ear wax there now that's not always
the easiest type of ear wax removal
especially with suction because what you
tend to find is as you pull it it tends
to sort of break away and block the
suction up but we got a little bit of
dry skin we're just pulling on look at
that pull away there so that's kind of
thick dryer material there is great to
get a grip on with this type of this
type of ear wax and you can give that a good
sort of pull on there and they will the
whole thing will come out then but when
you get this kind of more sticky thick
center or a fig roll Fig Newton kind of
material you've got going on here it
blocks all that suction up really
quickly so I'm looking for any harder
pieces that we can get a good grip on
before we start tackling this much
softer material still pulling down low
from the attic getting rid of all this
kind of outer dryer edge I'm kind of
hoping that when we pull that out it's
gonna draw a lot more of this sticky
material out rather than to suction it
in but it doesn't always happen with
this type of ear wax you never know it did
kind of as you pull on it you never know
which way that sort of that ear wax is gonna
move then unfortunately but you can see
we're trying to roll it at the moment
use the harder edge to draw it down so
we're gonna get the jobs in Hoorn in
here now just above this bit of ear wax
we're trying to pull it down and
forwards but because it's only an outer
section of the ear wax that's hard as you
pull it what tends to happen is exactly
what's happened here that harder edge
flicks forwards and it exposes that much
softer material behind we
is really really difficult to get a good
grip with the jobs and all you just
going to pull through the center of it
which is what's happening here we've
taken some of the harder pieces with it
they were just managed to get a grip on
some of the harder section at the bottom
and draw that away there we are
if we take a look now you can see we
still got this kind of mounted a very
soft ear wax deeper in the ear canal very close
to the eardrum and we've hit that softer
material so it's not really kind of
bending forwards as it did just a second
ago you'll notice so we're better off
going in here now with the suction which
is gonna draw draw this ear wax further down
the ear canal although it does block up a
lot more because we're working so close
to the eardrum it's really good to use
that bit of suction just to draw this
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little bit more olive oil in here you
can see then that we've got this this
very kind of sticky ear wax at the base here
I've put the other violent to stop that
re sticking we've got this little chunk
of soft ear wax sitting the back end of its
in the valley just in front of the ear
drum and you can see we've got a couple
of little lumps on the left-hand side of
the ear canal wall there so we're just
trying to draw it from that section
just trying to lift this at there you go
did you see that that whole section
start to move there we are or we just we
broke the bottom section we didn't quite
get the movement we wanted to that top
section it's still really sticky
frustrating types of ear wax removals
these ones just because you you want the
ear waxed or come away and a little bit to
break away well now as we did there you
saw the whole thing start to move and
you just shear that one section off
there's just not that that structure to
the ear wax to draw it forward we've hit a
slightly harder piece now trying to hold
on to that section there we go it's
drawing down there we go we've got that
that whole section is just broken away
now fabulous I will take a good look in
there now we should see a little bit
left yeah it's a little tiny bit there
you can see just at the base of the
ear canal so we'll just we'll just Hoover
some of that up there slowly working
don't forget if you've watched these
videos before we talk about how
sensitive the ear canal walls are so
we're just trying to just skim just
above it light reflexes their ear drum
looks good so that's absolutely fine
patience here and a heck of a lot better
on that side now look at the difference
in the ear wax between the one ear and the
second ear here you had that very soft
Fig Newton figure all feeling kind of
ear wax now look at this we've got this
really hard dry a lot more structure to
this type of ear wax now we talked about the
much softer ear wax been more difficult to
suction in but look what happens when we
try and suck sure this looks this harder
type of ear wax as well because it's very
angular there's no smooth surface there
that the suction can't bed in as well as
it should do then you do struggle to get
a good grip and because they're all
these pieces of dry together they drain
overlapping one another so it's really
hard to get that really good grip in
there and you usually get a bit of dry
skin and thrown into the mix as well
which is just gonna hold that ear wax in
place as well so just try to break down
that like Timothy we see the left hand
so it's actually a piece of dry skin so
I'm trying to break and loosen that down
if we can get that away it means it is
gonna help to get the rest of this out
sorry guys I'm talking so much remotes
contract okay so we're just going in now
this is the Jobson home going in
we're joined a mist above these dry
pieces of ear wax now there we are trying to
roll it forward to create the gap at the
top so we can get right we've got behind
that first section that's just pulled
one of those layers across to the right
so we're going to go back in now trying
it behind that front section so it's
flicking the little pieces of ear wax out so
they're all still connected together but
what's happening is it's just flicking
the layers forwards which is going to
help us to get behind we're trained
waiting for this bottom section this
bottom layer if we can get that bit out
then we're gonna take a substantial
chunk out of here maybe I'll just get in
that last piece now Pauline forwards
there we go so it's just pulled it out
gonna get behind it again try and draw
the next section I've slowed all this
down so you can see what's going on
there we are you can see the ear canal
this we've managed to get this chunk out
it's sitting in the base of the ear canal so
we're just going to take a look there we
are few more dry pieces further in there
now we're working that little bit closer
to the eardrum so we're going to go in
with a suction tube it's picked up a
little bit of loose debris there just
block the end of the sections we've got
to clear that off before going next and
you can see it's done the same thing
again so all these little loose pieces
now we're getting sucked into the
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I would be fab so we just get these last
few pieces now lifting just trying to
peel away from the ear canal go dry that is
on the ear canal wall there it's really
dried out on there so we're just taking
all these little pieces out slowly
trying to work towards this back section
but we do have to remove all the little
little loose bits of the front first you
can see it when you get these much drier
flakier type ear waxes when you're going in
you are just taking away lots of little
pieces
because it blocks the suction really
easily if you imagine you've got a flat
plate that sits on the front of the
suction and it just you can't get the
grip that you need to the pieces behind
you're better off taking the suction out
clearing that off or you can hold it
sometimes just in just on the inside of
the ear canal and that's just gonna help
it to sort of suck those a little bit in
there we are all coming away really
nicely slowly working oh we were just
trying to get to this bottom section we
try to loosen everything up around it
but you can see it's all layered in
there so we have to take all the thought
the initial sort of front facing pieces
out first before we can get to this last
section it's got caught in the entrance
to the ear canal there's coming away let's
take a look behind that now got that
next yeah always slow very very slow
chipping away there we go so that's that
section there to the to the bottom going
up onto the left-hand side so you'll
still see there's a little bit left on
the right-hand side for us to remove
fingers crossed this should come away
really easily if it's loose enough there
you go so we stayed away from it and
just use the suction to draw it towards
that way then we're not put any risk of
going anywhere near the eardrum there
and there's the ear drum nice light
reflex good smooth skin so you can see
what we move look at the color
difference in the softer ear wax to the
left-hand side there and the most drier
ear wax to the right hand side so three of
the quarter inches or 8 centimetres
there