When you visit an otolaryngologist with symptoms that at first glance appear to be problems with your hearing, there are several things that might be listed on your bingo card.
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What probably isn’t there is what one woman said an ENT doctor found when he examined her ear: clumps of dog hair.
In a video with over 1.5 million views, content creator Karrah (@karrah_peden_tram) unravels new horrors for his many viewers. She shares her experience of having a large clump of dog hair removed from her ear canal by an ENT doctor shortly after discovering a large clump of earwax.
“I’m literally mortified,” she said in the video. “I just got back from the otolaryngologist. I went there because I thought I was losing my hearing. So he went in and examined both ears, starting with the one that was OK. And he said, ‘ “Oh, wait a minute,” she said as she started digging inside and pulled out a huge chunk of black earwax. It’s disgusting, it’s big, and it looks like we shouldn’t be in there. ”
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She says this chunk of wax came out of what was supposed to be her “healthy ear” and left her unprepared for what happened next.
“It was a healthy ear,” she says. “I was like, oh, gross, but cool. Then he moved on to the next question and said, ‘OK, there’s still earwax in this, it’s actually stuck to the eardrum, so this It’s going to take a minute.”
Doctors then removed earwax from Kara’s “problem” ear.
“It hurts so much. Then he pulls it out. It’s just as bad, but more painful, but then he goes, ‘No way,'” Culler recalled. “And he said, ‘Oh, you’re not going to believe what I’m going to pull out next.'”
She never expected him to pull out large chunks of dog hair, she says.
“So I’m dying inside. I think it’s a bug and I have a goddamn bug in my ear,” she says. “[He] I brought out tweezers, but it was very painful. He’s pulling really hard and it’s hitting my eardrum. A huge clump of dog hair. Then he said it looked like someone had put dog hair in my ear and stuffed it into a canal. I can’t. “
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The Daily Dot reached out to Kara via direct message on TikTok regarding the video.
What is the correct way to clean your ears?
Generally, the safest way to clean your ears is to leave it to a professional rather than putting something like a cotton swab or tweezers into your ear yourself.
There are some gentle way To clean your ears, use a damp cloth to wipe the outside of your ear canal, or soak your ears in a mixture of warm water, mineral oil, hydrogen peroxide, or saline to loosen and remove earwax buildup. There is.
For those who think they have a more serious amount of buildup, a medical professional can clean the ear and forceps to remove any potential blockage, as the poster explains.
viewers sympathize
Some viewers commented that the poster is essentially living the dream, as he closely monitors the health of his ears and hasn’t found any significant but interesting blockages.
“I’ve always used Q-tips and had my ears checked and nothing was found. It’s a shame because I was hoping for a dramatic moment where I could hear much better than before. ” one commenter wrote.
“I’m embarrassed to admit that I watch ear cleaning videos on TT and YouTube,” said another. “It’s as addictive as popping pimples. Now I’m also looking at horse and cow hooves (ferriers). I’m amazed that he “pulled” and irrigated. ”
“My husband had to go get his ears cleaned, so I scheduled a day when I could go, and then I told the doctor how excited I was, so he showed me everything he had cleaned. ” another user recalled. “10/10”
Some other viewers said they work in otolaryngology and have seen similar things coming out of people’s ears, or that doctors are observing the contents of a patient’s earwax. I shared it.
“I work in an ENT clinic and I see all kinds of things in people’s ears…I’ve seen two incidents where dog hair was affected, cockroaches on eardrums, craft supplies. , sticks, stones… the ear is a wild place.”
“My pediatrician likes to guess what kind of dog a child has by looking at dog hair in their ears, lol,” another doctor shared.
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