Ear Wax Removal Videos
Whats the Problem with Wax?
Well, hello, everyone. I wanted to take a few minutes just to go through a very basic question, which is what is wax? Is it a problem do I need to book in to get it removed? The first misconception I want to address is the fact that everybody thinks wax is ugly, it's icky, and everybody wants it out. Right? That's a natural feeling. When you see videos, it makes you feel a little bit uncomfortable. Actually, wax serves a very important function of wax is there in order to lubricate your ear in order to protect your eardrum from things that might get in and damage your ear. And as the skin sheds as the inner part of your ear canal shed skin, the wax does a really important job of bringing all of that extra debris out and naturally migrates to the external ear canal. And when you have a shower, without even knowing it, you'll start to remove that wax by just the water gently removing it. So it's really important for people to understand, you don't need to always go in and remove your wax. So you don't need to make further appointments all the time. And unless it's causing a problem, you can generally just avoid it and leave it and that's healthier for you. That's the first thing. The second thing, however, is that in some cases, it can cause issues and that's the people that would end up looking in and needing it removed. And the reason it's so important is that that type of problems that you might experience or if you get impacted wax, the wax is now starting to block your ear canal. That will, first of all, you'll start to notice because you won't be able to hear very well and it happens almost immediately. Because the wax has gradually been building up, it blocks your ear canal and then suddenly you just can hear people get really frightened but 99% of the time, it's just because the wax is blocking your ear canal you book in, we remove the wax and instantaneously things go back to normal. Another impact wax can have if it blocks your ear canal is it can cause tinnitus, so tinnitus is the feeling that you're hearing the sound it can be a number of different sounds, but usually, people describe it as a buzzing or whistling sound. And impacted wax can cause that temporarily. By removing the wax often that will go away. And it's just because the wax is cold and causing a barrier and the tinnitus ordinarily which you wouldn't hear starts to become audible to you. And if depending on how long the wax has been there, and how far it is, it can sometimes be quite uncomfortable and even painful for people. So it is important that we provide this service for the right person. It's not important that everybody books in but it is important that if you are feeling like you are struggling with work so it's causing you an issue, you walk in as quickly as possible and will advise you about what you need to do. Hope that helps. See you next time.
Preparing for Your Appointment
Hi everyone, I wanted to take a few seconds just to give you some advice about how you might be able to book an appointment and what you need to think about beforehand, in order to make that process as smooth and easy as possible. So first of all, if you need to make an appointment, and you feel like wax is causing an issue for you, you need to contact us now there are two ways you can do that, you can either give us a call or book over the phone. And the number to do that is 01215171140. And you'll find the number on our website that you're on at the moment. Or you can WhatsApp us on the same number. So you just send us a message on WhatsApp and have a conversation with us. And we'll book an appointment at a time and place that's closest to you. So we're based around the West Midlands. So we'll try and find the clinic that's closest to you in order to provide that service. So you can either come to the clinic, and we'll decide which one or in some people I know some people are quite vulnerable or their preference is actually that we make it more convenient for them. So in some cases, I or one of our audiologists will come and see you at home if that's what you prefer to do. So we can discuss the prices for that. And if you wanted to, or somebody can't make it into the clinic, please ask and we'll provide a service, we will come to your property, and we'll see you at the house to make it comfortable and convenient for you. And we'll try and provide the service there. Before we do that, however, and this is the second thing I wanted to talk about today, it's very important that before we see you, we've tried our best and you've tried your best to actually soften the wax in order to make the process a lot easier. hard wax doesn't come out very easily and it can actually be quite uncomfortable. So we need to soften the wax. Now the best way to do that, there are two ways we can do it, we can use some sort of natural olive oil virgin olive oil that you just find often in use for cooking. And that's the easiest accessible source. Add a few drops on some cotton or cotton wool dripped into your ear at night. And ideally in the morning can do that over five days before the appointment. And that often will often soften the wax and it makes our job so much easier. Another way you can do it is to buy a similar type of substance and consistency but in some sort of bottle format with a nozzle that has a spray nozzle that injects the fluid into your ear. And that's often a lot easier in terms of application, you can just buy these from the chemist if you have a chat with them and just say I need some sort of oil-based drops to be able to provide you with this. The other thing you might want to think about and then this often is the secondary case, if we're not able to get the wax out because it's just too stubborn we might advise you to use sodium bicarbonate drops or soda withholding bicarbonate drops, you can buy it from the chemist, they often are more effective at breaking down the wax that's quite stubborn. The reason we often have it as a secondary port of call is that it can often be quite aggressive. And if used for too long, people don't often feel quite uncomfortable because it's quite aggressive against the skin in the ear canal. So we don't want to overuse that but sometimes it is necessary if the standard treatments aren't doing their job and we need to really break down that wax. So we're looking forward to seeing you in the clinic. Please follow this advice. Book your appointments, and we'll see you soon. Thank you
Wax Removal Equipment
Hello, everyone, I wanted to take a few minutes just to go through with you some of the equipment that you might see in one of our clinics. So ordinarily, we use a selection of equipment, and we use them depending on the circumstances and your ears. But on the left-hand side here, we have some manual tools. So these are just basically not complicated. On the left-hand side here, in my left hand, we have something called a blunt hook, which is a very tiny hook that allows us to go behind a piece of wax, and just gently bring that out. So if it's a solid piece of wax and has access, this often is the easiest way to remove it, then we have something called a full set, which is like a small, tiny scissor, it's got a blunt edge at the end here to minimise any damage we could do. And we need to be very careful with this. But essentially, this allows us to go and grab a piece of wax that it has to be quite solid. So if you'd be if you had been using olive oil as you should, often this isn't very helpful because it goes in. And it just meshes with the wax, there's not much you can do with it unless it's very solid. But it can be very helpful. If you've got dead skin that's mixed with the wax called keratin, and that often is quite stringy and solid. And if you can grab a piece of that you can bring the whole thing out things like foreign bodies, like cotton wool, sometimes people get stuck in their ears that's valuable and helpful. Then we have sort of the main pieces of equipment which are these here, these silver items are called speculate. And they are what we use to bring open up your ear canal, they come in various sizes, and they are used alongside some head loops. So head loops are placed over your head, and you have a light source at the top here, which I haven't attached. But normally that would then shine into your ear. I have these magnetic, these magnifying loops here that I'm looking through. And that gives me a certain level of magnification. So it makes it much bigger with what I'm seeing, I would then use one of these to speculate the right size to hold it into your ear canal, I can now see directly through the specularly in my right hand would have my suction pen, which I would go through the speculum and remove any wax that I might see through that. The benefits of this are it's really helpful if you've got quite narrow ear canals. Because we can open up your ear canal it gives us access. But often the visual you're going to get through this isn't as good as what we prefer, which is an endoscope. So an endoscope is by far the clearest type of image we're going to get when we're looking at your ears. Because it's real, it's a real-life image. It's not magnification, it's seeing if you were in that far into the ear with your naked eye, that's exactly what you would see. So it gives you a fantastic visual. We've got here a rigid endoscope, which we place into the ear canal, the bottom that I'm holding, we've got this light source which I press that you'll see a light will come on the end, and that gives us the clarity. And then on the end here we have a device that we look through and I've got an iPhone here, and that would then I would actually when I perform this procedure, I would hold it with my left hand I would be able to look and see what's going on through the image that is presented on my iPhone and my right-hand side I'd have my suction pen and I would then be gradually removing the wax as I will.
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