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  • Pebble in ear
  • molgrips
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    My daughter 🙄

    Wife wants to know – A&E or not. She said she put it in there ‘the other day’ and it got stuck, and she could feel it this morning but not now.

    A&E or Doc appointment?

    allthegear
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    A&E apparently. Goddaughter had a habit of doing it when she was 3. GP didn’t really have the equipment to get stuff out.

    Rachel

    salad_dodger
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    Couldn’t you just blow into the opposite ear?

    Stoner
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    Couldn’t you just blow into the opposite ear?

    I think current best practice is rodding from the other side with a chopstick

    bikebouy
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    This..

    scotroutes
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    Is anyone disappointed this isn’t about a new, wearable, compact Smart watch?

    jimbobo
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    minor injury unit, or GP, and not having the equipment is a poor excuse! Its an auroscope, tweezers and a steady hand, standard issue to all good GP’s!

    CountZero
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    Can’t you use the same technique for getting ketchup out of a bottle? Hold the head with the blocked ear facing down, then smack sharply on the other, upper side.
    Or would that attract unwanted attention from social services…?
    😉

    hammyuk
    Free Member

    Rockshox syringe and warm water.
    Same as cleaning wax out.

    Flaperon
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    johnners
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    If it’s making her list to one side just put one in the other ear.

    scotroutes
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    But then she’d be listless

    jekkyl
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    hoover’s not a bad idea. How’d you get on Op?

    molgrips
    Free Member

    Think they are going in to the experts tomorrow.

    JoeG
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    Document the whole thing, lots of video.

    It could prove very useful when she is a teenager! 😈

    Drac
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    I once had some with a peanut in their ear, I poured in some melted chocolate and it came out a treat.

    shermer75
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    Get a mathematician to work it out with a pencil

    sobriety
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    I put a pebble up my nose as a kid. GP fished it out with tweezers, so they;d be my first port of call, even for ears.

    It’s not like it’ll get worse if it’s lodged in anyways, ear canals don’t get bigger as they go in. (IANAD)

    CharlieMungus
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    Get it done soon.or she may end up stone deaf

    DrP
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    and not having the equipment is a poor excuse! Its an auroscope, tweezers and a steady hand, standard issue to all good GP’s!

    The trouble is… kids are a pain as they wriggle and faff – sometimes they need a GA to get stuff out.
    Secondly – if it can’t come out with forceps, then it might need to be suctioned out.

    However – if you do go to your GP, suggest to them that a dab of superglue (or stitch glue) on teh end of a cotton swab, then prodded in, can stick to the stone, then you just pull it out!

    DrP

    cranberry
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    Next question:

    Where to go when you have a small child with a pebble stuck to some cotton wool stuck to some tweezers in their ear ?

    JoeG
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    Where to go when you have a small child with a pebble stuck to some cotton wool stuck to some tweezers in their ear that is stuck to a doctor[/i] ?

    Harry_the_Spider
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    The local NHS Walk In Centre extracted some sweetcorn from my daughter’s nose when it “fell off the fork” at pre school.

    joshvegas
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    Ask the cat to fetch the emergency flag?

    AlexSimon
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    Drac – Moderator

    I once had some with a peanut in their ear, I poured in some melted chocolate and it came out a treat. Very good – I think you need to be a certain age to get this though 🙂

    simons_nicolai-uk
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    suggest to them that a dab of superglue (or stitch glue) on teh end of a cotton swab, then prodded in,

    I’ve got a pebble stuck in my ear canal and a cotton bud superglued to my ear.

    There was an old woman who swallowed a fly….

    Cougar
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    She must have big ears to get a smartwatch in there.

    scotroutes
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    6th post Cougar

    globalti
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    Mrs Gti has got a 3cm gallstone inside her. That’s going to need more than tweezers.

    twiglet_monster
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    ah yes we had this fun one day.

    Start with GP – if its well wedged (the nut my daughter had in the ear was) he may not touch it.

    We ended up in A&E – they tried increasingly intrusive things. Ended up with a metal hook going in there (a Doctor did this) and hoiking it out. If that didn’t work then it would needed to be done under a general.

    Using “gentle suction” was utterly useless – would be fine if you had a small piece of dry tissue in there – not man enough for anything else.

    best of luck

    TM

    mrhoppy
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    Ask the cat to fetch the emergency flag?

    Well played sir.

    Cougar
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    6th post Cougar

    Blast, I read that yesterday and forgot.

    perchypanther
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    The dangers of listening to rock music…

    molgrips
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    Yesterday my wife asked her to shake her head to see if she could hear anything in there. She said ‘no, just the normal voices’ with a mischievious grin 😯

    Anyway today Doc said there was nothing in there. Should’ve asked her to check again for fairies or other creatures that might be talking to her..

    fasthaggis
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    Sounds like she makes things up.
    Wonder where she gets that from ? 😛

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