[Closed] Pebble in ear

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

Couldn't you just blow into the opposite ear?

Couldn't you just blow into the opposite ear?

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

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

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!

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...?
😉

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

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

But then she'd be listless

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

Think they are going in to the experts tomorrow.

Document the whole thing, lots of video.

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

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

Get a mathematician to work it out with a pencil

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)

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

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

Next question:

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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.

Ask the cat to fetch the emergency flag?

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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.

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....

She must have big ears to get a smar****ch in there.

6th post Cougar

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

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

Ask the cat to fetch the emergency flag?

Well played sir.

6th post Cougar

Blast, I read that yesterday and forgot.

The dangers of listening to rock music...

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..

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