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Advice from a surgeon: use a larger diameter needle. The 25 is good for watery fluid but if it’s a little thicker (more blood and/or protein) it won’t. Also, the hole from an 18 needle will allow it to continue to drain into the dressing.
Best to make a small incision with a razor and use a turkey baster (large rubber bulb) to really suck that gunk out (or high powered vacuum, gets blood, tissue, cartilage...sometimes even brain fragments).
@@lemaz3571 never said it was and would never prescribed it willfully and mind you there is a bunch of antibiotics kinds (tablet, powder, liquid base etc) if you know the types of antibiotic you wouldnt reply that way because i was suggesting the liquid type where there is less chance of resistency
Whelp.. here I am. Back again. Laughing at this dumb comment. I ended up screen shorting it cuss it’s just too dang funny. WTF mannn.. you’re killing me. Someone charge this guy with attempted murder.
1. Wear gloves 2. Don't touch the site after disinfecting 3. You need to put a compressive dressing over the ear afterward to prevent reaccumulation. Aspirating the same site multiple times with those sweaty, greasy fingers is a staph infection waiting to happen.
@@LetoZeth He's giving medical advice like a helicopter parent who doesn't let their kid play outside. I'm sick of all of these social media and big media "experts" coming out of the woodwork pretending like they give a shit. As if ever prick and scrape deserves a compressive dressing, gloves, antibiotics, chemo, and 3 years of rehab.
This was a common event at my house growing up. My father was an Army medic and a former wrestler, both me and my brother both wrestled in high-school. BTW 18 gauge works like a Champ, hurts like hell but it works. This video is 100% correct BTW.
The other commenter agrees "Advice from a surgeon: use a larger diameter needle. The 25 is good for watery fluid but if it’s a little thicker (more blood and/or protein) it won’t. Also, the hole from an 18 needle will allow it to continue to drain into the dressing."
Advice from an ENT practicing PA-C - after having the periauricular hematoma drained (The above video was good, I like the bigger needle idea as it drains faster, will allow for thicker drainage including blood/protein/serous fluid), make sure you have pressure packing on that ear for a few days. This stops the ear from filling up again and greatly reduces the chance for cauliflower ear, which is what you see after untreated or poorly treated periauricular hematoma. Yes it looks goofy for a couple days, but the alternative is permanent disfigurement....take your pick.
Do you know for how long the pressure should stay applied? Had my Cauliflower ear drained earlier this week and since then I continuously applied pressure with some magnets and it hasn‘t filled up again yet, so it seems to work. I just can‘t find any info on how long healing takes until I can stop applying pressure and how long it roughly takes to heal
its common practice to you them adds a layer of preventative protection for the athlete my guy. Of Couse you can not use them. Latex gloves are as cheap as condoms.
@@pudgylittlehamster Non-sterile gloves are really only designed to protect the care giver, not the one receiving care. If you are attempting to minimize infection then he would need to be using sterile gloves which require training to be used correctly.
My son is a wrestler and is just getting into Jiu Jitsu. He has cauliflower ear (several times) and our doctor told him there is not much he could do because it had been over a couple days and said he would just make it worse by trying. I wish this guy had been around for my son.
I love the look on his face when he tells him that it’ll be a few times a day to drain it for a week. It looks like he expected it to be done with on scene.
@Kodiak Combat Collective I should have used ice, I was totally uninformed when I got it drained, only used my magnets for an hr and it came back. Then drained it another 2 times, its deflated but my ear is still f'd.
I don’t know anything about wrestling but my husband was a boxer in his younger years and I asked him once why he didn’t have cauliflower ears. He said the trick was to move fast enough to not get hit 😂
i have a c'flower ear, went to the clinic and had it aspirated a couple times, then i found this video, i have been able to stay on top of the situation draining it myself, and using magnets REALLY HELPS! Thank you very much!
@@einarwestermannsraa4694 I used a 20 gauge needle, that is .9mm outside diameter (.035 inch). To start with, I had this done in a clinic, and the girl there used much larger, not necessary.
@@pcbondartkinda late but how many times did you have to drain it? Did it come back after draining even with compression? How long did you give training a break? I have so many questions lol😊
been a while, the main thing was to keep it drained during the day, so at least 3 times a day, the main thing, the magnets were an ABSOLUTE MUST, I made my own up with some of those little round ones and some tape. I did not have to give train9ing a break, that did not apply to me. @@glock_9ine956
@Sean Francis Waters Lancaster Actually it is a common sentence said by Helio Gracie... And commonly repeated by his sons ( Rorion Gracie and Rickson Gracie ). Because if you have cauliflower ears, it's because you had to force your self out of a position with strenght, not technique.
@@vitorjjb difference in the sport. In folkstyle you sometimes have to force yourself out so you don't give up backpoints on bottom, that's where most guys get cauliflower ear.
@@Burschlag The other guy is probably right, it makes a lot of sense. Wrestlers rely a lot more on physical strength, explosive power, and overall craziness to get moves in and escapes. I train BJJ so I train with wrestlers too. It's like they don't learn any technique, they just rely on purely physical attributes. I remember seeing a video about the difference between American and Russian wrestlers and why Russians were so much better. The guy in the video did wrestling in both countries and said Americans train a lot harder but didn't focus on technique. Russians trained a lot easier but focused heavy on technique.
@@George-wv5wk according to whom? With a raging pandemic you’re saying not wearing gloves is okay? Being exposed to someone else’s bodily fluids can be dangerous; what if that young man were to have HIV or hepatitis? If he had an open wound on his hand he was exposing himself to a number of situations. Always be careful and err on the side of caution especially with Covid running rampant.
@@kimberpas2907 raging pandemic ? Where do you live ? And If you pinch you own hand doesn't matter if you use gloves or not, you are already infected. The same, if you don't pinch your hand, you can touch as much blood as you want. Lol
Hi this was amazing, just to see the swollen ear go down. I do agree with using a few more health measures, than the alcohol wipe swabs. You did him a huge service.
@@airgunbubba2505 There's a reason for that to be fair. Mostly because the last 100 or so years of nutritional "science" was heavily tainted by industry. A lot of "money making words" sort of stuff. Not too far from Dr. Oz showboating vitamins and supplements that are useless, and commonly downright harmful, to a large percentile of the populace. To extrapolate, 50$ says you don't need a vitamin C supplement. Why do I say this? Because if you've eaten nearly anything that isn't straight grain or meat for the last week, you've got enough vitamin C to keep rocking. On the other hand. Let's say you pop a capsule of concentrated vitamin C. If you've already got acceptable levels in your system. That capsule can cause some less than preferable effect. These aren't so bad for something like vit c, but for A or Iron levels. You're in for a world of hurt. Know the food pyramid? Completely fucked. Especially since diets, and the subsequent calorie/nutrient intake vary massively from person to person. Most of the Daily Values stuff on your food, garbage. The amounts are still useful, but otherwise... Kinda pointless. So yeah. Fun stuff. Welcome to the world of science. It's tedious, and can be about as reliable as a screen door on a submarine.
I learned this on my own but the face of the woman at CVS when I asked for needles was priceless. Said no they couldn’t sell them too me until I showed her my ear lol.
As someone who use to work for cvs when a customer asks for a pack of needles without a prescription 90% of the time we automatically assume it’s heroin the other 10% is actually a legit reason lol.
@John J. Jingleheimer-Schmidt Don’t get me wrong! We still have them the syringes for that reason particularly, to stop the spread of diseases from reusing syringes. I’m jus saying for the most part the people that were buying packs of needles typically used them for drugs and not for something like say actual diabetes or the same use in the video. And when someone says “jus give me any size”.... we know it ain’t for diabetes...
From a microbiologist: after you clean the ear, don't go back over with your fingers, gloves or not. Figure out before you clean where you want to stick. You have so much skin flora and you're in a gym that one of these days you'll catch an infection. I know ya'll have probably done this dozens of times, but don't risk your health over something that's pretty easy to avoid. Great video otherwise.
So as a microbiologist, how do you explain Wim Hof’s ability to fight off E. Coli bacteria without any immune response? How does that make sense according to the germ theory? Answer: It doesn’t. The germ theory is bunk science. A dogma. Viruses do not cause disease. Viruses are the result of disease. We have trillions of viruses within our own body, used for that very purpose. Blaming viruses for disease is like blaming firefighters for the fires. They are there as a result.
@@mayeramschelrothschild3126 ur clearly not understanding the "germ theory" or rather the immune system overall. theres actually quite a few vids about it, even in correlation to wim hof
@@mayeramschelrothschild3126 can’t tell if serious or not. We all live with E. coli in our gut, it’s normal flora. In fact, low numbers of the bacteria and others make your immune system weaker. Your argument about viruses is even further off base. Viruses are a product of disease? Please tell me your expertise in virology and microbiomes.
@@justinsane11 Oh ok, so the scientists testing Wim Hof were in on the conspiracy with him? He wasn’t injected with E. coli cell wall to simulate a sepsis? He didn’t control every cell within his body with his mind and breathing? My sources? Scientists who are actually willing to follow the scientific method. “Medical doctors are working on the germ theory of disease… But the germ theory is already weakening and is due for being thrown aside. Dr. Fraser of Canada and Dr. Powell of California have experimented with billions of germs of all varieties, but they have been unable to produce a single disease by the introduction of germs into human subjects. Dr. Waite tried for years to prove the germ theory, but he could not do so. During the World War an experiment was conducted at Gallop’s Island Massachusetts, in which millions of influenza germs were injected into over one hundred men at the Government hospital, and no one got the flu. Germs are scavengers.” - Principles and Practice of Naturopathy. E.W. Cordingley, M.D.., N.D.,A.M. Then there is Stefan Lanka, who discovered the first virus in the ocean - which is symbiotic. He’s been saying that viruses have been mislabeled for years, but of course he’s called a quack. “We agree with those members of the profession who hold that no germ causes tuberculosis. Germs do not cause any disease. Further, we agree that there is more harm in the fear of germs than there is in the germs themselves.” - Timely Truths on Human Health - Simon Louis Katzoff, M.D. 1921 “Rudolph Virchow, a great German scientist, repudiated the germ theory of disease. He said that disease brought on germs rather than the germs caused disease. Claude Bernard, Bechamp and Tissot - great French scientists - all disproved the germ theory of disease. In Hans Selye’s book Stress of Life (Page 205), an account is recorded that Louis Pasteur, inventor of the germ theory of disease, admitted he was wrong. Sanitation is the only factor that has reduced the spread of the old-time scourges. If the germ theory were founded on facts, there would be no living being to read what is here in written, for germs are ubiquitous - they exist everywhere. In many diseases supposedly caused by a specific germ, that germ is not present. Contrariwise, specific germs said to cause a specific disease are present in huge proportions without the specific disease manifesting itself.” - Dr. Bernarr, D.C., D.D
First time I ever got cauliflower ear, my mother (Who's an RN) tried to poke it with a needle from the back because that's where the mass of the pocket was. When she stuck the needle in, it shot right back out from the pressure and a stream of blood sprayed all over the bathroom wall. She said it was the grossest thing she'd ever seen and that's saying a lot 🤣
Uncontrolled swelling can be painful so he might of just felt relief. There's probably a lot of cases of something swelling which can then cause pressure and pain in the neighboring area.
@@nijooo5480 that literally doesn’t matter lmao. Your doctor washes their hands and then puts on gloves. A piercer washes their hands and then puts on gloves. A surgeon washes their hands and then puts on gloves. It’s a protective barrier for bodily fluids. If he had a cut on his hand he didn’t know about and this guy had HPV or any other blood borne pathogen, the guy would get it immediately, and vice versa. PPE should not be optional when any bodily fluids are involved, it’s just common sense. Why would you want someone else’s blood or puss on your skin? That’s nasty and unsanitary
I recommend gloves when dealing with needles and blood and DO NOT touch the injection site with your bare hands. Other than that, this was an awesome video to watch
Gloves only help if the operator is bacteria-conscious and doesn't put the gloves on with dirty hands then continue touching other non-sterilized parts of the patient. His hands were going everywhere on this guy's head who's been sweating on the floor, then to cap it off he mashed his fingers directly onto the hole he just put in that ear. I'd show this video to my GP and tell him to do what this coach did but clean.
@@w1mark275 Gloves should be skin tight. People do delicate work in gloves all the time, and this procedure isn't that demanding. The coach just needs to take a basic medic training course and learn about staph.
It's been a long time since I dealt with this, but I think you can also put a pressure dressing on it after draining, kind of tamponade the bleeding. Helps keep it from refilling the space. I never had it bad enough to get it drained, but I knew plenty of guys who did, I think they sometimes put the dressing.
I have caulibuds that I put on, how do you know if it's done draining/healing. I took them off a couple of times and the ear filled back up again. I even put them on after the ear filled up, which was not smart because it spread out the cauliflower ear fluid. Now I'm just leaving them on for a day or 2 after draining what didn't already harden but they hurt.
Very good approach, just as a golden standard for better practice in terms of infection control... The video should have showed the practitioner washing his hands and wearing gloves prior to the procedure and also after find the right point of puncture touching the area then clean the skin and immediately inserting the needle, as touching again the site with bare hand just prior to the needle insertion increases the risk of infection. Other wise very well done technique.
i worked in a medical field for 8 years. so ill give a ''professional'' review on this. long story short this is simply amazing. fast, prevents further damage and doesnt need a doctor to pull of
I made the mistake of trying to squeeze everything out of my ear after using the needle to drain it. Also didn't put on the caulibud magnets for long enough.
i could’ve used this video in high school. one of my teammates destroyed my ear and i went to the doctor. dude squeezed the absolute shit out of my ear and now i can only hear about 60% of what people say to me.
I don't think that was a real doctor if he managed to damage your hearing. Course I have had my fair share of experiences with medical personnel doing things that they should have looked up in a textbook before attempting.
I believe that cauliflower ears are a right of passage for wrestlers and bjj guys. Honestly I had a bad case of this while competing in freestyle. I definitely always would recommend wearing ear protection unless you enjoy the look.
You can get it from Rugby too. My Uncle has them real bad and they stand out even more because he has a massive head and huge ears anyway lol. He's dull as a brush too from nearly 30 years of head trauma in Pro Rugby.
After personally having cauliflower ear, you can honestly have it drained by getting a hole poked or cut open (by a doctor) or drain with a needle, you just gotta to keep pressure on the ear after to keep it from filling back up. I had a doctor sew something through the back of my ear through cartilage to keep pressure. But I hear magnets work, you just can’t keep them on their for a long time because it’s bad for it to have that much pressure on it.
crom., it's got nothing to do with being scared. The ear cartilage is ~super~ sensitive. After being swollen that bad for several days, that ear is already throbbing like a money shot and sending random lightning bolts into his head that will literally make you see colors. Having it drained like that is likely going to feel like fire and cheap vodka, with the added fun of a needle poking around in there and sucking out what probably feels like his actual skull bone. And I'm not even exaggerating that much.
As a Paramedic, aseptic technique was none existent (props for alc prep first), everything else great job. Puncture shouldn't be deep, larger the gauge the more better, draw and pressure was on point. Overall nice work
I drained fluid from my knee a few times. I had syringes and sterile 14 gauge needles because I raise livestock. My Dr. at the time was doing it weekly at $200 a pop. He was upset when I did it myself but I had $5000 deductible insurance. Ain’t nobody got time for that
@@DreadMunky generally injury to the soft tissues, the joint capsule, meniscus, etc. Soft tissue injuries tend to have fluid accumulation which can be either serum, or blood etc. Think of it as bruise inside the knee.
@@boguslav9502 i see, OP mentioned that he was doing it weekly.. so that means its gonna be a permanent issue?isnt that athritis or gout? Im gonna try to google it.. i always find medical stuff fascinating. Shouldve taken medical course but im too squeamish..
Or because he’s a fighter and is used to the pain that caused that cauliflower ear in the first place. I don’t mean to be rude, just another take on it.
Actually, this happens to me sometimes without being injured bc of my autoimmune disease and it's really not that bad draining it. Once you get past that initial "pop" you don't feel anything except relief until you pull it out
@@shrimuyopa8117 It’s BJJ they have belts and in all sports their are competition they’re literally Badges that can be won. Why look ugly? Why be deformed?
It hurts a little, but there is more relief than pain. I can tell you right now his ear was probably really sore because it was so engorged with blood. It’s similar to pulling a splinter. It may hurt to pull a splinter but it feels so good when the splinter is out.
I can assume it'd hurt more if it was infected. It's not like a cyst. Then again the nerves are probably destroyed in that guy's ear from bashing it against a mat for years to feel much of anything.
Kinda, yeah. Basically the injury to the ear separates some of the internal layers around the cartilage and lets fluid collect underneath, resulting in this characteristic swelling. If you leave it, fibrous tissue grows in there, resulting in the permanent disfigurement.
My dog had it, believe it or not, dogs with floppy ears can get it lol the vet drained it and then sewed buttons to his ear to keep the layers together so that they could adhere again
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