I have seen that exact foreign “mystery” body in practice before. It turns out the patient worked in a bakery and was exposed to high levels of flour dust . The flour dust builds up slowly in the ear canal (especially when it’s naturally moist) and produces that exact texture
I'm fairly certain the fibers are from ear muffs. One of my kids had a similar wax plug and when the pediatrician removed it we noticed that the fibers in it were the same color as her winter ear muffs she was wearing
would be interested to know if the patient has a hobby or profession that sheds fibres like this? A carpet layer, or a home knitter, or weaver or uses a spinning wheel. Looks like woolen fibres. Great video, thanks guys.
I used to work in a sewing factory, and honestly, if we blew our nose, we would see what color fabric we were sewing with that day. I could see some fibers like that getting lodged in our ears as well.
You guys are great at what you do, I recently had blocked ears, first time in my 64 years of life and I ended up going to my Dr to have them checked and he told me to get these ear drops and once I put the drops in, I couldn’t hear anything, it was quite scary because he didn’t explain that to me and I had an appointment 3 days later for him to irrigate my ears out, he or should I say his nurse did the procedure and it took her almost an hour of flushing out my ears, she still couldn’t get all the wax out and I have an appointment next month to see an ENT specialist and hopefully he has one of those gadgets that suck the wax out, it didn’t hurt but it was a weird experience and she had to stop because she was using too much water flushing out my ears, now I understand what some of these people go through and it has nothing to do with cleanliness or a persons hygiene because I’m a very clean person and this was the first time I’ve ever had something like this happen to me, I appreciate everything you guys do to help your patients. Cheers from Australia ❤️❤️
I think the fibers in the mystery plug are fibers from a fuzzy scarf maybe or I wonder if they use a sewing machine either for their job or a hobby. There is a unique “dust” that builds up on a sewing machine especially after working with fleece or cotton fabrics. That could account for the unique colored threads.
The last one looks like something my brother had in his ear when he was little. He had a pice of a blanket stuck in it. The blanket had little pills like sweaters get on them and one of the larger ones came off in his sleep and ended in his ear. Looked just like that last plug.
Here's another use for olive oil!! My cat came in at 5.30 on a Saturday afternoon with a serious cut on her paw!! The vets closed at 5, so I was in a panic as to what to do!?!?, so I phoned 'The Oracle', my mother, for advice. Clean it under lukewarm water to clean it, pat excess water off and rub in Olive Oil!! I was like eh???, explanation was, Smudge my cat wouldn't like the feel of the oil, so she'll spend the weekend licking it off!!, which she did. I couldn't believe it on the Monday morning it was clean and nearly healed. 😂😂😂 Well done to my Mother. 😁👏😁👏😁
Could be a piece or many pieces compressed from cotton bud use of lint or pills from ear muffs or even a scarf or cap that patient uses to keep their ears warm.
The mystery object looked a bit like the end of an old/ degraded ear plug. Some of the cheap in-ear headphones have a coloured cover over foam and it's a bit like if one of those had got wet and broken down inside the ear canal
Oh my gosh the way that one just kind of unraveled like hi guy's and I can just picture Rob Schneider standing there going "you can do it!" Haha I wonder if that could be a little bit of tissue or paper towel that they rolled up or covered the end of their finger/nail with to try to get it? I don't know curious isn't it? OK Waxaholic's unite! There's work to be done here...maybe if we all ask at the same time we'll get a live soon! It's been quite a while and would be great to see please please please. I think between the two of you you could invent a tool that could act as a third hand get a patent for that bad boy and y'all would be set. It would be perfect coming from the experienced knowledgeable professional Audiologists such as yourselves just a thought 😊 thanks again as always a great watch have a good night all!
Love your channel you are so kind and non judgmental and take very good care of all your patients, fyi cotton buds come in colors now . Anyway God bless ❤❤you
Well... how fascinating... all great videos. That last one made me wonder if it was a piece of a felt ball. My friend uses them. I think they are called Habico balls. They are to make little fuzzy, fluffy animals, and each one can have many colours. They do have that same consistency, too 🤷🏼♀️... anyway, it would be fascinating to find out soon. Well done you two as ever 👏🏻
Maybe the mystery fibers were from a blanket, throw, or fuzzy pillow. Pet hairs could be part of it as well as they might have been on the fuzzy item. Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
❤😊 absolutely amazing g and curious video! As for the mystery fibrous object, would it be by chance, a piece of kleenix that the lady may have put on the end of a hair pin? I'm also wondering about a cotton make-up pad remover? It will be interesting if you were to put it under a microscope and let us know what it was. Again much enjoyed the video, guys! Xoxo😊
I went to my family Dr. earache, and his partner was there. He was so mean said my ears were filthy and rammed a thing down in my ear, said I was full of wax-don’t you ever clean your ears? I was only 19, and yes I clean my ears. That Dr hurt me so bad. I am 70 and have never went to Dr when I had an earache since. I would just tell them I had a toothache and they gave me antibiotics. I want to get my ears cleaned, but I don’t know where to go. At my age all they want to do is give me hearing aids.
Just FYI Rhys and Taylor, I've been getting adverts in the last couple of episodes. Not sure if RU-vid is supposed to put adverts in your videos? Loved this post, as always ❤️
Raquel I😅 have heard from some of the other people I follow on RU-vid that they get a portion of the money that comes from the advertisements. Not sure if this is true, but I’ve started watching at least one of them all the way through or just letting it run while I’m doing other things just in case that is the case can somebody let me know and if so, I’m happy to watch both of them for these guys if they get some of the proceeds I know it’s not much though They’re great
Didn’t have adverts in any of their videos. Strange. No I don’t have advert free RU-vid, for other videos I do get adverts and strangely for the meditation videos luckily only at the beginning but when I have two following up it can be a moment of why? 😂
I think the fibers are from a towel, used after bathing. They probably gently use the towel to dry their ears an a small ball of fibers dropped off the towel into the ear.
It looks like a mish-mash of a few different things, but I'd agree, there's definitely fiber in there. Maybe a bit of yarn or, as someone else suggested, fluff from a sweater or earmuff?
The colored fibres have me stumped. Maybe lint from ear muffs, scarf or working with yarn? Also, I got an ad at 6:26. But thoroughly enjoyed this one! Thanks for sharing.
Unfortunately one may not see our local ear,nose, throat dr without first going for a hearing test, but yet I have never once complained about my hearing... Because I refused to pay the 80$ for this hearing test I ended up losing the appointment.... SO I gave up...😢
The way the fibrous strands I saw in there were bending and moving, I would think it’s some sort of synthetic material- like from nylon earmuffs or a polyester headband?
Looks like gauze, and appears to have a similar consistency. Why it would be pushed in to an ear, although it coukd gave got stuck after oil was administered and theh couldn't get ig back out.
A piece of facial tissue. They used a tissue, with their finger, to rub the inside of their ear and a piece broke off. Then, later, they used a q-tip or a cotton bud and pushed it in really far.
Could it be newspaper? The paper used in Newspapers is fibrous. Maybe he used a tiny roll of some to scratch h and then forgotten about it. This is a good mystery!!
This looks like is wool yarn fibers from someone who knits or crochets. Strangely my mother when she was alive and using her hearing aids used to get a similar problem.
It looked like hair of some kind. I would be interested to know what the patient does for a living. I used to work in a dog grooming salon and once had to pull a dog hair out from behind my eyelid. There was also a lot of dog dander flying around when we used the blow dryers on the dogs.
It makes me wonder if she works with textiles in some capacity? I worked as an “industrial seamstress”-sewing bits and pieces to go on utility vests-for a year and my mind immediately went to the “thread dust” that was all over our workroom.
