THIS is the stomach-churning moment an audiologist uses a sucker to extract a huge lump of green Play-Doh from a patient’s ear.
As the ear specialist trains a camera down his eight-year-old patient’s ear canal, it is almost entirely blocked by the dough which measures almost a centimetre across.
Taking a sucker to the ear, the Play-Doh has to be pulled out through ear hairs and wax from its position deep in the ear canal.
Consultant audiologist Neel Raithatha of The Hear Clinic in Oadby, Leicestershire, carried out the microsuction using a vacuum to remove the blockage from the boy’s right ear.
He then used a special scraper to clean out sticky ear wax that could attract more blockages.
Despite removing countless odd objects from ear canals, including a baby tooth, twig, pen, earring and pieces of plastic, Mr Raithatha has never had to remove Play-Doh from a patient’s ear.
“It was a rather large piece of Play-Doh that was completely blocking his ear canal. It had also been pushed quite deep into his ear,” he explained.
“I was able to perform microsuction to vacuum the Play-Doh out of his ear canal. There was no damage inflicted on his eardrum.
“I’ve never before removed Play-Doh from a real patient’s ear so it came as a shock.”
When the Play-Doh was sized up, it measured a huge 8mm across, and weighed 100mg.
It might have been a debut for Mr Raithatha removing Play-Doh from a patient’s ear, but it’s not the first time he’s used it in his clinic.
“Quite ironically, when I’m training other medical and health professionals to remove ear wax, I actually insert Play-Doh into the mannequin head’s ear to stimulate ear wax,” he added.
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