There are a few things that may be on your bingo card when seeing an ear, nose and throat doctor for what may seem at first glance to be hearing problems.

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What’s probably not there — and what one woman says her ENT discovered when examining her ears — is a clump of dog hair.

In a video that has attracted more than 1.5 million views, content creator Karrah (@karrah_peden_tram) reveals a new fear to many viewers. She recounts her experience when an ENT removed a large clump of dog hair from her ear canal immediately after digging out a large clump of earwax.

“I’m literally mortified,” she says in the video. “I just came back from the ENT. I went there because I thought I was losing hearing in my ear. So he goes in, and he looks at both of his ears, and he starts first with the one that was fine. And he says, “Oh, wait a second,” and starts digging in there, out comes a huge black mass of earwax. It’s like it’s disgusting and huge and it looks like it shouldn’t fit there.

An unexpected find

That ball of wax came out of what was supposed to be her “healthy ear,” she said, leaving her unprepared for what would happen next.

“It was healthy ear,” she said. “I was like, oh, gross, but cool. And then he moves on to the next one, and he says, “Okay, there’s still some earwax on it, it’s actually stuck to the eardrum, so it’s going to take a minute.” »

The doctor then removed the earwax from Karrah’s “problem” ear.

“It’s very painful. Then he pulls this out, just as disgusting – much more painful though – and then he says, ‘No way,’” Karrah remembers. “And then he says, ‘Oh, you’re not going to believe what I’m going to come out with next.'”

She certainly didn’t expect him to pull out a big clump of dog hair, she said:

“So I’m dying inside, thinking it’s a bug, there’s a fucking bug in my ear,” she says. “(He) takes out tweezers, and it was so painful. It pulls really hard, and it’s right on my eardrum. A huge clump of dog hair. And he said it was like someone put dog hair in my ear and then stuffed it down the canal. I can’t.”

@karrah_peden_tram Everyone should go get their ears checked and see what treasures are hidden inside. #ent #ears #earwaxremoval #cerumen #newfearunlocked #fyp #fy ♬ original sound – Karrah

The Daily Dot contacted Karrah via a TikTok direct message regarding the video.

What is the correct way to clean your ears?

In general, the safest way to clean your ears is not to put things like cotton swabs or tweezers in your own ears. This task is best left to the professionals.

There are several gentle manners to clean their ears, including using a damp cloth to wipe the outside of the ear canal, soaking the ear with a mixture of warm water and mineral oil, hydrogen peroxide or saline solution to loosen and remove earwax buildup.

For those who think they might have a larger buildup, a healthcare professional can irrigate your ear and use tweezers to remove any potential blockages, as described by the poster.

Viewers sympathize

Some viewers commented on the video saying that the poster was basically living their dream, as they vigilantly monitored the health of their ears and found no gross but interesting blockages.

“I use q-tips all the time and have had my ears checked but they never find anything and it’s disappointing because I want the dramatic moment of being able to hear much better than before,” wrote one commentator.

“I’m embarrassed to admit that I watch ear cleaning videos on TT and YouTube,” said another. “It’s as addictive as popping a pimple. Now I also look at horse and cow hooves (Ferrier). I’m surprised that he “pulled”, that they irrigated.

“My husband had to go get his ears cleaned and I set him up a schedule for a day when I could go, then I told the doctor how excited I was, so he showed me everything that he had removed,” another user recalls. “10/10.”

Several other viewers said they worked in an ENT office and had seen similar things coming out of people’s ears, or had a doctor who shared observations with them about the contents of patients’ earwax.

“I work in an ENT clinic, we see ALL KINDS of things in people’s ears… I’ve seen two cases of dog hair being hit, a cockroach on the eardrum, craft materials, sticks, stones …the ear is a wild place,” he said. commented.

“My kids’ pediatrician likes to guess what kind of dogs you have by the dog hairs he sees in the kids’ ears lol,” shared another.

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