Name: ENT Doctors Debunk 11 Ear And Nose Myths | Debunked
Uploaded: 2022-10-07T17:12:31.000Z
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to stop a nosebleed, pinch the bridge of your nose and tilt your head back.

That's the exact opposite of what you should do.

It's okay to use Q tips to clean your ears.

Taping your mouth shut will stop your story.

I'm an otolaryngologist, head, neck surgeon.

I'm an associate professor of otolaryngology at N.

I've been in practice for over 20 years and I am dr Jackie jones.

I'm an associate professor of otolaryngology while Cornell medicine and I've been in practice for almost 31 years now.

We're specialists and ear, nose and throat.

So our field actually the real title is Oto rhino laron, golly gee photos, rhinos, nose larynx, isla Realogy.

So we sort of think of it as one continuous passage from your nose down into your lungs.

So everything is interconnected and today we will be debunking myths of your nose and throat.

But if you're generating one of those big snow, you don't want to hold it in, all of that pressure is going to back up into your ears, into your throat, into your lungs.

We're breathing in so you're breathing in pollen.

You're breathing in germs, you're breathing in particles and dust that builds up in our mucus.

And then a sneeze is the reflex to get that material out.

But sneezing is overall a good thing because you're clearing out your nose.

But again, cover up cover up, it's okay to use Q tips to clean your ears.

So this is a box of cotton tip applicators and there is a warning on here.

I don't think I can see this, Jackie, I brought a magnifying glass just to demonstrate.

There is a warning label on there and it says, and I quote, do not insert swab into ear canal but see how small that is.

It really should be in big bold letters here, but we're telling, you don't do it.

So this is a plastic model of an ear, this is called the pinna and this is the outer ear and you can use a cotton tip applicator to clean the outside the little grooves.

You can see some people do have as their waxes coming out, they can clean that outer portion, that's okay.

But you do not want to go putting this in here like this because you're gonna push your wax in, you're gonna braid the surfaces and you're gonna cause damn some of the things that I recommend on cleaning the ear is drop some alcohol in the air and again, as long as you don't have any ear problems or hole in your ear, you can use hydrogen peroxide that tends to bubble a bit but can be used.

And a warm wet washcloth that you wring out well and used to clean the outside of your ear.

We really don't want you to over clean your ear.

Because no matter how clean you are, those bugs could climb into your bed first of all.

Their private so cockroaches, spiders they don't want but every once in a while they'll meander in.

I've seen actually a spider who's made a web inside of someone's ear canal.

And the thing about the cockroaches they go in but they can't turn around once they're in there there's not enough space for them to turn around and get out.

So what they do is they keep clawing forward against the eardrum and I don't know if you've ever seen cockroaches legs under a microscope, but it's like hairs and their hooks.

And so then they're scratching the eardrum and as they're scratching the ear drum, the sound that's generated is horrendous and the pain that's generated is horrendous.

So the person starts scratching at their ear and their ears start bleeding.

Ripping their ear off and so I immediately know from across the room cockroach in the ear.

So what we do is we try to calm the person down.

And then you can put rubbing alcohol in the ear or mineral oil in the ear or some liquid that will actually kill the bug and then you can suction it out cockroaches about the grossest thing that we see.

But you can get flying insects in the same sort of thing.

But you know you don't have to be phobic, it's pretty gross but we don't see it that frequently.

But if it happens to you at home, try not to panic and just put rubbing alcohol or mineral oil in your ear and then go to the doctor, stop a nosebleed, pinch the bridge of your nose and tilt your head back.

And this is not an offense to the school nurse.

They're classically told pinch up here and hold your head back and that's the exact opposite of what you should do.

First off the nose has a tremendous blood supply, the blood supply to the nose has five arteries that meet up here in the front.

It's called kissel box plexus and Kissel box plexus have arteries and veins that meet together.

So if you pinch the front of your nose The sidewall against the Septum and hold it for five minutes and you stay upright and lean forward a little bit so that you can, if some of the blood is going down the back, you can spit it out.

But if you pinch your nose for five minutes you will stop 90% of nosebleeds.

Absolutely think of it as if you had a cut on your skin, you see the blood, what do you do?

You put pressure on pressure stops bleeding because it allows the flow to stop and then your own clotting mechanism to kick in, taping your mouth shut will stop your story.

Okay, this another one I'm ripping up, never tape your mouth shut.

I don't know how that's out there because when you're asleep you need to breathe and let's just say your nose gets blocked and congested and you've got your mouth taped shut, how are you breathing?

So never snoring comes from many different places, not just snoring from your mouth.

Snoring comes from the turbulent flow of air through the respiratory system.

And that turbulent flow can come from your nose, it can come from your mouth, you can come from lower down in your throat.

So just taping your mouth closed is not going to fix that problem for a lot of people.

It's very dangerous and not recommended, only loud music causes hearing loss.

How about anything loud can cause hearing loss.

There's different ways you can get damaged.

So let's say a firearm or a firework near the ear.

Then there's a cumulative effect where you might have noise that say 90 decibels or 100 decibel over time, that also will start harming those cells.

So I'm speaking about 35 to 40 decibels right now.

The more war some losses, that cumulative loss, because people don't even realize it's happening.

You know, you go on the subways, you walk around in the city can be really loud, construction sounds, factory noises, sirens, all of those things can cause hearing loss.

So, I think of loud noise as if you're looking up into the sun, you don't do it right.

Same thing, loud noise blasting in your ear.

It harms those little inner hair cells and causes permanent hearing walls.

Once it's gone, it's gone, we cannot do really anything to get your hearing back once it's gone.

So, thinking about your hearing early on in life is an important factor.

All right, well, many people swim, it's a very common human activity.

Not everybody gets an ear infection, but there is an entity called swimmer's ear, swimmer's ear is when you get an overgrowth of either bacteria or fungus in the outside ear canal, one of the main culprits from swimmer's ear is over cleaning of your ear.

When you look at the ear canal, this is the outer ear, your canal is about an inch and a half long.