What’s this in child’s ear? (Photo)

[2019Dancerz]

Hi, noticed this in 6 year old’s ear just now. Is this what wax looks like? To be honest it looks a bit like some popcorn (which we do have in the house) but ds claims no knowledge... Don’t want to embarrass myself at minor injuries if this is what wax looks like!
His other ear isn’t like this.
Thanks!;

Looks too regular in shape to be popcorn

Glad it's out now! Hope you all get some sleep!

So what was it?

...and is there an explanation of how the mystery object got in there?

Is it...a piece of Burns Night haggis???

Glad it's out!

Does anyone else have this advert appearing at the bottom of each page? Hilarious product placement 😂

But what is it?? It does look like a tooth but I think that is the blood throwing me off.

Where’s the video of it coming out????

Jeez, Mumsnet has changed!

No, mine's some football team or other.

So what is it?!

This reminds me of when Dnephew shoved a bean up his nostril to 'smell it better'. We were not going to A&E at 9am so we lent next doors cat and basically smothered DN with it to make him sneeze (allergic). Worked a treat.

Sorry not deliberately making you wait! He’s refusing to sleep and watching the Lion King instead. Haven’t the heart to send him away.
A couple of people guessed correctly (unlike me!) it is a polyestyrene ball, such as you get in a beanbag. A story has now emerged about him being pushed over onto a beanbag at school yesterday (could be true? But a bit too like those stories of men “falling” onto a vacuum cleaner )

Or onto a loo brush!

Ha brilliant! Worth asking school about the falling element of the story (could be covering for a friend?) - thinking about it, if it was that well lodged in I’d say it was pushed in! but either way I’m glad it’s out and you did the right thing getting it done by professionals, with the blood on it I wouldn’t have thought it wise to have a bash yourself and cause unnecessary trauma.

Glad you got him sorted, even if we didn’t get a video and it wasn’t pus.

my sister was a triage nurse and once dealt with a man who "fell" onto an entire candle LIGHTBULB. still makes me grimace.

A beanbag bead that won't come out with tweezers? Seems odd, they're usually pretty squishy.

Never mind - all's well and you made it back from A&E before midnight which is a joy!

I remember a nurse once saying she had dealt with a man who had 10" long remote control right up his arse. RIGHT IN! He had 'sat on it' apparently.

What makes me laugh is they expect people to believe it.

I'll never forget reading a copy of the Nursing Times as a young staff nurse and there being a story on what had been removed from rectums. The content of a tool box was the most shocking. Xrays included in the article as proof. Oranges were popular in a&e. Bottles, root vegetables. I wonder if it's still available in the NT archives online...?

Falling into a vacuum cleaner 🤣🤣🤣

Ah good old google:

Management of retained foreign bodies and rectal sexual trauma. - Nursing Times
https://www.nursingtimes.net › 204150.a...

One of the most intriguing reports, cited by Irizarry and Gottesman (1996), describes

how the contents of an entire toolbox were found at autopsy ...

You have to subscribe to read the article but there it is.

My DD once had a foam number 3 in her nasal cavity. It came out when she sneezed 😂

I heard once that a lady said a carrot got stuck after falling onto the vegetable patch - it came out peeled!!

OP what happened? I'm far too invested in this!

OP has replied up the page a bit :)

Glad it wasn’t a bug, or pus!