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On that note, I'm curious to know what kind of camera was used given it must have been tiny, and focus was unusually good given the varying focal length.
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Saturday, 8 February 2014
On that note, I'm curious to know what kind of camera was used given it must have been tiny, and focus was unusually good given the varying focal length.
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Essentially, a trusted adult (like a mother) places her mouth over the child's mouth as if to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. While pinching off the unaffected nostril, the adult than blows gently into the child's mouth until resistance is felt caused by the child closing the glottis. At that moment, the adult gives a sharp explosive exhalation to deliver a strong puff of air that passes up into the nose and out the unblocked nostril. If successful, this air puff will also blow the foreign body out the nose as well.
If the adult blow's air when the child's glottis is open, air will just go into the lungs rather than up the nose.
Prior to the procedure, the child is informed that the mom will give the child a "big kiss," hence the name of this procedure.
Now... does this technique actually work?
According to one meta-analysis, it works about 59.9% of the time.
The way I consider it... it can't hurt to try before using instruments to manually remove the nasal foreign body. A "mother's kiss" is certainly a more comfortable and familiar approach for a child versus the alternative.
However, one warning point... the child should be calmly breathing during this procedure. If the child becomes hysterical during the procedure, the child might strongly inhale through the unblocked nostril and potentially suck the foreign body (if small enough) down into the lungs making an unlucky situation into a medical emergency.
Another point for those uninformed... do NOT use this procedure on ear foreign bodies. It will NOT work. The ear canal is a closed container with no inlet or outlet for any air pressure produced by a "Mother's Kiss." In fact, trying to perform this procedure on the ear may cause a ruptured eardrum and even permanent hearing loss.
Reference:
Removal of Foreign Bodies from the Nose. NEJM 1985; 312:725.
Efficacy and safety of of the "Mother's Kiss" technique: A systematic review of case reports and case series. CMAJ 2012. DOI:10.1503/cmaj.111864 (full length pdf)
Thursday, 29 March 2012
Right after the kiss, a person can suffer from immediate and potentially permanent hearing loss along with other symptoms including ringing, sensitivity to sound, sound distortion, and aural fullness.
How or why does this occur?
With a kiss, a strong suction is created within the ear canal that pulls on the eardrum which tugs on the middle ear bones that can lead to turbulence within the inner ear.
Infants are particularly susceptible to this condition given their ear canals are SO small and the suction created by an adult kiss over the ear can be so strong.
There are other variations of this type of ear/hearing injury.
Barotrauma of the ear can lead to similar type issues due to sudden pressure changes from flying, parachute jumping, diving into water, SCUBA, snorkeling, etc.
Getting slapped over the ear can do the same thing as cochlear ear-kiss injury, but in reverse. Rather than suction from a kiss creating strong negative pressure within the ear canal, a slap over the ear creates sudden strong positive pressure.
At times, such pressure changes can get so severe that the eardrum can rupture.
Source:
Innocent 'kiss of deaf' can cause permanent hearing loss. MSNBC 3/29/12
The kiss of deaf: Four-year-old's big smooch left her mom with partial hearing loss. Newsday. June 7, 2008
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