What size needle/syringe should I use to drain ear?

They used to get compression on a cauliflower ear by sewing two buttons on it one on each side of the injury site. :cry:

 

I read recently you can get the same effect by using two strong magnets i.e. sandwich the ear between the two magnets and they will keep the compression through magnetic force... though I suppose if they are too strong you may end up looking like dumbo.

 

Laminaria Digitata me! Even with a local...that would hurt. Sounds like something Army Medics would try.

Sounds novel, though not sure it would be much less painful than the above or as efficacious as a dressing. I was mucking around after a Physics A-Level class once trying to create the strongest possible bar-magnets I could, until two joined with my middle-finger nestled between them. In fact, they were that strong, they fracture it.

 

James Herriot writes about doing it to an injured labourer who insisted on treatment and refused to accept that James Herriot was a Vet not a Doctor.

 

Oarweed? of all things Frodo Oarweed.

 

No thanks we can make dashi soup with the oarweed, you can keep your herpes.

 

My Cauli was the result of heavy training for my first No Gi comp. I was rolling intensly 6 days a week. I rarely train with that intensity and when I do I tend to train smarter and roll smarter.

So I wouldn't say they are under the same strain, because that experience prompted me to be more technical in the way I approach training/sparring/rolling currently. I think a lot of contact sportsmen have these injuries as a result of a lifestyle that doesn't allow them to take a week of for things like Haematoma's or at least as a result of a culture that see's cauli as a natural part of training, rather than something that could be treated with medical help or even prevented.

 

Apologies. No excuses (well okay then: insert highly amusing excuse).

Was Oarweed chosen for its use in Toothpaste, Iodine (given their cleaning properties) or fertiliser? Could I be wrong and it was simply arbitrary?

 

I'm quite partial to cyanobacteria. Of course, any sort of attachment to it is particularly unhealthy.

 

I don't mind being beaten up by a woman so much (some chaps even enjoy it); but I draw the line at being 'poisoned'.

Once again: apologies. It was a slip of the finger and my dog ate the ToS...imagine buttons being sutured to either side of your ear though. Don't know about you, but my ears like my testicles, are very precious to me.


PS I really did read the ToS, honest Gov.! And I don't have a dog.

 

You didn't ever visit the Marine Biological station on Great Cumbrae just outside Millport did you?
I love the Victorian Fish tanks in the public bit there.

 

I spent every summer on the island when I was little.