. Nursing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat . cause it to ache for hours and a sleepless night willfollow. The best apparatus for irrigating the ear at the bed-side is either a fountain syringe or an irrigator. Thisshould be hung at a height of 2 or 3 feet above the levelof the patients head. The flow is steady and gentle,can be easily controlled, and has not the painful featuresof bulb syringes, which squirt large air bubbles into DISEASES OF THE MIDDLE EAR 209 the canal, and cause loud explosions, which are mostdisagreeable to the patient (Fig. 48). An old syringe that has been u
. Nursing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat . cause it to ache for hours and a sleepless night willfollow. The best apparatus for irrigating the ear at the bed-side is either a fountain syringe or an irrigator. Thisshould be hung at a height of 2 or 3 feet above the levelof the patients head. The flow is steady and gentle,can be easily controlled, and has not the painful featuresof bulb syringes, which squirt large air bubbles into DISEASES OF THE MIDDLE EAR 209 the canal, and cause loud explosions, which are mostdisagreeable to the patient (Fig. 48). An old syringe that has been used for other purposesshould never be employed when a new one can be pro-cured. Both the tube with the small tip and the bagshould be thoroughly cleaned and boiled before Fig. 49 Fowlers irrigator. After each irrigation the apparatus should be takendown and dried, wrapped in a clean towel, and setaside for the next irrigation. Fowlers bell glass irrigator (Fig. 49), which notonly cleanses by the flow of water through it, but has asuction effect as well, and keeps the solution from wet-ting the patient, has recently come into favor with many 210 EYE, EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT NURSING surgeons as a useful apparatus for use with tlie glass return-flow irrigating tip (Fig. 50) is anothersatisfactory device which has been in use for are made in different sizes and can be obtainedat almost any pharmacy. When the ordinary tip is used it should be long andnarrow, considerably smaller than the meatus, so as toallow ample room for the return flow. When the tip isplaced in position, barely within the meatus, whichshould be straightened in the same manner as when theear is syringed, the stream should be directed, not against the drum, but a
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