[pct-l] How to remove ear bugs

[Reinhold Metzger]

Perhaps it is time to cover our ears with Mosquito netting.
Like Ground Pounder Bill says  ''be prepared''.

JMT Reinhold

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Marcia wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Reinhold Metzger" <reinholdmetzger at cox.net>
> To: "PCT" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Marcia,  you probably could have  avoided  carrying that bug for 100
> miles by tilting your head and pouring water into your ear.
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> The bug would then have to choose between drowning and crawling out and
> they usually choose the later option.
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> Dr.Reinhold
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> The first idea we had was to try a photon light hoping the bug (it turned 
> out to be a moth, too big to turn around and too stuck to back out) would go 
> to the light. It fluttered which made me very dizzy. Second idea was water 
> which resulted in more fluttering. Last idea was olive oil  which killed the 
> bug, stopped the fluttering, but didn't slide it out the ear canal. I was 
> happy to have the fluttering stop.
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> The Dr in Yellowstone flushed it out in pieces using thin catheter tubing 
> with water pressure. He said that mine was the third bug-in-ear that he had 
> flushed out that season.
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> The only tubing that we carried (we now have a steri pen) was that tubing on 
> our water filter which is probably too thick to use for flushing.
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> I hope this doesn't happen to other hikers. But if it does, I hope they have 
> tubing of some sort to use.
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