It’s been some time since I’ve had the chance to give you all a story from our ENT department, so I’ve decided to tell you the story of Lukoba, a 6 year old girl from Lusaka.  I sat down with her mother, Edith, who told me that last February, Lukoba had put cotton wool in her ears to clean them.  She thought she had completely removed the cotton wool.  Unfortunately, two weeks later, Lukoba started complaining of pain in her ears.  She was also having trouble hearing out of her right ear.  “I was really very worried, and I wasn’t sure what to do,” said Edith.  Edith checked the inside her daughter’s ears and noticed something white in her right ear.  Mother and daughter quickly headed to their local clinic, where nurses removed the remnants of the cotton wool and flushed out her right ear. Read the rest of this entry »