When I was growing up my dad was obsessed with making sure we washed behind our ears. He would always ask. I see now, I'm sending him this! He said he learned it from my grandma.
Pores of Winer (which is what this is) can appear anywhere from the waist up. They generally appear on people over 40, although they can show up as young as 20. They are basically harmless, but require surgery if you want to get rid of one.
What it is is the aftermath of an infection of the mastoid bone behind the ear. Mastoiditis can happen from untreated ear infection. The bone there has a lot of hollow spots that the infection can move into, and then won't go away on its own. So the infected parts need to get removed.
In the video, they're removing wound packing during aftercare while the healing process is going on.
The video is fairly cropped, but I recognise it. This takes place in Cambodia, probably in a remote area, and there are more kids getting the same thing done. The specialists come to visit and do a batch of treatments at once, and then later return for the aftercare. Which is probably also why the packing looks pretty grody.
No, it's not. When someone gets mastoiditis after an ear infection, the bone there needs to be removed. This some kind of wound packing they're taking out.
No. It's not. It's literally a dilated pore of Winer behind the ear. These can crop up anywhere on the upper body. And that is NOT wound packing. If you think that's what that is, you need to see an optometrist. There is no wound here.
A simple Google image search will show you that the substance they're removing is exactly what collects in every dilated pore of Winer.
At one point it shows several people having it done, and done outside. So, this is probably a place that doesn't have good access to hospitals or medical care and has to wait for the doctors to come around.
It can be removed, but only surgically. If they do not have access to such services (due to money or the area they live in) they probably have to live with it. It's not cancerous. Just a really shitty thing to have to deal with.
Yup they do. Having had one for a few years till I had pore surgically removed. The content would smell like really bad B.O. I always felt bad for the doctor who was draining it...
I had an in-grown hair on the back of my head which my then-girlfriend claimed she couldn't find. That little MF hurt if I rested my head just right, too. A year and a half later I felt an object on the back of my head, picked at it, and dislodged a black sphere a bit smaller than a pea. I showed it to her and told her where it came from, but all she said was, "gross." So, a partner might not be all the help they're cracked up to be.
That was never a pore in the first place. This is packing that was put in after mastoiditis made the surgical removal of parts of the mastoid bone necessary.
We cannot and must not adapt to meet our own needs friend, we must change society to meet them, otherwise my future granddaughters will also be adding pockets.
Do both. Adapting is why we are the dominant animal. How many clothing lines have been headed by the very folks who want pockets but we still see a lack of em?
@OP and all of the jerks who upvoted... May your loins be infested with the fleas of 1000 camels, because I will never unsee this and I made it 8 more posts without really seeing anything and imgur is ruined.
Not gonna lie, I'm rather disappointed the technician didn't take a little more time and care and at least make an attempt to get it out all in one piece.
Yeah, ripping it out would totally be worth the injury! "Sick vid bro!" "Yeah, I only got fired, blackballed, and sued into bankruptcy. Totally worth it!"
I kept thinking the same thing until the camera casually panned over to a half dozen other patients. looked like a packed clinic and the kid getting treated with tweezers must have been their only pair
A dilated pore of Winer (sometimes just called a “Winer’s pore”) is a benign skin lesion — basically a large, enlarged hair follicle (pore) that’s become filled with keratin (the same protein found in skin and hair).
It’s harmless, but some people remove it for cosmetic reasons.
”Worthless” to you maybe, Id rather have a quote from AI saying what the title of a post is referring to than ”But thats just a hole” and ”what the fuck” when browsing imgur.
It is informal.
I did not specify the size of the Winer pore when I wrote what it was to ChatGPT thats all.
If you have a hole the size of a penny behind your ear you should go to a doctor, obviously. Was the description misleading enough for you to not go see one?
No no, it is worthless to everyone, not just me, no one should be getting their facts from what a program thinks is what you want to be told, it is worthless, it has no value.
It's kind of wild what the body can handle even without modern medicine. It's almost like a separate machine from our minds that is just pushing to keep the heart beating and the lungs breathing
Anytime someone says "i trust my eyes" or "ill believe it when i see it" and they give off an air of fuckwit i tend to mention how the mind has to flip the "image" the eyes see. Similar things with hearing and how easy it is to mess with that.
Most tend to blurt something stupid or just glare. Lol
eppykaze
To the front page
quade
Is that a meteorite, or....
ThatSonOfaBitch
It's a meteowrong.
jdaniels57a
powerwagondontcare
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1MDlmY2RzcThuN3RrdG5rcjJqZ2R4cHZtaGhtOXgxeHNsdTRsM2tuMiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/CcNQI7CgP4P6pSrp4i/200w.webp
Turboslacker
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
My ear? Totally better. I can smell sounds, though
Exyr
Thats a weird way to smuggle in some hashish
toomanymemesandnotenoughmemeory
Thought you said heroin and I was like it’s a good way it keep a steady stream in the system lol
colinstu
that's what the balloons are for
QueefSlurper6372
So that's where Feta comes from.
ongabonga
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1bjFjZzA2NjNweGc3cWppeDEwY2IxamZkOHl4d2U1c2d2bGFmOXFmcyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/pVAMI8QYM42n6/200w.webp
isetprettygirlsonfire
When I was growing up my dad was obsessed with making sure we washed behind our ears. He would always ask. I see now, I'm sending him this! He said he learned it from my grandma.
bripi
that's not from not washing. that's an internal skin fuck-up that her body is doing to her. this isn't because she's dirty behind the ear.
isetprettygirlsonfire
Regardless, it still makes a funny joke, because my sisters and I always give my dad a hard time for his obsession with washing behind the ears
Acheron05
Did she try to spackle over the hole??
PaintedInGreen
the creature in the cave probably:
?1
icurays1
Sherpafish
Somebody send this to the Australian Drain Cleaning guy.
Saxytimes
I will now be obsessively checking behind my ears forever
CallMeCourierSix
Pores of Winer (which is what this is) can appear anywhere from the waist up. They generally appear on people over 40, although they can show up as young as 20. They are basically harmless, but require surgery if you want to get rid of one.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21796-dilated-pore-of-winer
abetteridiot
It's nothing of the sort.
What it is is the aftermath of an infection of the mastoid bone behind the ear. Mastoiditis can happen from untreated ear infection. The bone there has a lot of hollow spots that the infection can move into, and then won't go away on its own. So the infected parts need to get removed.
In the video, they're removing wound packing during aftercare while the healing process is going on.
abetteridiot
The video is fairly cropped, but I recognise it. This takes place in Cambodia, probably in a remote area, and there are more kids getting the same thing done. The specialists come to visit and do a batch of treatments at once, and then later return for the aftercare. Which is probably also why the packing looks pretty grody.
nailpounder
When was the last time I heard someone say grody?
yourelivingalloverme
Unanaxios
New hole unlocked!
mirrorz
That's not a pore. Thats a rotten lymph node.
VulpesIncendium
iamlegendinjapan
GuyleDoucheFieldReporter
THECosmosTerror
Right you are, Ken.
magical8ball
OrkenMork
That is not a pore!
abetteridiot
Correct. It's a hole left after part of the mastoid bone had to be removed due to mastoiditis. They're removing wound packing.
ThatSonOfaBitch
I read that in an Australian accent.
Sh1tMovieGroup
THIS is a pore!
Lokify
It's a space station?
CallMeCourierSix
Yes, it is. Just a very, very unusual one: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21796-dilated-pore-of-winer
abetteridiot
No, it's not. When someone gets mastoiditis after an ear infection, the bone there needs to be removed. This some kind of wound packing they're taking out.
CallMeCourierSix
No. It's not. It's literally a dilated pore of Winer behind the ear. These can crop up anywhere on the upper body. And that is NOT wound packing. If you think that's what that is, you need to see an optometrist. There is no wound here.
A simple Google image search will show you that the substance they're removing is exactly what collects in every dilated pore of Winer.
PaperinoVB
But why, WHY wait until it became so fucking big?
CheeseborgarSoop
Insufficient medical care in third world countries.
SometimesOthertimesAnytime
At one point it shows several people having it done, and done outside. So, this is probably a place that doesn't have good access to hospitals or medical care and has to wait for the doctors to come around.
CallMeCourierSix
It can be removed, but only surgically. If they do not have access to such services (due to money or the area they live in) they probably have to live with it. It's not cancerous. Just a really shitty thing to have to deal with.
More info: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21796-dilated-pore-of-winer
Trimule
BenderRodriguz1010
Sonic can read the words, but what the fuck is that??
Totallyscrewedinaustin
The comment just above yours defines what a dilated pore winer is.
BenderRodriguz1010
I found it. Thanks.
BenderRodriguz1010
So i*
I guess I gotta go fast?
redheadedrobot
I honestly thought this was a bit, go with it
BenderRodriguz1010
AllMaktAtTengilVarBefriare
The deep lore
SnailsAgainstTungstenSpheres
Ok but not like that
ThisIsNotTheBestUsername
Bet you that had a smell.
permissiontolosedenied
Yup they do. Having had one for a few years till I had pore surgically removed. The content would smell like really bad B.O. I always felt bad for the doctor who was draining it...
RainierCamino
Fuck it had to itch like crazy
Nightcaste
Based on it's location, I'm pretty sure it had a fucking *sound*
Imayhavesharted
Whelp that's enough Internet for today.
QueefSlurper6372
Smells like 7 layers
cosonfused
like an ogre?
anegativecreep
That beaver eats Taco Bell.
Pchopsammiches
I'd dip that
Shouldhavethoughtthisthroughabitbetter
Bet you it had a taste too.
FleaTron
The bleu-est cheese to ever bleu!
Archid0rk
LankyBootyGriswald
TupacAintDead
Why bro? Why?
poscduke
ThisIsNotTheBestUsername
please im begging
elbowdeepinawhateverthatis
philmoregraves
Terrible day to have eyes
LowlevelRebel
Jail.
Sh1tMovieGroup
Perkunas687
https://imgur.com/lzJSQ8p.jpg
MeowMachine12
You stop that
Shouldhavethoughtthisthroughabitbetter
Prolly like a really crumbly blue cheese.
yousaidsmyc
Atrocious, thank you for that.
HandBananaTonight
BabeAfett
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1cWY5amRleTEwdnRwMG85OGN2eGhmc3ozbXl3OXlkOTk0NnMzcmppeSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/QV5vp1BYenfCE/200w.webp
Dickslover
RabbitRevenge
this is why its important to have a partner. hey babe look at this pimple behind my ear. does it look bad?
m0problems
Great, now I hope I never get a pimple behind my ear..
RalphDesmond
Nah, Dear. Let’s deal with it in 10 or 15 years. 👍
UncleMartha
I had an in-grown hair on the back of my head which my then-girlfriend claimed she couldn't find. That little MF hurt if I rested my head just right, too. A year and a half later I felt an object on the back of my head, picked at it, and dislodged a black sphere a bit smaller than a pea. I showed it to her and told her where it came from, but all she said was, "gross." So, a partner might not be all the help they're cracked up to be.
RabbitRevenge
clearly you dodged a bullet, she was not the one. a real GF wants to watch your squirm in pain as she pops the shit out of that thing!!
StewedTomaters
access to healthcare* fixed it for you
OohDaLolly
As someone who regularly used to get a pimple in the same spot behind their ear, this is horrifying.
killertomato842
i mean, at that point it's not even a dilated pore... That's just a hole
AntaNce
it's a fukken garage, jfc
revasseur
That's a whole other dimension.
MeowMachine12
A smelly weird gross dimension
iambutton812
Just use an ashtray jeez
BobTheBogus
She could use it as a secret wallet or a drug stash. No one would think to look there
naomiMoonBeast
That's where spiders lay eggs
obnoxiouslaughter02
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1NzAzOXJtZ2VvbGRjZ25ta2JsaHpxMW04ZmN2a3ZtMHg1cmRkNGt1MSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/bJqVdhxHE9bOw/200w.webp
abetteridiot
That was never a pore in the first place. This is packing that was put in after mastoiditis made the surgical removal of parts of the mastoid bone necessary.
OBM1
Where is the function to move this to top comment?
MadameTiffany
After looking through a lot of pictures with the keywords relating to "mastoiditis", yeah, I fully agree.
CeoHuntingSeason
Put...put your...
Magpiebones
That's a child.
CeoHuntingSeason
Wtf no she is not, until they are taking hormones or something that makes the look way older
nanomaus
No!
CeoHuntingSeason
My micropenis finally found a female hole it can fully fill and your answer is "No!"??? I'm gonna be honest, you sound kind of ableist right now
HelloMyNamesInigoMontoya
That's more or less what I was gonna say. She basically has a built in pocket now
Nintendobama
To get snacks into the cinema
ChippinStrata
For secret snacks.
BabeAfett
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1dnlteTBtbnBzZmd5N2k0MjAwNThuZTc1aGxnemp2MmQ4bDhocGNzZCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/fQJSYE2Qy6OtXfwEuf/200w.webp
RacecarIsRacecarBackwards
imgurianitarian
Well we women are always moaning about not having enough pockets!
datphone777365
Can always learn alil sewing and make some....
imgurianitarian
We cannot and must not adapt to meet our own needs friend, we must change society to meet them, otherwise my future granddaughters will also be adding pockets.
datphone777365
Do both. Adapting is why we are the dominant animal. How many clothing lines have been headed by the very folks who want pockets but we still see a lack of em?
IgnisInvictus
Let the front page deal with this one.
EstoyPoopis
You bastards
ZOMGNO
@OP and all of the jerks who upvoted... May your loins be infested with the fleas of 1000 camels, because I will never unsee this and I made it 8 more posts without really seeing anything and imgur is ruined.
Firestart3r
... and then there are whole Youtube channels to nothing but this and pimple popping.
Sidewaysgts
What did we do to you
ButtTrumpett
Man fuck all this. I’m out - signed front page user
Khanamana324
Exist. Because if I have to witness this, then you do to.
Akule
You know what you did.
TrilobiteSushi
Not gonna lie, I'm rather disappointed the technician didn't take a little more time and care and at least make an attempt to get it out all in one piece.
bripi
Yeah that technitian was absolutely fumbling this whole thing. They sucked!
CallMeCourierSix
It was larger than the opening. There was no way it was going to come out in one piece.
ACENILC
Right!? The last piece he pulled out was as big as the opening.
ZOMGNO
I wanted them to whip out a small dustbuster vacuum. Or one of those dentist ones.
WackyWavingInflatableArmFlailingTubman
I would just suck that shit out like snake venom
iusedtodream
The end of the pointy stick had a spoony scoop. Use the spoon! So frustrated!
hockey4mal8
There has to be a better tool for that job.
emu314159127001
Yeah, ripping it out would totally be worth the injury! "Sick vid bro!" "Yeah, I only got fired, blackballed, and sued into bankruptcy. Totally worth it!"
mastertmo
My thought exactly. Tweezers exist.
reddles
My internal voice said, FFS GET THE TWEEZERS! before I scrolled down.
CaveCanem
I kept thinking the same thing until the camera casually panned over to a half dozen other patients. looked like a packed clinic and the kid getting treated with tweezers must have been their only pair
mastertmo
Which begs the next question: how do you get this many people all with the same thing? Is it contagious???
datphone777365
Medical deficit gona cause shit? Wuuuut.
Escapist83
what the fuck
MrOne2
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1ZWZldmhoOHZpNnJnZ3J4empyM2xwaG9xY2x5azBqemZwb21kMGkxdSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/KZSfpGB54r74AEqBBU/200w.webp
ArchMagos
This is why you should scrub behind your ears in the shower.
rabidang3ls
Bro. What the fuck?!
datphone777365
Human body is weird.
jadanks
mastoiditis
DubhIainn
Thank you. I came here to say this.
dbox
That's crazy
NightOwlRally
What a horrible day to have eyes.
PrincessWasabi
Clockworkdancerobot
Perkunas687
https://imgur.com/xEsaGqz.mp4
abrakadaBRO
UncleShrimp
"Hey, Honey? I want to try something new tonight."
ChippinStrata
That made me laugh. Thanks.
lizardbones
you made me read this with my own eyes
UncleShrimp
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1eGJuM2IycWs3cnRrNDQ3em0zemh1ajFhMXNqZzBzemRoMWZoNm83bCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/FA283sfWzeFgcDrbzn/200w.webp
TheOGPooner
What do you think it tastes like?
hjortmar
The name comes from Louis H. Winer, the dermatologist who first described it in 1954.
Morgan96
Thank you! Was just wondering that last night
CeoHuntingSeason
It definitely should have been discovered by Louis H. Disgustingshitgrowinginyourhead
instead
EstoyPoopis
Before him, everyone that tried to describe it couldn't stop barfing.
hjortmar
A dilated pore of Winer (sometimes just called a “Winer’s pore”) is a benign skin lesion — basically a large, enlarged hair follicle (pore) that’s become filled with keratin (the same protein found in skin and hair).
It’s harmless, but some people remove it for cosmetic reasons.
EmptyHouseBurglar
As opposed to a poor weiner
AboutasSnappyasaZipper
I'm not a doctor, or maybe I'm misunderstanding your meaning, but I feel like that thing needed to be removed for more than just cosmetic reasons
datphone777365
Likely did cause her some issues with hearing or headaches. But that shit will eventually close up, its weirder still that its not an open wound.
VinnieJonesDiary
Please note the above information came from an AI chatbot and as such is utterly worthless.
hjortmar
”Worthless” to you maybe, Id rather have a quote from AI saying what the title of a post is referring to than ”But thats just a hole” and ”what the fuck” when browsing imgur.
It is informal.
I did not specify the size of the Winer pore when I wrote what it was to ChatGPT thats all.
If you have a hole the size of a penny behind your ear you should go to a doctor, obviously. Was the description misleading enough for you to not go see one?
VinnieJonesDiary
No no, it is worthless to everyone, not just me, no one should be getting their facts from what a program thinks is what you want to be told, it is worthless, it has no value.
Ardilla05
Winer’s nostril more like
TsubakiTragic
you're joking... that thing has a tax file number and paid more than US$50k in taxes last year!
Kovalski89der
thanks for the info, but i've another question, HOW THE FUCK TAKES SOO MUCH SPACE THERE!?
datphone777365
Body is weird. Humans push babies out of their bodies...
iamthemurray
It's kind of wild what the body can handle even without modern medicine. It's almost like a separate machine from our minds that is just pushing to keep the heart beating and the lungs breathing
datphone777365
Anytime someone says "i trust my eyes" or "ill believe it when i see it" and they give off an air of fuckwit i tend to mention how the mind has to flip the "image" the eyes see. Similar things with hearing and how easy it is to mess with that.
Most tend to blurt something stupid or just glare. Lol
NovemberAlphaMikeEcho
Don't sit there and tell me that mass is harmless. No doubt open holes like that have a high chance of becoming infected.
ImGettinSatisfied
You know what that hole smells like
Racealistic
Back of a playstation?
TrilithonStone
Bellybutton dirt?
hjortmar
Youre right, if asked the followup question that it is 1-2cm in width it replied that it may cause issues and should be looked at by a dermatologist.
A Winer is usually just a couple millimeters in width.
TrilithonStone
I say, sew that thing up...
etherbunny41
... what do you mean "it replied"? "If asked"? I don't understand.
hjortmar
Im a dummy, I asked AI
TheAlteredWitch
Sounds like ChatGPT to me
50m31AW
I assume they asked chatgpt or some shit, based on that wording
ChippinStrata
He asked the pore