What Is the Doctor Looking For When He Uses An Otoscope or An Opthamaloscope?
You sit patiently on the exam table waiting for your Doctor to finally open the door and ask how your feel. Of course you tell him, “Not to good.” So he proceeds to listen to your heartbeat and feel your glands to see if they are swollen. Next he grabs the otoscope off the wall, puts on a probe cover and starts looking. He looks at your inner ear canal for inflammation indicating an infection. Just make sure the doctor changes the probe cover before putting the probe into the other ear. Otherwise the other ear might become infected as well. The ear should be clear of ear wax otherwise the doctor might compact the wax as he put the probe into the ear.
