Original Doctor Mom Otoscope, otoscopes - CLAMHELL kit
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List Price: Our Price: $19.92 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Category: Health Care See more product details |
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Customer Reviews of Original Doctor Mom Otoscope, otoscopes - CLAMHELL kit
Customer Review: Buy the LED one instead
Summary: 3 Stars
I accidentally ordered this one, and immediately returned it. It's not that it's fundamentally a bad product, but I intended on getting the LED otoscope. This one has an incandescent bulb, which not only drains batteries 10 times faster than an LED, but has a lifetime on the order of hours.
For the technically minded, the LED otoscope appears to have a DC-DC boost converter, so it should still work even when the batteries are very low.
Customer Review: Good but needs improvement
Summary: 3 Stars
It's good for the price, but the tip of the specula is too thin... causing contact with the ear to be a bit painful. This can be easily fixed by providing the tip of the specula with a smoother/rounder surface.Customer Review: Great concept, simple to use, but poor execution
Summary: 1 Stars
The item is beautifully simple and a great product in theory. But it illuminates just about a few millimeters too short to be of use. I tried it on DH and he tried it out on me, but we got similar results. You could see the inner ear canal clear as day and get more clarity on earwax than you would ever hope. But the eardrum itself looks like a slightly illuminate white thing just barely out of reach of the otoscope, no matter how far you stick it in (and quite honestly -- it's not comfortable nor recommended if you push it that far). I thought maybe it was because it was that our adult sized ear canals were just a bit too long and tried it out on my sleeping 2 year old. I had the same problem, but compounded by much more earwax in her ears.
I really had high hopes for this product. :o(