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What is your favorite earache remedy?

 
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Earaches: garlic oil, steam baths, colloidal silver . . .  what is your go-to remedy?

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Hi S,
I would highly recommend a chiropractor. Our kids used to get earaches all the time when they were younger. Taking them to a chiropractor to make some adjustments, helped to straighten things out to allow the liquid to drain from the ear, allowing the body to deal with the infection more easily. Often, just a few hours after the appointment, the kids would not be in pain any more. And the swelling was gone in a day or two. Personally I use garlic ear oil or ibuprofen when needed.

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In my family we use pieces of garlic wrapped in gauze. Works okay. I met someone who claimed that the best treatment is warming vinegar and pouring it in the ear. That sounds scary to me, but they said it worked.
 
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If the ear ache appears to be coming from an infection or feels like swimmers ear I like to lay down on a heating pad with the affected ear pointing downward towards the pad. I have had some FUNK come out and felt better. I assume the heat melted buildup wax/crud and helped clear out the canal. I'd recommend having a cloth between the ear and the heating pad.

I'm glad I don't get ear infections like I used to do when I was a kid. Those are never fun.

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I havnt tried it personally but I hear a mullen infused oil works very well, they usually add garlic too.  I can tell you that smoking mullen kicks the hell out of respitory infections so it doesn't surprise me at all that it works for ear infections too.

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Back when I was on swim team, coach recommended drops of vinegar and alcohol for “swimmers ear.”  Better as a preventative than as cure for a serious case though. “Swimmer’s ear” is fungal infection.  The vinegar lowers ph to make ear canal inhospitable, and alcohol helps the drops evaporate.

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/home-remedies-suffering-from-swimmers-ear/

I don’t expect this works for other causes of earache, like viruses, though.

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My favorite is olive oil infused with mullien flowers. Years and years ago, pharmacys used to sell what they called sweet oil, my prefered pharmacy was phasing it out. When asked, the pharmasist informed me that sweet oil was just extra virgin olive oil, so I grabbed some for the kitchen. With either of these, a small amount is poured into the ear canal. Stay in a position that keeps it from running out for 5 to 10 minutes. Drain excess out. If I have a problem in one ear, I go ahead and treat the second one too. it is a much more pleasant eperience if the oil has been warmed to skin tempurature.

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When my youngest used to get the occasional earache, I used to crush a clove of garlic, let it sit for 10 - 15 minutes, then warm it in a pan with about 1/4C extra virgin olive oil. Strain out the chunk of garlic, have her lie down with the offending ear facing up, fill the ear with the oil, and apply a rice bag (for ears, I made one by simply filling an old, clean baby sock with rice and tying it closed with cotton kitchen twine), warmed as much as she could stand it. Usually, it was 'all better' by the time the heat was gone from the rice bag.

Now, I'd use either mullein or garlic, whichever I have on hand, or both, if possible.

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