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re: How to cure an ear infection
Posted on 7/8/18 at 10:09 am to LSUSUPERSTAR
Posted on 7/8/18 at 10:09 am to LSUSUPERSTAR
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So putting acid in your ear works just as well as an ear drop that has an antibiotic and steroid in it?
You do understand the article references the updated guidelines from the American Academy of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery Foundation, which is world's largest organization representing specialists who treat the ear, nose, throat, and related structures of the head and neck, right?
LINK
Again, it's difficult to find something more comical than a couple of people whose formal wear is a fishing shirt and wranglers argue with the foremost experts in the world.
Oh, and the answer to this:
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So putting acid in your ear works just as well as an ear drop that has an antibiotic and steroid in it?
according to experts who conducted clinical trials, is apparently "yes".
This post was edited on 7/8/18 at 10:11 am
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Posted on 7/8/18 at 10:10 am to Macintosh504
Posted on 7/8/18 at 10:15 am to Allyn McKeen
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My g/f had one last weekend. She went to the clinic and got a steroid shot and took antibiotics, and it cleared up right away.
My ear started bothering me a few days later. I poured hydrogen peroxide in my ear and let it bubble for a couple of minutes. My ear stopped hurting shortly afterward.
Taking steroid shots and antibiotics to cure an ear infection is akin to swatting a fly with a sledgehammer.
A very many ailments can be treated or cured with cheap and easy home remedies but if you choose to, a doctor will certainly take your money if you want to give it to him.
People love to romanticize over the Hippocratic ideals of health professionals but doctors offices and hospitals are first and foremost businesses created to generate profit.
This post was edited on 7/8/18 at 10:24 am
Posted on 7/8/18 at 10:16 am to nola000
I had an ear infection so bad that barely touching my ear lobe hurt bad. I went to the ENT. He told me to make a 50/50 solution of rubbing alcohol and white vinegar. I did that 3 or 4 times a day and it healed up a day or 2 later.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 10:18 am to Macintosh504
Get someone to pee in it
Posted on 7/8/18 at 10:18 am to hashtag
You had a real doctor not a used car salesman in a white lab coat.
Try to keep him.
Try to keep him.
This post was edited on 7/8/18 at 10:20 am
Posted on 7/8/18 at 10:21 am to Macintosh504
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How to cause an rear infection
Posted on 7/8/18 at 10:22 am to Macintosh504
Go to Pet Smart... get amoxicillin. Same stuff, different color pill. Works fine
Posted on 7/8/18 at 10:24 am to Macintosh504
50/50 Mixture of vinegar(acetic acid) and hydrogen peroxide couple of times a day works pretty well for a mild swimmers ear (otitis externa). If it persists then you'll need, antibitoic drops +/- wick placement if it's bad.
Adults don't really get otitis media(that's what kids get), but if you do, you'd either oral antibiotics or an ear tube placed.
Adults don't really get otitis media(that's what kids get), but if you do, you'd either oral antibiotics or an ear tube placed.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 10:35 am to Puffoluffagus
Adults get sinus infections, which can lead to ear infection (ear ache/ears feeling clogged) because of all the drainage. A simple trip to your doctor or urgent care, get a Z pack and/or a steroid shot (your choice). Gone in a few days.
Some of you seem to overcomplicate the frick out of something so simple. Costs you a copay and whatever the insurance doesn't cover on the shot if you decide to get it.
Some of you seem to overcomplicate the frick out of something so simple. Costs you a copay and whatever the insurance doesn't cover on the shot if you decide to get it.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 10:39 am to RealityTiger
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Adults get sinus infections, which can lead to ear infection (ear ache/ears feeling clogged) because of all the drainage
Is a misnomer. Adults can certainly get fluid in the middle ear space after having a URI. But it's non-purulent/non-infective and doesn't need abx to to treat. Will either get better with doing nothing or can be fixed quick with an aspiration/tube.
Again rarely does an adult get a true purulent otitis media.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 10:48 am to Macintosh504
Go to urgent care clinic get meds
Posted on 7/8/18 at 11:20 am to Macintosh504
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How can I fix this ear infection without having to go to the doctor? Don’t feel like driving there and waiting.
So, to avoid sitting in a waiting room for a couple of hours, you're willing to sit in pain and risk your hearing and hope that the infection doesn't get worse and notice your brain sitting right there (not that there's much for it to destroy)?
Posted on 7/8/18 at 11:32 am to Puffoluffagus
Ok, so an upper respiratory infection. Not an "ear infection", per se. But there's still infection in your sinuses, which can certainly lead to ear pain. My ENT told me so.
The ABX don't treat the ear, they treat the infection in the sinus cavities, which helps with the ear pain.
Feel better?
The ABX don't treat the ear, they treat the infection in the sinus cavities, which helps with the ear pain.
Feel better?
Posted on 7/8/18 at 11:35 am to TigerstuckinMS
quote:Some people are so anti-doctor. They don't think rationally. They'd rather avoid, avoid, avoid, because they thought they read something online that said to do _________. Just go to the fricking doctor already.
So, to avoid sitting in a waiting room for a couple of hours, you're willing to sit in pain and risk your hearing and hope that the infection doesn't get worse and notice your brain sitting right there (not that there's much for it to destroy)?
I have to deal with that issue with my wife. She'll act like the world is ending and complain for a week, take a day or two off from work, etc. And then she goes to the doctor and what do ya know? Starts getting better within a few days.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 12:47 pm to Macintosh504
Inner ear or outer ear? Totally different
Outer ear infections like swimmers ear, isnt usually bacterial. Inner ear infections are usually bacterial related in stuffy noise and sinus infections which swell passages. These require an antibiotic. Swimmers ear requires anti fungal.
Outer ear infections like swimmers ear, isnt usually bacterial. Inner ear infections are usually bacterial related in stuffy noise and sinus infections which swell passages. These require an antibiotic. Swimmers ear requires anti fungal.
This post was edited on 7/8/18 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 7/8/18 at 1:12 pm to Macintosh504
Pine sol on a q-tip. You’ll smell good too.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 1:15 pm to Macintosh504
A melted wax ring to fill the ear canal stops the air from hitting those sensitive areas.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 1:21 pm to Macintosh504
The ENT I visited earlier this week said he preferred patients use a home remedy of half vinegar and half rubbing alcohol. Three times a day.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 1:24 pm to Puffoluffagus
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50/50 Mixture of vinegar(acetic acid) and hydrogen peroxide couple of times a day works pretty well for a mild swimmers ear (otitis externa). If it persists then you'll need, antibitoic drops +/- wick placement if it's bad.
This.
My "ear beer" recipe is equal parts isopropyl alcohol, vingegar, and hydrogen peroxide.
I keep some mixed up in an old contact solution bottle and use it at first sign of something brewing in there (usual just tingling or itching.) Happens periodically after diving in questionable water...
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