Ear infection home treatments?

Question

I have ear infections fairly commonly; when I was younger my doctor considered tubes in the ears. (Usually its an inner ear infection; or it was swimmers ear) Now I am older, and no longer on my parents insurance, and not really wanting to go to teh doctors every few weeks for an ear infection I simply cannot afford it. Is there some way to treat these at home?

Answer 1

Hi Cryz No More

Here are some ideas to use.

Here are some ideas to use to heal the condition.

Treat Both Ears: The simple, old-fashioned aids are sometimes very fast in giving relief. Always treat both ears, even if only one aches.

1. Onion: Lightly bake a large onion, cut it in half and while warm (not hot enough to irritate the area), bind one half of the onion over each ear. Bandage in place and hold bandage on with a nightcap, white skullcap, etc., and leave on all night.

2.Camomile: Use a fomentation over both ears of three parts of camomile and one part of lobelia. Take two ounces orally (a wineglass full) each two waking hours. Leave the fomentation on the ears all night. (Cover fomentation with plastic or oiled silk, etc.).

3.Mullein: Use three to six drops of mullein oil in both ears several times each day. Insert it upon retiring for the night, and, as before, plug the ears with cotton. Place a fomentation over the ears all night of three parts mullein and one part lobelia.


1.Garlic: When my little girl had an earache I put a piece of fresh garlic in her ear and it was better by morning. The previous alternative was to go to the doctor and pay a lot of money for penicillin.

Best of health to you

Answer 2

I know this sounds weird and it could be an old folk remedy....

I used to get ear infections when I was a kid and my grandmother would take a small piece of a cottonball and soak it in oil...cooking oil, it doesn't matter what kind and then put it into my ear, not too deep but deep enough so that some of the oil could get inside of the canal and perhaps break up the wax. Give it a try, it couldn't hurt. It always seemed to help me whenever my ear would ache. If my own kids ever have an ear ache I will sure try. Good luck!

Answer 3

Ear infections are NOT something you want to play with.
I am now 60. I've been having ear infections since i can remember, like every other year since i was like 10. The doctors finally told me a year ago that's called "chronic ear disease."
So I sympathize.
HOWEVER, I am one who highly prizes my hearing! If that sounds a bit over-stated, I was born with super-acute hearing, and I have always been able to hear things others can't hear.
About 5 years ago, I started into what turned into a super-virus ear infection, and I was deaf in the one ear (left) and roughly 50 % deaf in the other ear for some 6 months.
It scared the crap out of me.
I got the hearing back, but one never knows.
Short version: if you must go to a charity clinic, take care of yourself!

Answer 4

Take hydrogen peroxide and dilute 4 drops with 4 drops of warm water pour into ear let it bubble until it quits, when finished dry out ears good and add some warm sweet oil in your ear with a cotton ball ,This is what a ear specialist told me to do for my children God bless

Answer 5

I don't know about infection seems to me you would need an antibotic.
But for ear aches try sweet oil

Answer 6

You'll think it sounds funny, but try some sweet oil or olive oil, warm it by placing it in a small bowl of hot tap water, then put a few drops in your ear. you can also put a cap full of peroxide down in your but you must wash it out with two or three caps of water.