Ear Infection remedies

Ear infections are usually treated with antibiotics. It occurs due to the presence or growth of bacteria or virus in the ear. Earache refers to the inflammation of the middle ear or the outer ear. It usually occurs due to cold and is most common in winters and spring months. Middle ear infections are one of the most common childhood problems. The middle ear is a small pocket of air behind the eardrum. You have a middle ear infection when germs get into the middle ear and the area fills up with fluid (pus), which contains germ-fighting cells. When the pus builds up, your ear starts to feel like a balloon that is ready to pop, which can really hurt. When you go to the doctor, he or she will look into your ear with a special flashlight called an otoscope. With the otoscope, the doctor can see your eardrum, the thin membrane between your outer and middle ear.

Home remedies for Ear Infection

1. Take some garlic oil and put 3 drops of grape seed extract in it and then put it in the ear. It will help to relieve the pain in the ear.
2. Take Vitamin C to help boost the immune system and fight infection. Zinc reduces ear infection.
3. Grind a few Holy basil leaves and extract some juice. Apply 2 drops inside the ear.
4. For ear infections they recommend Tylenol or Ibuprofin and t ake you hair dryer on LOW and hold it far from his ear. Just enough to feel the warm air.
5. 1-2 drops of warm olive oil in the ear cures irritation of the ear.
6. Put two pieces of garlic in two teaspoonfuls of mustard oil and heat it till it turns black. Allow it to cool and put 2-3 drops to the side of ear. This is another simple and effective home remedy for earache.
7. Take a teaspoonful of sesame oil and add half a clove of garlic to this oil. Heat it on a flame to make it a little warm. Put four drops of this oil in the open ear. Lie on this side for ten to fifteen minutes. Then turn over and put the oil in the second ear also. Lie on this side too for ten to fifteen minutes. This is one of the effective home remedies for earache.
8. If the ear is red, hot and painful specially after exposure to cold temperature, use Aconite, this homeopathic remedy is excellent for ear infection.
9. If the cheek of the same side of the ear affected is red and the person is unable to tolerate the pain then take chamomilla.
10. Try 1 part hydrogen peroxide to 3 parts water and put drops in ear to stop the discharge from ears.
11. Put few drops of garlic juice into the infected ear. Use blow dryer from about 12 to 15 inches from your head, this will remove any water trapped in the Eustachian tube. Put some olive oil on the warm spoon; put 2 to 3 drops of this in each ear. Put few drops of lobelia extract into the infected ear and rub it gently. Wash your ear using colloidal silver, it is a natural antibiotic. Slightly warm one teaspoon of juice of the mango leaf and put it into the infected ear drop by drop.
12. For bad ear aches/infections squeeze lemon juice in your ear, keep it in for a few seconds, then let it drain out.