Home Remedies For Ear Aches
Sharon Hopkins
Earaches can be slightly painful to extremely painful. An ear
ache is caused by a fluid buildup due to some infection or
pressure build up in the middle ear. Swimming, bathing,
allergies or even cleaning your ear with cotton bud can lead to
discomfort, bacterial growth and infection in the ear.
Most common cause of the earache is due to plugged ‘Eustachian’
tubes (a small tube connecting the ear to the nose). If and when
your Eustachian tubes become blocked possibility of bacteria
buildup or infection, fluid will gather resulting in a painful
earache. Increase in pressure leads to pain, hearing loss,
itching and swelling elsewhere in the ear. To avoid ear aches
and infections, one should keep the Eustachian tube free of
pollutants and irritants and regularly clean the nasal passage.
Try some of these home remedies for earache
The greatest pain reliever is warm, moist heat around the ear.
A warm compress-such as a towel rung out in hot water and
pressed against the ear-brings the most immediate relief.
After you take a shower or bath; blow dry your ears instead of
rubbing them. Soothe the ear with the warm setting of a
hairdryer.
Puncture a piece of garlic and pour the juice in the ear.
Garlic being a natural antibiotic will help to take the pain
away.
Put some mineral oil (oil derived from a mineral source, such
as petroleum, because it is inexpensive and rarely causes
allergic reactions) in your ear before going in the water. Wear
earplugs while swimming and avoid swimming in dirty waters.
Warm few drops of olive oil in a spoon. Using the dropper, put
2-3 drops in each ear after the oil has cooled down. This will
help relieve pain.
Excessive earwax can also cause hearing problems and aches. Put
a capful of hydrogen peroxide in each ear, let it set for a
minute or two, and then let it drain out. One drop of alcohol
after bathing can also prevent excessive earwax.
A hot water bottle wrapped in a towel also makes a comforting
pillow for an aching ear.
Press a dual-purpose first-aid gel pack that you can warm up in
hot water or the microwave on your ear. It will make you feel
better.
Warm up an oven-safe plate, wrap it in a towel, and rest your
aching ear right on it. The plate should be warm and
comforting, not hot,
Warm mineral oil may soothe a sore ear. Use a dropper to drip
the oil in and gently pull the outside of the ear to make sure
it goes down.
If wind bothers your aching ears, wear a scarf when you're
outside, or put cotton in the opening of the ear, but avoid
pushing the cotton down from where you can not retrieve it with
your fingers.
If your ears hurt when the pressure changes, especially during
descent and landing during an airplane flight, chew gum or suck
on candy. The chewing or sucking will activate the muscles that
send air to your inner ears, when you hear your ears "pop,"
you'll feel better.
If chewing doesn't work, close your mouth, relax your cheek
muscles, hold your nose and blow one nostril at a time gently
until you feel relief.
Bugged by a bug in your ear? Flood the ear till full of alcohol
using the ear dropper to kill the bug, then gently fill the ear
with water from an ear syringe.
The reader of this article should exercise all precautions
while following instructions on the recipes from this article.
Avoid using if you are allergic to something. The
responsibility lies with the reader, not the site, and the
writer.
Sharon Hopkins manages
http://www.home-remedies-for-you.com providing information on
home based natural cures for most common ailments and health
problems. Earaches are a painful thing; try some of these home
remedies for earaches.
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