Before going to bed, I just thought I’d mention the old vinegar in the ears trick seems to be working! The right ear is actually all better now. Just a little itchy, so I’ll treat it a couple more times tomorrow. The left ear is still annoying with that full and underwater feeling and somewhat painful, but it’s much better than it was. It’ll probably take a few days of lying on my side for five minutes every so often with an ear full of vinegar to clear it up, but it’s definitely showing improvement already.
I’m so glad! Go white vinegar!
I keep telling people there are miracle drugs hiding in their houses pretending to be inexpensive and common kitchen goods. We didn’t always have a pill for every real or imagined problem, and people somehow managed to heal them all the same.
I had the same thing a year or so ago. Telling people about the vinegar thing got me a lot of perturbed looks.
A lot of people think if it doesn’t come from a pharmacy and cost a lot of money then it’s some kind of voodoo hippy wishful thinking, which is a shame. There’s lots of natural stuff that works as well, and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg and might even be sitting around their house already.
I get lots of looks when I suggest stuff, but sometimes someone actually listens to me and then freaks out when it really works. I never suggest anything I haven’t personally done to myself and seen actual results. The vinegar thing for ear canal infections definitely works, if you catch it early enough. I’ve only gone to the doctor once for this (the first time it happened), and I can’t actually say the drops he gave me worked any better … and they were definitely more expensive than an 89 cent bottle of vinegar.