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To: DollyCali

“I do the hydrogen peroxide &/or rubbing alcohol in ear daily.”

I, for one, would be a little careful with the alcohol. Obviously it must work for you, since you are using it daily.

However, a scuba instructor friend of mine got to dumping alcohol into his ear canal to “dry it out”. What he didn’t bargain on was that he developed a perforation in his eardrum for whatever reason (never determined if it was from the drying effect of the alcohol, or he just ruptured it on a dive). Whatever the cause, he dumped alcohol into that ear, and instantly found himself on the floor with the fastest, nastiest case of vertigo any of us had ever heard of. Of course, he’d just saturated the area BEHIND his eardrum with rubbing alcohol. That is always a bad thing.

He ended up getting hauled off in an ambulance to the emergency room over that maneuver. Poorer, but wiser, he stopped using alcohol in his ears.

Just a cautionary tale.


104 posted on 02/12/2010 11:54:55 PM PST by Habibi ("It is vain to do with more what can be done with less." - William of Occam)
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To: Habibi
I, for one, would be a little careful with the alcohol.

It's recommended by the Divers ALert Network DAN for otitis EXTERNA, not otitis media. It should be applied with a cotton swab. I can see why your friend had vertigo.

112 posted on 02/13/2010 3:22:59 AM PST by Sarajevo (You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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