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To: jonrick46

I do the hydrogen peroxide &/or rubbing alcohol in ear daily. Undiluted. Put some on q-tip & make sure it is a generous amount. can use eye drop. It dries up any excess moisture helping to prevent fungus growth ... and if you have ever had a bad ear fungal infection you will really be committed to this regime. It tends to also help keep down bacteria and other nasties that can cause you problems. My GP told me this about 30 years ago when both my son & I had reoccurring ear infrections/problems. Never an incident for either of us since


98 posted on 02/12/2010 11:44:31 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is...Tell the storm how big your God is!)
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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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