A swimmers ear home remedy to resolve this painful situation usually overnight without a trip to the doctor or the pharmacy. A must-have while on vacation if you plan to do any recreating in lakes, the ocean, or swimming pools.
Swimmers ear, or otitis externa, is an infection in the canal between the outer ear and the eardrum. It is very painful and is usually triggered by water that enters the ear canal during bathing or swimming.
It can also be caused by cleaning the ear too vigorously or by an infected hair follicle.
Some people seem to be more prone to swimmers ear than others. In my own family, one of my children seems to be particularly susceptible to this type of infection after swimming. The others experience no problems at all even if swimming for the same length of time in the exact same place.
As a result, genetics seems to play a role in the predisposition to this type of infection. The size of the ear canal is possibly a contributing factor as well.
The conventional approach for resolving swimmers ear involves a trip to the pharmacy to obtain over the counter ear drops. While these products help to free trapped water in the ear, they do not always resolve the infection. The drops definitely don’t help the pain accompanying the condition either.
If the infection does not resolve with over the counter medication, a trip to the doctor would be necessary to obtain antibiotic ear drops that can also help numb the pain.
Fortunately, it is easy to use a swimmers ear home remedy to resolve the situation. No trip to the doctor or to the pharmacy is necessary for those who choose to resolve the situation holistically.
Here is the swimmer’s ear home remedy that you need to have in your home medicine cabinet at all times.
Colloidal Silver: The Safe, Nontoxic Alternative to AntibioticsÂ
Colloidal silver is a product that is easily and cheaply obtained at many health food stores. It consists of tiny silver particles suspended in a liquid.
If the budget is tight, an alternative is homemade garlic ear drops that costs literally pennies to make.
The remarkable antibiotic nature of silver has been known for centuries. In the early 1900s, the founder of Searle Pharmaceuticals, Alfred Searle, wrote in his book The Use of Colloids in Health and Disease:
Applying colloidal silver to human subjects has been done in a large number of cases with astonishingly successful results…it has the advantage of being rapidly fatal to microbes without toxic action on its host. It is quite stable. It protects rabbits from ten times the lethal dose of tetanus or diphtheria toxin.
In the 1970s, Dr. Robert O. Becker at Syracuse Medical University began to intensively research colloidal silver. Â He discovered that silver not only kills bacteria, but it actually killed bacteria that were resistant to all known antibiotics with no undesirable side effects!
Moreover, unlike prescription antibiotics, pathogens do not become resistant or immune to silver over time.  It even has the ability to eradicate antibiotic-resistant microbes like MRSA.  This is because colloidal silver doesn’t poison the microbes like antibiotics do, but rather smothers them by adhering to their cell walls and inhibiting their enzyme production.
Using Colloidal Silver as a Swimmers Ear Home Remedy
Using colloidal silver for a swimmers ear home remedy is so ridiculously easy, you will be relieved.
All that is required is a few colloidal silver drops dripped into the affected ear using a standard eyedropper. Within a few minutes, the pain usually begins to subside, and within a few hours the infection as well.
Having the child lay on her side for about five minutes after the colloidal silver enters the ear canal works well to allow the solution to begin its work killing the pathogens that are causing the infection.
After a few minutes, the ear can be drained by simply turning the head in the opposite direction. A towel gently pressed against the ear to catch the liquid is a good idea. Do not use this treatment in conjunction with an ear wax removal candle.
My youngest child recently suffered from swimmers ear to the point where the infection even caused her to spike a fever. Â Just a few drops of colloidal silver in her ear almost completely resolved the infection overnight. I used a second dose the following morning to ensure complete recovery by the end of the following day.
Make sure to use no more than 3 drops of colloidal silver in the ear canal when using as a swimmers ear home remedy no more than once or twice a day.
The reason for caution is that using too much can actually negatively affect the beneficial bacteria in the ear canal as well and might even trigger a sensation of vertigo temporarily.
If you find yourself using colloidal silver more than occasionally inside the ear, try using allicin infused garlic oil instead. This will provide similar anti-microbial benefits without any damage to the tissue flora.
Colloidal Silver Works for Other Types of Ear Infections as Well
Colloidal silver also works incredibly well for other types of ear infections too.
Unlike antibiotics which only work on bacterial infections, colloidal silver is a broad-spectrum antimicrobial. This means that it works against viruses and fungus too, not just bacteria.
Regardless of what is causing the problem, colloidal silver as a swimmers ear home remedy or for other types of ear infections almost always will resolve the situation quickly and safely without any drugs or antibiotics.
In the rare case where an ear infection or swimmers ear does not respond to colloidal silver within a day or two, be sure to seek the professional advice of a trusted healthcare provider as soon as possible.
References
Colloidal Silver: Healing Ear Infections the Safe, Easy Way
New Guidelines for Safe Usage of Colloidal Silver
More Information
4 Ear Infection Natural Remedies
Why I Never Swallow Colloidal Silver
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We use a mixture of Tea Tree Oil and Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil for ear pain. Works every time.
what is that mixture tricia?
thanks, char
Is colloidal silver same as the sovereign silver? I recently used the sovereign silver for my sons ear pain/infection, I used a few other things too, so not sure what worked, but I’m sure it helped since the next day he was fine. So, are the two exactly the same?
Thanks for the info about ear pain and silver! We have also used silver as a pain reliever for a sore throat. Just gargle with it and the pain would subside. Great stuff!
Love silver. Have used it many times on ear infections with puss oozing out. 1 or 2 times and its over! Pink eye too.
Makenna, How much in each eye? What brand and what ml? I have 118.28ml on hand. I’ve got a granddaughter w/ pink eye right now. Thanks!
Back in January you wrote about ear candling and stated that since not allowing pasteurised dairy in your home you had never had ear infection issues in your children. What changed since then, that might have had an impact, that now you have one child who gets them when swimming?
That post was actually over a year ago. Yes, pasteurized dairy contributes to middle ear infections … totally difference from swimmers ear which is external.
Nothing has changed … my children don’t get the typical middle ear infections. The chronic ear infections that plague many children that cause them to need tubes in their ears is frequently caused by from consumption of pasteurized dairy and/or modern refined wheat in processed foods. Sugar plays a role too.
Gracious, I wish my family had known about this during my childhood. My sibling and I constantly suffered from painful ear infections, and I will never forget the time when blood ran out of one of my sibling’s ears because of the severity of the infection there. We were so sick and stressed, and my parents didn’t know, then, not to trust medical doctors and pharmaceuticals. All the ear drops and eye drops they bought for us….
Anyway–I did not know colloidal silver could be used this way, so I am very grateful for this information. Thank you for sharing.
Alicia Walsh
Isopropyl Alcohol or “rubbing alchohol” is a deadly poison. It penetrates the skin and crosses the blood brain barrier instantly carrying toxins and pathogens into
areas of the body where they cannot normally travel. Dr. H. Clark gives us the microbiological explanation in her books. One should never use isopropol
or “rubbing alchol in any form. I raised my children putting olive oil that had a freshly
cut garlic clover soaked in it any time their ears seemed to be troubling them and after
swimming at amusement swim parks. Because silver kills all bacteria including beneficial-I save the silver for dire situations that cannot be handled by garlic/oregano/raw milk.
If you need a substitute for isopropyl-use grain alchohol.
Nikki, what exactly is the mixture of olive oil and garlic? I have read many times to do this but have never seen any measurements and how much in each ear. I’d appreciate your feedback. I always have garlic and organic EVO on hand.
I actually bought this for the first time last week. I found that the colloidal silver is sold in mixtures of parts per million. The bottle shown is 10 ppm. The one I bought was 25 ppm. Some bottles at the store were something like 225 ppm. I understand the low ppm is what is recommended for ears and eyes.
Good point. Thanks.
I have seen 1 person who used his own mixture of colloidal silver and his skin was tinted blue -but he took it ORALLY and mixed his own batches –seems like a good reputable already made product would be preferable for ear use or oral use -it does work so well