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
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Josh N’ Courtney Smiley this is some really neat information.
We just use coconut oil here. Just a dab in the the ear that is hurting….. A friend of mine introduced this method to me and it works great! 🙂
Thank you for sharing! We usually use organic oil of oregano diluted 1:5 with unrefined organic extra virgin olive oil. It also works amazingly well and every single time.
So timely! I just found out an hour ago the reason for my daughter’s fever was an ear infection! And Dr sent antibiotics to the pharmacy! I don’t want to use them. I was gonna search for a natural solution when I saw this on my feed! Thank you!
Valerie Lefebvre Collins not if you just use a few drops externally as described in the post. If you use too much you can cause temporary vertigo which is why just a few drops is recommended for only a day or two.
Hello Sarah,
I have heard a lot about nano silver and am wondering what your opinion is on it versus colloidal silver. Anything you have to share would be appreciated. Thanks!
It’s the #1 standby in our house.
We have used colloidal silver in our children’s ears for years, and it always works. I think once or twice, my baby (now 2.5) has had an ear infection with pus and for whatever reason the silver did not work. But I still go to it as a first remedy!!
silver accumulates in the body.
Narrow ear channels are an inherited trait…and often cause ear infections.
I’ve been told by multiple friends in the medical field including doctors, nurses, and pharmacist to avoid using colloidal silver. They see people all the time with ailments after using it. It can cause skin tissue damage (your skin can turn blue or gray), seizures, brain damage, headaches, stomach problems, and it can also have bad interactions with both OTC and prescription medications. They have all said that there are much better and natural probiotics availble that are more readily accepted by the cells within your body. I think the use of running alcohol and peroxide along with using certain essential oils is a much safer path. You may be able to use colloidal silver without issue but I would definitely do research before taking it and especially giving it to kids. After getting this advice from friends, I did some digging and threw out what we had in our house.
I don’t see a problem with using CS for pinkeye, toothaches (holding a few drops against the sore area for 10 minutes) or ear infections, as these more “topical” applications could never cause the problems you described. I’ve also had excellent results with each of these in my family.
I don’t usually use it internally, as I prefer to let colds, fevers, etc., run their course (I’ve never had a serious bacteria problem that garlic couldn’t whip, either), but I’ve also looked into these concerns over the years because I was curious. Here are several guidelines anyone ought to consider when taking CS internally:
–You should NOT take it with chlorinated water. Manufacturing of colloidal silver with salt or chlorine present is a BIG problem. A naturopath I know stated that every freak case with gray skin was tied to one or both of these (usually in production, as in cheap foreign or homemade CS made by someone who didn’t know to use plain water). Many of those cases also involved huge or too frequent doses.
–Smaller particle size is important. If it’s small enough it will do the job and not deposit where it shouldn’t, right? Look into that.
–Colloidal Silver kills bacteria that do NOT like oxygen (anaerobic), not so much those that like it (aerobic), but some experts recommend NOT taking it with food, thus allowing it to enter the bloodstream quickly near the beginning of the digestive process, rather than later and more slowly with food.
dosage of silver (ionic or colloidal) based on body weight, calculation guidelines ~ http://www.silversafety.org/calculation.html