Originally Posted by melinda-w
A natural antibiotic that I have used with all 3 of my children and many nieces and nephews is GARLIC OIL CAPSULES. Just poke a hole in end, squeeze out on spoon, wave match under spoon 2 or 3 times, pour into ear slowly, place cotton ball in ear, go to bed. Should be better next morning if really bad may need to repeat next eve or two. Has worked every time.
I agree! Since we found this out we have never gone to the Dr. for ear infections. I was never quite sure if the children had ear infections (but they always got better quickly using garlic drops) until I had one of my own. Garlic drops worked like a charm. But it doesn't work for swimmer's ear. For swimmers ear the dr. told us that the medication that they give is basically vinegar to change the ph in the ear canal. The swimmers ear bacteria cannot survive then. So I guess the cure depends on what the cause of the ear ache is.