Onebyone

I woke up with a painful ear ache last night and on into this morning. I have a slight cold too. I don't know if it is an infection or just from the cold. I remembered my great grandmother's remedy for ear aches that she used on all her kids and my grandmother used on her kids. I tried it this morning and it worked. My ear pain has stopped. I'll go to the Dr. in the morning but on Sunday, no place to go but the ER and I'll be there all day. My grandmother would crack open a peach pit and mash the kernel into a paste. Add a little warm oil or water and put a four or five drops in the ear. She never threw away a peach or apricot pit. Said it was valuable medicine. I always have saved a few of the pits thinking it couldn't hurt but never really used them until today. I'm a believer. It stopped the pain until a Dr can be seen to get it checked.

PABerard

We always used equal parts Vinegar and rubbing alcohol when the kids were little and got ear aches at night. Soak a cotton ball and place it in the sore ear. It at least got us through the night. Why does it always happen at night and the weekends??? Glad you feel better~

Onebyone

Vinegar and alcohol mixed is great for swimmer's ear. That is what the Dr. told me to use on my kids after every swim. It prevents swimmer's ear too.

lynnie

I also heard of a clove of garlic in the ear. it's the old medicinal cures that seem to work well. glad you're feeling better. just think for thousands of years, that the medicine used was the ways and it workd. something to be said about them for sure.

cashs_mom

I've used garlic oil in the past. It does work well. I've also tried grapefruit essential oil with mixed results.

Boston1954

My mother used little cloth bags of salt. She would heat them in the oven, and then wrap them in a towel. Put it next to my ear, and poof, pain is gone.

Tartan

​Glad you found relief but I keep over the counter polysporin ear and eye drops in the house at all times.

coopah

Most people lie relatively flat as they sleep at night, so the 'goo' does not drain as easily as during the day when we're upright. That was what I ws told...it's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

Ditter43

I guess a lot of things work...we always used sweet oil. I still keep some handy just in case!

jitkaau

"Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear and see a doctor as soon as possible" is the advice I have always followed. A good practice is also to blow one's nose upon rising and a couple of more times during the day - especially if one is a child prone to infection, one nostril at a time during the process.