Swimmers Ear Relief

Vinegar For Swimmers Ear

A number of natural health practitioners suggest vinegar in various forms as a home remedy or preventive measure or swimmers ear. Here are a couple of possibilities. 

Apple cider vinegar and swimmers ear There's reason to believe this helps restore the PH balance in the ear. Some people suggest combining it with a few drops of rubbing alcohol, but others say the alcohol stings too much and they simply use water. You can also do this as a preventive measure against future cases of swimmer's ear.

Regular distilled white vinegar can be used as a remedy where swimmer's ear is already in progress. Use 2-3 drops of full strength white vinegar every two hours .

Another remedy you might try is a 1 to 1 mixture of vinegar and warm water. Put four drops in the ear three times a day for three days.

With all of these remedies, you can use a clean eyedropper bottle, tilt your head and pull your earlobe to get the mixture into the ear canal.

Once again, as mentioned in other articles on swimmers ear on this website, your doctor may want to prescribe antibiotics. But it appears vinegar has some value in swimmer's ear relief, assuming you use it with discretion and a measure of common sense.

Preventing swimmers ear is, of course, preferable to treating it. So medical professionals recommend that you wear swimming ear plugs whenever you go in the water - even in pools that you believe are clean and free of germs.