Causes and Home Remedies for Earache
September 15, 2009 by admin
Filed under Home Remedies
Earache is a condition which affects both young and old alike. The pain is because an inflamed ear or an infection in the ear. This condition is medically known as otitis.
Causes of Earache:
Earaches are born out of ear infections or inflammations caused by viruses, bacteria, and fungi. The Eustachian tube faces a lot of pressure, due to infection, as a result of which ear starts paining. Other causes for earache include tonsillitis and sinus conditions, more so in a majority of children.
Home Remedies for Earache
1. A very common herbal remedy is to extract juice from basil leaves by grinding them, and use them as ear drops.
2. Garlic cloves boiled in water can be crushed, and some salt can be added. Use this as poultice and place it on aching ear.
3. Garlic being an antibiotic can relieve pain, if its juice is poured in drops into the affected ear.
4. When earache rises in elevation, chewing gum can contract muscles and relieve pain
5. Hydrogen peroxide drops can also relieve earaches.
7. Warm up a few tender mango leaves, and extract its juice, for using it as ear drop. Similarly fenugreek seeds warmed in either linseed or mustard oil, filtered and used as ear drop can completely cure earaches.
8. Garlic cloves in sesame oil should be warmed by heating it on a small flame. Four drops of this in one ear can relieve you, provide you stay on that side for at least 10 minutes, similarly turn over to the other ear, and put the oil in that ear as well. Again stay in that position for about 10 minutes.
9. Garlic oil grapefruit seed extract and eucalyptus oil can be mixed and used as ear drops repeatedly during a day, to relieve you from the pain.
Earache is not itself is an ailment, but it is only a symptom of other ailments in ear, revealing that there may be an infection or inflammation in the ear, which is causing pain. Apart from the above natural remedies, you should also find out the underlying causes for the ache, and then treat the cause than the symptoms. Earaches can become serious if not treated timely, and you may lose the sense of hearing completely. Hence it is necessary to treat the condition, especially the underlying causes which have brought about the ache. If infection is found, do not let it get it into the stage of inflammation as it will only aggravate the pain. Earache will be intolerable in case of inflammation, and instead of antibiotics, it is the natural home remedies which can be of great use even for aches caused due to inflammation within the ears. Ear drum is a very sensitive organ, and thus, while pouring drops of various extracts, you should concentrate on not damaging the ear drum, through very warm or hot extracts.
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