Ouch!
I get a lot of wax in my ear (hence the frequent infections when I swim), and I actually was banned from using q-tips several years ago. Doc at the time said it would just pack the wax in tighter.
Ouch!
I get a lot of wax in my ear (hence the frequent infections when I swim), and I actually was banned from using q-tips several years ago. Doc at the time said it would just pack the wax in tighter.
~ Susie
"Keep plugging along. The finish line is getting closer with every step. When you see it, you won't remember that you are hurting, that anything has gone wrong, or just how slow or fast you are.
You will just know that you are going to finish and that was what you set out to do."
-- Michael Pate, "When Big Boys Tri"
Take this for what it is worth, which may not be much. When I swam team as a kid, we used something called 'sweet oil' in our ears. Both before and after swimming. I only remember having swimmer's ear once.
Course, this was a couple of years ago.![]()
Ear infections are the one time I take antibiotics without a second thought. Quite aside from the discomfort, if left untreated they can lead to hearing loss - I can afford any more of that!![]()
Drink coffee and do stupid things faster with more energy.
A few weeks ago I actually saw sweet oil on the shelf at Walgreens while I was looking for something else. I checked the label on it out of curiosity, and it only has one ingredient... Olive oil!
And they wanted quite a bit of money per ounce, compared to the cost of olive oil in the cooking section.![]()