Treating Ear Infections With Garlic


by Donovan Bryan - Date: 2010-08-11 - Word Count: 401 Share This!

The ear infections are often suffered by some people especially children. There are some reasons why children often suffered the infections. One of reasons is that they do not want to take the medicine when there are infections. Another reason is that their parents do not like to give their children medicine.

In this case, if you do not want to take the medical ways to handle the ear infections, there is natural way that you can take into your consideration. You can use garlic to handle the infections that your children might have.

You will find that garlic has been used since long time ago. This is a traditional medicine that contains allicin. In this allicin, there are antimicrobial properties. Additionally, garlic has antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral characteristics. These characteristics are very essential in treating the infections.

When you want to treat the infected ear with garlic, you can buy the garlic essential oil or you can extract it by yourself from the clove of garlic. After you have the oil, heat the oil so that it will be warm! After the oil is warm, apply the oil into the infected ear. In this matter, you have to apply it by using cotton swab. You are not allowed to pour the oil directly to the infected ear. You will find that this will reduce the pain and treat the infections so that the infections will not be worse.

Furthermore, you can treat the infections in the ear by using garlic supplement. For this, you can get in the pharmacy in your area or in the local grocery. Since this is in a form in of capsule, it might be hard to make your children to swallow it. To deal with this, you can drop the liquid in the capsule to their infected ear. To make it easy, you have to make a hole in the capsule with a needle. After that, squeeze a few drops into their infected ear. You will find that it is very easy to do.

Instead of being able to treat the infected ear, garlic is also able to be a preventive medicine. This can boost the immune system of body. Thus, taking it regularly will be very great thing for your and your family's body. For instance, you can take it as one of ingredients in your food. In this matter, you might stop the ear infection before it happens.

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