how do you get water out of the ear?
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I shake my head violently until it 'flies' out. It does work, but boy does it make you dizzy. Avoid doing it while standing up.
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Hi Kim\n\nHere are some ideas to clean out your ears.\n\nHerbal Aids \n1.Garlic: Earache, inflammation of the middle ear, ear disease: Pack a small clove of garlic in gauze and place into the external ear passage; or drop 4-5 drops of oil into the ear channel, cover with flannel, and keep warm. \n\n2.Rue: Warm and place several drops of compound oil into the ear. \n\n3.Mullein: Use warm mullein oil, 2-3 drops in the ear 2-3 times daily. Apple cider vinegar is also a healing agent. \n\n4.Hops: Apply a flannel bag of hops, and moist heat over the affected area. \n\n5.Treat Both Ears: The simple, old-fashioned aids are sometimes very fast in giving relief. Always treat both ears, even if only one aches. \n\n6.Onion: Lightly bake a large onion, cut it in half and while warm (not hot enough to irritate the area), bind one half of the onion over each ear. Bandage in place and hold bandage on with a nightcap, white skullcap, etc., and leave on all night. \n\n7.Camomile: Use a fomentation over both ears of three parts of camomile and one part of lobelia. Take two ounces orally (a wineglass full) each two waking hours. Leave the fomentation on the ears all night. (Cover fomentation with plastic or oiled silk, etc.). \n\n8.Mullein: Use three to six drops of mullein oil in both ears several times each day. Insert it upon retiring for the night, and, as before, plug the ears with cotton. Place a fomentation over the ears all night of three parts mullein and one part lobelia. \n\n9.Dr. Christopher's B & B Tincture: When this procedure is used as explained here, it can be an aid in assisting an improvement of poor equilibrium, failure of hearing, aiding the motor nerve, etc. With an eye dropper insert into each ear at night four to six drops of oil of garlic and four to six drops of the following herb tincture: blue cohosh, black cohosh, blue vervain, skullcap, and lobelia, plugging ears overnight with cotton, six days a week, four to six months, or as needed. On the seventh day, flush ears with a small ear syringe using warm apple cider vinegar and distilled water half and half. \n\n10.Flaxseed Meal and Blue Vervain: Made into a poultice with flaxseed meal, using a strong infusion of Blue Vervain instead of plain hot water, it relieves ... earache and ear abscess as well. \n  \n\nTestimonials \n1.Garlic: When my little girl had an earache I put a piece of fresh garlic in her ear and it was better by morning. The previous alternative was to go to the doctor and pay a lot of money for penicillin. \n\n\nBest of health to you
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Breathe slowly and deeply.\nMentally, try to relax.\nGently rub the area of the head directly behind the ear, where the earlobe meets the skull (some heart-controlling nerve passes through there, and I've heard a gentle massage works).
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First you need to remove the water.  Urban legend says that you put a few drops of rubbing alcohol in your ear and lie down with that ear on a towel to drain.  Then, apply either a hot water bottle, heating pad or warm ear cups.  The swimmers ear should clear up within 48 hours.
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put a lttle bit of rubbing alcohol in your ears it helps
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either get a q-tip and get the water out by letting the qtip soak it up, but heres another great way\ni know it may sound like im trying to make you look stupid, but im not...TRUST ME, IT WORKS!\nhop on one foot, have your head tilted to the side, and hit the side of your head your trying to get the water out of...like if the right side of your head was down as you were jumping, hit the right side of your head, but dont hit it too hard!
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U can put a small amount of peroxide in your ear or get a product called Swimmer's Ear.
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check into getting your ears candled.  it is painless and you will be amazed at a) what comes outta there and b) how much better your hearing is.\n\ncandling is really a simple procedure, it is just a paper tube that is coated in a waxy material, it is placed into your ear canal and lit, as it burns down, it draws the ear wax up into the tube.  It is much more effective at getting your ears cleaned than a q-tip that actually will push some of the wax further down into your ear.
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You might think i am crazy, but i work at a hospital and we have a lot of people who can not afford medications. we tell them to use one part vinegar, one part peroxide, and one part water. mix and use a eye dropper to put a drop or two in your ear. it will naturally help the ear wax come out of your ear and help dry up any fluid build  up you may have. worth a shot anyways.
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Clean your ears with Q-Tips you can also pour a little bit of peroxide in your ear to help it.
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Ears are self-cleaning (just like the eyes or nose). By gravity and body heat, the wax will gradually make it to the opening where you can wipe if off with a washcloth or rinse it away in the shower. That is all you really need to do with earwax.\n\nYou can have too much of a good thing, however. We can't be like the movie character Shrek, who made a nice candle from earwax. If we have a wax impaction, it will cause a significant conductive hearing loss. It will also trap water behind it and cause all kind of annoying "sloshing" sounds. It is only when you have a wax impaction that you can clean out your ears.\n\nA few rules:\n\n   1. Never attempt to clean out an ear that is painful and/or presumed to be infected. To do so could cause additional pain and/or ear damage.\n   2. Second, you don't use Q-tips in the ears. Q-tips do not fit very well and will gradually pack the wax back against your eardrum (just like loading a cannon by tamping down the powder). If you want to use them to clean the ear opening, that's OK, but don't dig around deep in the ear canal.\n   3. Never clean out an ear that has "tubes" or if the eardrum is known to be perforated. This is a big no-no.\n   4. The safest way to clean out a wax impaction is with warm water -- either from your shower (just let a gentle stream hit your ears) or the gentle stream of an ear syringe (you can buy them at the pharmacy). If you use the syringe, remember -- just the warm water goes in the ear. Don't put the syringe in your ear, or you will surely have trouble.\n   5. If you have a history of very dry and hard wax, you may need to use some wax-softening agents prior to the warm-water wash. You can by various brands at the pharmacy.\n   6. Think about getting a home otoscope. Although you can't look in your own ears, you can train someone else to look in yours. Then you will know if the ear is "clean." \n\nSo remember: Earwax = Good; Boogers = Bad.\n\nAnd if you find yourself overloaded with Q-Tips, here are some uses you might not have thought of:\n\n   1. Little barbells for those who do not want to overexert themselves.\n   2. Cannon plungers for your miniature cannon.\n   3. Paint brushes (actually, a very good use). Martha Stewart would be proud.\n   4. Use them for cleaning the gunk between the keys of your computer keyboard or that stuff in your comb.\n   5. Use them as substitute birthday candles for people afraid of fire. (Do not light them!)\n   6. Can be used as toothpicks for people who have wide gaps between their teeth.\n   7. Can become substitute cigarettes for those trying to stop but who still need some oral gratification. (Do not light them!)\n   8. Use them to clean the quills of your pet porcupine.\n   9. Let your kids use them instead of Popsicle sticks when making those attractive picture frames and jewelry boxes for Mother's Day.\n  10. Shoot them out of soda straws at flies and mosquitoes.
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Lay your head on a pillow, put 2 or 3 drops of alcohol in your ear. Wait for a minute or two, and then repeat the process on the other ear. The alcohol will "break-down" the superficial tension of the water and it will leave it dry as new. You will feel how the water comes out leaving your hears refreshed. Don't worry, alcohol is harmless even if you accidentally pour the whole bottle and it's a great replacement for those expensive tiny bottles sold exclusively for swimmers. DO NOT put a q-tip or ANYTHING inside your ear. DO NOT hit your head with ANYTHING (not even with your hand, it's useless and it'll make you look crazy).
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This has happened to me.  I finally discovered that there was a buildup of ear wax that had gotten so bad it completely filled the ear canal.  The only way to get it out that I found is ear wax drops you can get at a drugstore.  It usually takes a day or two of putting the drops in and flushing with water. It takes so long its easy to think it isn't working.  When it finally comes out it is a huge relief!\n\nGood luck!
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Try dropping a few drops of rubbing alcohol in your ear.  Wait for a few moments, then tilt your head the other way and it should all come running out.
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Try this:\n\n1. get a piece of paper towel.\n2. crumple it up\n3. push it into the bottom of a paper cup\n4. Pour steaming hot water into the cup\n5. Pour out the excess water, so you have a steaming paper in the bottom of the cup.\n6. Cup the effected ear with the steaming cup\n7. Wait 2-3 minutes.\n\nIt seems to help me alot.\n\nLet me know if it works for you too.
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two things i have tried that worked are:  1.  try getting a cotton ball soaked in alcohol, let a couple of drops go in the ear.  this should evaporate the water causing your swimmers ear to go away.  another trick is, get some warm water in a little cup, pour a couple of drops in the ear, then quickly lay your head to the other side, and let the water come out.  one of the two things should work.  if not, you may have an infection and need to see an MD.  good luck!
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Either go to the doctor or have a friend carefully use tweezers to get it out ONLY if they can see the cotton close to the ear canal opening.  NEVER go further than that.