Old-Fashioned Treatment for Ear Infections and Congestion
An excellent traditional treatment for ear infections and congestion. The best way to avoid creating antibiotic-resistant pathogens in your child's body...
Try a traditional onion poultice:
Take two yellow or white onions (not sweet ones).
Heat them in a frying pan (or oven), but do not brown them.
Smear the onions on a piece of cloth (large enough to wrap into a poultice for the afflicted area)
An old t-shirt makes a good cloth for this purpose, you can cut whatever size you need, and the density is perfect.
How to use:
Try the poultice on the feet to clear congestion.
Apply the poultice directly on the chest for bad colds.
Put the poultice behind the ears for ear infections.
Place the poultice over the ears for more direct results (I usually start behind the ears).
If it doesn’t work? It’s just an onion… an unprofitable onion. I always have a bunch of onions ready for the cold and flu season, and then we gradually eat them during the winter.
You can also get a bottle of garlic oil, Herb Pharma carries good ones, to apply behind or inside the ear. Start behind the ear to see how it goes.
It’s important to remember that food allergies, other allergies, and mold are common causes of congestion and ear problems, so avoidance and remediation of the house problem are key.
Tylenol: Did you or your child take Tylenol? Is something wrong with you or your child? Check out these legal cases. None of these routine cold and flu treatments are harmless, but the marketing campaigns are overwhelming.
The problem with lawsuits is that they happen after the damage occurs. It’s best to be leery in advance.
We can avoid antibiotic-caused infections and formation of pathogenic biofilms by avoiding antibiotics and tympanostomy tubes. If you do not take the antibiotics, no resistant pathogens are formed. Here’s my horizontal gene transfer video post.
Here are a few things to read,
In the article below, the “post-tympanostomy” tube insertion is difficult to treat because 1) biofilms grow and adhere to foreign substances in the human body, and 2) the antibiotics used before, during, and after the surgery caused the antibiotic resistance.
Plus, surgery is a filthy procedure, there are tons of lawsuits because people die of infection in tons of avoidable ways. (Did you see the surgical warmer device lawsuit? People died from infection because no one in the surgical suite understood that blowing air from the room over an open wound created infection. You can read about it here.)
Read about some of the dangers of tympanostomy “ear tubes” for infections here at the National Library of Medicine.
Sorry as this is all grim. I had started the post with the cheerful onion tip, but then thought about all the doctors on my blog, so I added the harsher details.
For all of you overseas, remember that after a US lawsuit, the manufacturers of the drug, device, or food will amp up their overseas sales and marketing, so it pays to follow the US market.
Here’s a cheerful pic to help you start cleansing your mental palate,
Speaking of doctors, did you see the new lawsuit against the big makers of children's toothpaste?? The toothpaste contains toxic levels of fluoride -- everyone knows that the fluoride in toothpaste and US water is industrial waste, not food-grade, right?