How I treat an ear infection

My wife gets a call yesterday, from the daycare center that our second son who is three years old is complaining that his ear hurts. Now I am very proud to say that no one in my family has had to take anti-biotic medication in three years now. For those that have small children in daycare and know how sicknesses get around it is clear that it’s not just by accident. I have three kids in daycare and preschool, a nine month old, a three year old and a five year old. I do not think that there is ever a time that I am not giving herbs to at least one member of the family for some acute symptom.  So the fact that my three year old woke up this morning feeling fine and will be back to school tomorrow is not a first time amazing occurrence. So what did I do well it was a simple combination of three things that I repeated consistently about every hour.

1)we gave him a herbal syrup made up of elder flower and berry, chamomile, yarrow, linden and catnip(if you do not have a syrup like this you can buy the dry herbs and make a strong tea and add some sugar)

2)I applied a topical oil made up of olive oil(if you prefer almond that’s fine but i did not have any in the house) and essential oils of lavender and tea-tree. I would put it all over the outside of the ear and gently rub it down along the back of the jaw bone to the neck.

3) I heated up fresh garlic in olive oil and applied it to the inner part of the outer ear, not even as deep as you would go to clean the ear.

Repeat these three things every hour or two and you could have your child feeling better in no time.

al My wife gets a call yesterday, from the daycare center, that our second son who is three years old is complaining  that his ear hurts. Now I am very proud to say that no one in my family has had to take anti-biotic medication in three years now. For those that have small children in daycare and know how sicknesses get around it is clear that it’s not just by accident. I have three kids in daycare and preschool, a nine month old, a three year old and a five year old. I do not think that there is ever a time that I am not giving herbs to at least one member of the family for some acute symptom.  So the fact that my three year old woke up this morning feeling fine and will be back to school tomorrow is not a first time amazing occurrence. So what did I do well it was a simple combination of three things that I repeated consistently about every hour.

1)we gave him a herbal syrup made up of elder flower and berry, chamomile, yarrow, linden and catnip(if you do not have a syrup like this you can buy the dry herbs and make a strong tea and add some sugar)

2) I applied topical oil made up of olive oil (if you prefer almond that’s fine but i did not have any in the house) and essential oils of lavender and tea-tree. I would put it all over the outside of the ear and gently rub it down along the back of the jaw bone to the neck.

3) I heated up fresh garlic in olive oil and applied it to the inner part of the outer ear, not even as deep as you would go to clean the ear.

Repeat these three things every hour or two and you could have your child feeling better in no time.

Also I do give NSAIDS like Tylenol to my kids when they are really uncomfortable.

I hope this is useful to you all I know how hard it is when our little babes are no feeling good.

So I do give NSAIDS like Tylenol to my kids when they are really uncomfortable.

I hope this is useful to you all I know how hard it is when our little babes are no feeling good.