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(AlleyGator) wrote in
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> My daughter is in her mid-teens, and has tears in her eyes because
she
> has an earache, which I don't even remember her ever having as
alittle
> kid. She's almost never sick, so she doesn't handle this stuff well.
> Since the doctors are all closed, a friend who is a nurse-
practitioner
> gave us a 3-day regimen of some antibiotic and the wife went to
> Walgreens to get something they call "sweet oil" which I figure is
> just glycerine. That, plus a dose of ibuprofen, I figure is the best
> you can do. And the ole' heating pad on the head, of course.
> Honestly, I don't ever remember having this myself. For some reason,
> I think they used to blow smoke in your ear. How this could help, I
> have no idea.
After swimming we'd get earfulls of hydrogen peroxide to prevent
swimmer's ear (ache).
Andy
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"If you can't do it naturally, then fake it."
- Alfred Hitchcock
Spoken to Ingrid Bergman
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