NFR: Have extreme itching due to infection or insect bites? My doctor gave me a "FORMULA" that works

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dianncy1964

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I have had since April, 2 ear infections that have been extremely itchy and finally last Saturday I went to Urgent Care (my doctor has been treating it but it was just getting worse) and the Doctor who treated me ~ first of all gave me the CORRECT dosages of antibiotics which is clearing my infections but I was more concerned with the itch that was so bad it woke me from a sound sleep:

She gave me this formula and it WORKS!!!!!!!!

ALSO: Because it's organic, it does NOT pose a risk for itchy ears ~ it is an ear drop solution as well as a solution to apply to insect bites and infections ~ May sting at first for a second or two but the itch goes away and helps reduce the swelling.

1/3 white vinegar

2/3 rubbing alcohol

What i did was bought a small glass vial with a lid and bought an ear dropper ~ both at Walgreens under $5.00 for total of both.

I mixed: 2 1/2 ounces of white vinegar and 5 1/4 ounces of rubbing alcohol (DH is a chemist and broke down measurements for easy mixing)

It's still hot in AZ and bug bites are still happening and when DH had an insect bite, I used the dropper of "formula" and it worked. Took out the itch.

I use it in droppers for my itchy ears and it WORKS!!!!!!!!!

I am passing this on because to me its Miraculous.

 
Hi Dianne, my husband uses this for his ears, but I never thought to use it on insect bites. THANKS!

 
LOL! This is what we used on our sons to prevent 'swimmers ear'...it helps

balance the pH in your ears! After they swam for hours in the chlorinated pool, we'd squirt this liquid (1/2 vinegar, 1/2 alchohol) in their ears...worked beautifully! Of course, this was AFTER a painful bout of swimmer's ear...in Florida, everyone wants to swim, swim, swim! Love those home remedies, though!

 
Yep. I used to keep a bottle in my dive bag. It's amazing how people survived years ago without

all our fancy creations of today.

 
Wow. Wish we knew that when I was a kid. I couldn't look at water without getting an ear infection

 
Not only did I use this for swimmers ear on my kids, but my vet

recommended it for my sweet little Lhaso Apso, Misty (who is now long passed away), for her ear problems that are so typical to those floppy-ear kinds of dogs.

 
I did one set of dives with full, heavy wetsuit plus hood and gloves. Although the preservation

is far superior to what one finds in the wrecks of the warm seas, I can just view some braver person's photos. I won't do it again. It was all very cumbersome. 48 degrees. Yikes!

When I was young and extremely thin, I could go 140' - 170' with just a little shorty suit in warm water. But now that I am chunkier and old, I get cold. Strange but better than no dives at all.

I'd love to do a kelp tour around your area, but you'd have to get it very toasty.

 
I learned to dive in these waters and ended up buying all my gear (drysuit) so

I had a bunch of dives under my belt before I ever dove in tropical waters. Here it's salt water and while the life is not as plentiful as the tropics, it's still interesting. Becuase it's dark most of the time, we use dive lights all the time and as a result, the colors really pop. I was bummed the first time I dove in the tropics and saw how washed out the colors become. They definitely not as vibrant as you see on tv. I thought a dive light would help so I rented on the last time I was in Thailand. That was rediculous because you'd have to get really close for the beam of light to not get disbursed. Plus, I'm so used to diving with my friends that the dog & pony show in the tropics...follow the leader...seems kind of silly to me now. (I have over 200 dives at this point.) I'd love to do the tropics and do a bunch of night dives...or get on a live aboard again. I did a couple along the Inside Passage and that was great!

 
What did you think of the dive in Thailand? I found it so fished out that it was a serious

disappointment.

Indeed, a night dive is a whole other world. Colours like crazy and fish asleep with bubbles around them, slithering octopus.

What a wonderful sport!

 
Phuket. 1989. Cloudy water. (but warm) Then boated to a small island where we

had lobster on open fire. Great lunch...just to make this a food-related discussion...but my husband was totally spooked by the cloudy water and was only in for the first dive and only for 1 minute.

Where did you go?

 
Dive chat....

I was in the Gulf of Thailand back in 1998. We launched from Koh Phangan and went to Red Rock. My dive & travel buddy Alison still swears it was the best dive she’s ever done (including some Central America, Caribbean, and Mexico diving)

Then I went back in 2006 to the other coast and dove off of Koh Phi Phi. The area close to the island was still ravaged by the tsunami but not far out, we had some good diving. Saw lots of fish, eels, rays, some sharks, etc.

I’ve dove in the Havana Harbor of Cuba, a bunch on the Caribbean side of Mexico on the Palancar Reef, the Blue Hole in Belize, a couple live aboard trips up the Inside Passage (off the northern tip of Vancouver Island), off Monterey Bay in California, and all over the Pacific Northwest.

I’d really like to dive for an extended period in the Red Sea, spots in Indonesia, and above all, I really want to dive with a whale shark. They can be seen both in Mexico and in Thailand but I never spotted any. Ah, and I’d really like to do a Florida freshwater dive with manatees. I tried to squeeze in a dive when I visited my parents last Christmas but I didn’t work out. Maybe next time…. smileys/smile.gif

 
We lived on the Red Sea for 12 years Traca. I want to add my 2 cents worth

on our dive travels but waaaay to tired right now. I'll do it tomorrow. ;o)

Edited to add:
I can make this food related. LOL

 
All this is making me want to get back to the sea again. I must admit that each time I left 'my'

island I knew I was going to miss the creatures.

I'd love to do a major dive in Indonesia. I'd make that the mission of the trip. So many parts of the world are so desperate for human survival, however, that the creatures really don't stand a chance anymore. I wouldn't hold out great expectations.

Done lots of dives among the sharks...black tip, tiger, hammerhead, nurse...but one can't really play with them. I prefer just hanging quietly watching the interplay of the tiny guys with their feeding stations and their symbiotic relationships, and noting how even fish behaviour changes after repeated contact with us.

I often wonder how disrupted the aquatic life is now after the tsunami. It always took a week just following a minor storm in the Caribbean, to clear the water. (to say nothing of the arrival of gigantic floating cities smashing the coral with enormous anchors and carrying hordes of flailing bodies wanting a look at the wonder below)

Okay, now I need a dive!

 
I'd love to get back in the water too...I've dove with some reef sharks too...

Have you heard about the diving in Belize's Blue Hole? We were down poking around this collapsed underwater cave and all of a sudden a shark zooms by my leg. The dive master points upwards and it turns out, they're chumming for sharks overhead! Mostly reef sharks but the one that zoomed by my leg was a bull shark and it was totally freaky. Definitely NOT what I bargained for.

Cruise ships and flailing bodies? Not my thing. I'd rather hire a local and go somewhere off the radar.

Indonesia is supposed to be some great diving. There's an inland saltwater lake that is filled with stingerless jellyfish. They've been trapped so long, and the lack of predators, they've evolved without the stingers. I'd love to go to Indonesia on a live aboard and dive like crazy. smileys/smile.gif

 
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