so there's one thing that you absolutely need to avoid if you get an ear infection i'm primarily
talking about your children if they develop an ear infection they must avoid this one thing but let's
first talk about what this infection is another name for it is otitis media the word media comes
from the word middle because you have an external part of your ear then you have a middle ear then
you have the inner ear okay these infections originate from the middle part of the ear
which i have in my nice diagram right here there's a small tube which is about an inch and a half
that connects the inner ear to the back of your throat and normally it's collapsed but it's there
for several reasons number one to prevent mucus from your back of your throat back up into the ear
and because it has a little uh valve there and it's also there to help equalize
pressure so let's say for example you're in a plane and there's pressure building up
you can swallow and it helps to equalize the pressure you can also yawn and do the same thing
and it also has another function of helping you drain mucous if there's mucus in the inner ear
it can help drain into the back of the throat so it can actually work both ways
now there's several things that can increase the risk of getting an ear infection number one is
smoking or being around secondhand smoke infection now as far as an infection goes 92 percent of the
cases are bacteria and 70 of the cases are viral related so you can see that there's a combination
of both viruses and bacteria and one of the problems that i see is as soon as a child gets
an ear infection a lot of times the parents run to get an antibiotic and sometimes doctors continue
to give these antibiotics over and over and over and then this child develops antibiotic resistance
and that becomes a huge problem and so a lot of doctors now are not recommending antibiotics right
from the get-go they just give it three days and sometimes it gets resolved but there is a
significant risk from the allergy the most common allergy which is cow's milk allergy
and so if your child is prone to your infections or they have an ear infection get them off milk
and milk products immediately it's probably the number one trigger in developing ear infections
because if you have an allergy to milk you're going to generate a lot of mucus that can back
right up into this little station tube which is the connection between the back the throat
and the inner ear so there's also a couple other things you can do and by the way there's
absolutely zero research on this but it works i've seen it work over and over and over again
just use a drop of colloidal silver you can drop it right into the ear it creates no side effects
and it's very anti-bacterial and anti-viral and you can do this several times a day and
also a drop of garlic oil works very well and you can mix it in some olive oil and dilute it
in this take one drop put into the ear let it soak down in there it's very antiviral antibacterial
and then number three and this is very important avoid milk and milk products and i would also
avoid all sugars and one last point xylitol which is an alternative type of sugar it's a sugar
alcohol which has the ability to decrease risk of getting ear infections so as a sugar substitute
for children xylitol would be a good thing women that breastfeed their children dramatically
decrease the risk of getting ear infections all right there you go and thanks for watching
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