Your Health: Homemade prevention technique for swimmers ear

Joe and Teresa Graedon
Jul 23, 2019
Jul 23, 2019

Graedons — Joe Graedon and Dr. Teresa Graedon
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Question: Do you know of any good, safe ways of dealing with swimmer’s ear? I can usually feel it coming on (often within a couple of days of clearing out earwax or swimming in a lake or pond). I’d like to be able to clear it up before I need to see a doctor and get some antibiotics.

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Joe Graedon is a pharmacologist; Dr. Teresa Graedon is a medical

anthropologist and nutrition expert. Questions for the Graedons can be sent to them using their website, www.peoplespharmacy.com, or by writing to the following address: Graedons’ People’s Pharmacy, King Features, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803.