I always use a hairdryer because I cannot stand wet ears! In fact, it's super rare is use it to dry my hair. I pretty much only use it to dry out my ears. 😂
I felt water staying in my ear all day and a loss of hearing in that ear. I tried several methods that you described, but nothing worked. An ENT discovered a large piece of earwax on my eardrum, which he removed. The wax held on to the water, which affected my hearing. Everything's great now.
@@shabnamkhatoon7384 No, they didn't need surgery. In the channel of this short you can see videos on how they remove earwax with different tools, it's usually very fast
Being a lifeguard for a few years, where we were required to swim to stay strong, we often found our ears clogged with water. Our favorite method for getting them unclogged was to bend over at the waist with our ear facing the ground, and bounce our upper body up and down. If you have to you can brace yourself against a wall, but suddenly there will be a “pop” and all the water will rush out. An alternative was to shake your head while leaning over. These worked every time…if not one method, then the other.
For summer swimming occasional use, we would use rubbing alcohol. We used an small eye dropper full of rubbing alcohol, tip ear upright, flood ear, hold for 5 seconds, tip back with sometime off tissue or towel to catch the fluids. Worked ever time. Not sure what constant use would be, but I’m thinking this would only work for occasional situations. We never had ear aches or infections with this method.
Bend forward slowly at the waist until you no longer hear the water moving in your ear. Then turn your head slowly. You'll hear the water again. Keep the head tilted, and the water should release in a few moments.
Unfortunately, I'd think by the time most people make it to an audiologist for wet ears, they have an infection. 😢 But it would be cool if a guinea pig would be willing to get their ears wet just so we can see it!
Hi doc- I went swimming Wednesday and the water is still in my left ear primarily. I’m feeling partially deaf as I noticed music sounds louder in my right near headphones. When I switch the earphones, the music my still sounds louder in my right ear and is barely audible in my left. I’m about to travel from Miami back to NYC and worried the cabin pressure will make my left ear start to hurt. So far it’s just badly clogged from freestyle swimming on my left side. Should I just buy the ear drops once I get home? Or see an ear specialist? It’s been 2 days.
I just pour some tepid water INTO the ear that has water in it, then tilt the ear to let it drain out. The new water mixes with the clogged water and breaks the seal, allowing it to roll out.
Tilt your head, put one more drop of water in your ear, as soon as you hear a pop quickly tilt your the other way and all the water drains from your ear.
I have to lay on my side for the water to drain out, and feeling the water in the opposite ear makes me crazy in the interim. I have extremely dry skin and I make very little ear wax. My mother always put alcohol in my ears, and it dried out everything till I had an earache. That's when I learned to put olive oil in my ears before I went swimming. The water seems to drain more efficiently, and after the fact, my ears don't get overly dry.
I always tilt my head and bounce it up and down a bit, works every time for me. I had no idea this was a problem for so many people, it is very annoying so I feel bad for them.
When I was at camp, to prevent swimmer's ear, the counselors put a few drops of isopropyl alcohol in our ears when we got out of the water. They mixed and evaporated. Do you recommend this Rhys?
I made a solution of 1 part white vinegar and 1 part isopropyl alcohol. Mixed it up, and put one dropper full into my daughter's ear. Drained it immediately by tilting her head. She said it instantly worked! My question is: how should we clean our ears? No Qtips, but what solution should we use?
Thank you so much! I’ve had water stuck in my ear for about an hour and I didn’t know what to do so I did what you said and it did come out! Thanks so much! ❤
I just bought a oil thing and u put it in ur ear and u tilt ur head like 20 mins later to the side u put it in and it takes a couple of seconds to come out but it is so worth it
Ok so nothing really worked for me and maybe i am not alone. So i just put a lil more water in my right ear(for 2-3 sec) and cover it with a cloth and then lay down on my pillow and the water came.hope it will help anyone Tip- when u turn ur head ( to remove the water) make sure to do it quick and with a lil force ❤
I've tried this before, being careful to roll it solidly enough that I don't think the (relatively small amount of) water in there will risk any of it breaking off!
Off topic but when you wiggled your ear to get the water out it reminded me of a chiropractor video I watched and the chiropractor would pull on the ear and there would be a cracking sound. Why would the chiropractor do this and what are the plus/minus for doing it?
Another way is tilt your head to the ear that is full of water and keep stomping your right or left leg until the water gets out of your ears, Hope That Helps😊
In my case is by leaning only my head to the front. It's has something to do with my right ear, i don't understand what's happening, but it's the only way.
Im from South America,can you please say wich chemical is inside the drying sprays/drops,please?Thank you. (I usually use alcohol boricado,but dont know the english name of it)
i was doing jumps while i have water in my ears, the water made a sound and i kept jumping, suddenly the water came out, so basically you just have to jump and tell me if it works
As a swimmer we use Alcohol like liquid alcohol we put it in her ears and let it kind of like wash around a little bit and then you just like turn on the side with the towel and just let it all fall out and then clean your ear and yeah
Just pour some more water and tilt the head until gravity does it's thing. You can hear air bubble sound when you fill more water and aloha!! Water is out.
Lmao! Was this a video based from my comment using a qtip to extract water from behind my eardrum? 😂 I feel……….seen. Thank you (many years too late) Rhys. 😂
Extract water from behind your eardrum? Honey if you got water back there you need a doctor, asap. We call that "medically relevant." 😸 There should be nothing but air in that chamber. Glue ear, infection, or some sort of eustachian tube disorder that prevents drainage can cause fluid behind the ear. All are very dangerous.
Not sure what you did. But you clearly didn't do what you claimed, since there is no way to extract water from behind the eardrum with a q-tip without first rapturing the eardrum.
When I was a child I got many ear infections from swimming and my doctor had me use a solution of 50:50 white vinegar and rubbing alcohol. It always took the water out completely. Now, 60 years later I just use the rubbing alcohol but wonder if that’s ok??? Dries my ear out but is it damaging anything?
I'd personally rinse it out with water afterwards just to make sure no alcohol is left in there. Not a professional, so can't say whether a brief exposure like that would cause any problems. It's probably not something I'd want to try for myself, haha.
My ear has had water in it for over 16 hours. I slept on the side that had water in the ear and when I woke up it was still there. I tried wiggling my ear and the tiniest bit of water came out but the majority is still in 🙁 Great video though! Looking at the other comments this helped a lot of people.
if there is fluid trapped behind the eardrum, it would usually be treated like any other middle ear effusion case, Otovent may help to release the fluid. If this does not rectify itself after a couple of weeks, an appointment with a GP would be advised
