Is it okay to have water in your ear when you went swimming over a week ago?

Question

My ear is like that. I've had water in it for over a week and i don't know what to do!

Answer 1

take some rubbing alcohol and pour a capful or so into your ear and let it sit for 10 minutes.  This means you'll need to keep your head tilted to that side so it doesn't run out.Then just get a tissue and let it run out.  the alcohol will dry out the water.  If that doesn't show some marked improvement within a n hour or so, you might want to call a doc.

Answer 2

Yeah, that used to happed to me every time I went swimming.

You probably need to get your ears cleaned out.  Visit an ENT (Ear-Nose-Throat) doctor, who will give you some drops to put in your ears every day for a few days.  Then you go and get it cleaned; it will only take about 5 minutes.  I think it's called ear irrigation or something like that.

(It's nothing to be ashamed of, by the way.  It doesn't mean that you are dirty or anything.  Some people's ears just accumulate dry wax.)

Answer 3

the same thing happend to me when a week ago and  my ear started aching but i got these drops my mom got from the doctor and it worked. (i thinked my turned into an infection)