It is 4:30 A.M. and here I am writing a blog post about ear pain relief.  My 6 year old woke me up about a half hour.  He was in tears and in excruciating pain with an ear ache that came out of absolutely no where.  I managed to get him to take some pain reliever (Tylenol) which in itself is usually a great task as he hates the taste of most medicines (Don’t they all?).  I then got him a warm rag to put on the ear because I heard that it relieves pain but that did not help.  I decided to google home remedies and came up with a homeremedies.com site which offered lots of solutions; most of which wanted me to put solutions and mixtures in his ear which I wasn’t comfortable with.  Here is the one I felt safe trying and which WORKED 100%

     I had a box of minute rice (doesn’t have to be minute rice, regular rice will work too) and poured a bunch of it in one of my cotton socks then rubber banded the end to keep it from spilling out. I placed it in the microwave for about 45 seconds then placed it on my own ear to make sure it wasn’t too warm for my son.   I placed the warmed sock of rice on his ear and within 3 minutes (maybe less) he was feeling completely better!  I made him leave it on for about 15 minutes as directed and he claimed that he felt like there was loose liquid inside but all the pain was GONE!  We will be going to the Dr. later to check it out –but I have to say this home remedy worked a miracle for my little buddy!  He is sound asleep on the couch!  TRY the sock full of warm rice method  the next time you have a problem ear in your family!

They also say that the heated rice sock is great for a stiff neck-Which I have done in the past and YES it works on that too.  What a blessing we have in RICE. 

Have a wonderful Saturday.

Thanks to Homeremedies.com for a great tip!

Cheryl