[nagdu] Dog Ear Cleaning with Household Products?

[Raven Tolliver]

I've used several different household products with success.
50/50 water and vinegar. You can use apple cider vinegar or white
vinegar, though ACV is less irritating to the skin and olfactories.
50/50 water and peroxide
1/4 tsp. of coconut oil. You can use refined or unrefined/virgin.
Unrefined has more nutrients, but I've used both with success. Coconut
oil is solid at room temp, but will soften once you insert it into the
ear. Massage it into the ear canal as usual.
2 drops of colloidal silver in each ear. Be sure to purchase 30 PBB
(parts per billion), as it is a higher concentration. I get Wellness
brand, whose bottle has a dropper for the cap.
Nowadays, I make a ear rinse/healing solution of 50/50 ACV and water,
grapefruit seed extract (nutribiotic brand), and Colloidal Silver. I
make it in a 4-ox mason jar, so my amounts are: 2 oz water, 2 oz ACV,
2 drops GSE, and 2 drops colloidal silver. It's a highly
antimicrobial, immune boosting, and cleansing solution.
I follow this rinse up with coconut oil.

I administer liquid solutions into the ear using an eye dropper that
holds a teaspoon of liquid.

I only use the liquid solution in the rare instance of an ear
infection. Other than that, I put coconut oil into his ear without
using liquid solution beforehand.
To check if there's any debris in his ear, I use a dry Kleenex, or a
Kleenex dampened with colloidal silver.Be sure to only clean out the
ear if there is dirt in it. If they're clean, don't clean them for the
sake of a ritual. Too frequent flushing and cleaning disturbs the
natural ear flora.
Hth.
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Raven
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On 10/3/15, Andrew J. LaPointe via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>         Hi, I use hydrogen Peroxide 3%.  I dip cotton balls in the Peroxide
>
> and use my index finger to get down in the cavity with about 2 or 3 cotton
> balls in each ear then do the same to wipe out the excess.  I then use a
> face cloth that has been heated up in hot water and wash out the inner ear
> flaps and around the outer ear.  My dogs ears are always very clean and they
>
> never have any ear problems.  When I have my dog's nails clipped, the
> groomer always say that their ears are very clean.  Hop this helps a bit.
> Andy and Shubert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dani Pagador via nagdu
> Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2015 6:51 PM
> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Dani Pagador
> Subject: [nagdu] Dog Ear Cleaning with Household Products?
>
> Hi, Everyone.
> What household products do you use to clean your dogs' ears? A while
> back I thought I remember seeing e-mail from someone on list about
> using vinegar and water to clean out their dog's ears, but I can't
> remember percentages e.g., so many parts water to so many parts
> vinegar, can't remember whether the vinegar was shite or ACV or
> whether it made a difference.
>
> Peg doesn't like the ear cleaning solution, and I get more on me than
> in her ears. I bought a set of what look like mini basters from the
> baby section at CVS and am thinking they may help with putting the
> cleaning solution in. Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Dani
>
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