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Besides garlic/olive or mullein oil as suggested in comments: An antihistamine will help with overall sinus congestion. Saline spray or nasal rinse is helpful. I recently learned you should not blow your nose immediately after saline spray. The salt spray should sit in your sinuses a while to work better. Don’t use food safe olive oil. Should be medicinal, honestly I don’t know the difference because it all comes from olives. Maybe it’s processed differently. Apple cider vinegar, ginger, lemon are great for sinus etc. Also crush a garlic clove with lemonade or juice is helpful when you have infection like a cold. The last two aren’t cures I find it spreads healing.
If you aren’t sick with eat infection or a cold an ear cleaning oil is good. My ears have been clogged for excess ear wax and mainly using Q tips. Dr said excess wax when I had sinus infection couple months ago. I used Debrox earwax removal oil once and in two days wax came out. I don’t think it’s suggested if you have infection.
Ty. Am wondering if it’s infection from spring allergies. Baked an inion and it took some pain away. Plan on repeating this evening and am looking into the Debrox, so ty for that recommendation!
You’re welcome & hope you get better soon. Also, I keep this brand vinegar blend in stock. It’s usually in my local grocery store for the same price online. I take the lemon ginger version. If you don’t like ginger they have others. Even my husband likes it and my one year old granddaughter took it and didn’t complain.
https://www.stonewallkitchen.com/specialty-food/beverages/cocktail-mixers-syrups-shrubs/
There years in a row during allergy season I had a severe ear infection, so bad it kept me out of work several days. I thought it was just allergies. Several years ago light bulb went off, the building I worked in was flooded after a hurricane that went bad. So, I’m thinking mold had something to do with it. However I’ve always had terrible allergies and occasionally ear infections.
For infections especially colds and allergies I like the following:
I don’t order directly from Dr Christopher’s. There’s several good sites online that carry it. A couple times in a pinch I did order from amazon or Walmart. I have a friend that has a prime account and can get it quickly. Just be careful ordering from amazon! Double check that the company sells on their and Amazon is the seller, not a small third party seller. I saw an article a few months ago about fake supplements on there. The bottles didn’t have all the brand info on the label, a big red flag. Some companies only sell on amazon including good natural companies.
I take this anytime I’m exposed to someone that’s sick or feels like I’m coming down with something.
https://christophersoriginalformulas.com/collections/capsules/products/x-infx-capsule
I had a terrible cold or sinus infection and waited to long to go get antibiotics. For a while it seemed like the antibiotics weren’t helping. I got this and could tell a difference. Now I only take on bad seasonal allergy days.
https://christophersoriginalformulas.com/collections/capsules/products/sinus-plus-capsule
I always keep Oregano Oil Capsules on hand. I trust this company. I don’t recommend the oil or tincture for ingesting. I’ve taken herbal tinctures for several years and some are very bitter but tolerable. The oregano tincture burns and you can’t get rid of the taste even mixed in OJ.
https://www.northamericanherbandspice.com/ingredients/oregano-oil/
🙏 ty, moody!