How To Treat Your Child's Swimmers Ear

How do I treat my child's swimmer's ear?

If your child is diagnosed with an outer ear infection, or swimmer's ear, they'll be put on ear drops. The ear drops will help decrease the infection and the inflammation of the outer ear which causes swimmer's ear. Sometimes the outer ear infection of swimmer's ear is so severe, so swollen and so full of puss, that you can't get the drops in. In those cases, sometimes they'll put what's called a wick in the ear. That allows the drop to get to the place where it needs to go, through all the inflammation and the swelling.