I have a chronically blocked Eustachian tube that causes fluid build-up in my middle ear. Finally had a tube put in but I'm to avoid getting water to the ear drum -- if possible. I have a custom-made ear plug that works in the shower but not in the pool. Water gets past it. I have a neoprene headband that helps but water still gets past it. And when it does my middle ear reacts and fills w/ fluid. You'd think that w/ all the swimming kids w/ tubes in their ears, somebody would have come up w/ a reliable way to keep water out. So Q: Recommendations for the best way to keep water out of ear canal and away from ear drum.
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For some reason I tend to get blockage in my left eustachian tube. Somehow or something in my stroke seems to force water into my left ear.
I deal with it by using "ear puddy". It's just a ball of waxy silicone. You can get it in swimming catalogues, but it's far cheaper if you just go to walgreens and get the same stuff in the sleep aid section packaged as noise reduction plugs. The last package I bought was like $3.99, and it has lasted me for well over a year (and I have only used half the contents so far.)
You can keep reusing a ball of the stuff until it stops sticking to your ear. (You know it stops sticking when you start getting water in your ear.) You just take a ball of the stuff, shape it into a little cone, and shove it in the outer portion of your ear canal. Only a little of it actually goes in the hole. The rest you just smash over the opening of your ear to make a tight seal.
It works for me, anyway.
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For some reason I tend to get blockage in my left eustachian tube. Somehow or something in my stroke seems to force water into my left ear.
I deal with it by using "ear puddy". It's just a ball of waxy silicone. You can get it in swimming catalogues, but it's far cheaper if you just go to walgreens and get the same stuff in the sleep aid section packaged as noise reduction plugs. The last package I bought was like $3.99, and it has lasted me for well over a year (and I have only used half the contents so far.)
You can keep reusing a ball of the stuff until it stops sticking to your ear. (You know it stops sticking when you start getting water in your ear.) You just take a ball of the stuff, shape it into a little cone, and shove it in the outer portion of your ear canal. Only a little of it actually goes in the hole. The rest you just smash over the opening of your ear to make a tight seal.
It works for me, anyway.
