Thread: Dog ear infections

Originally Posted by Fireflite

@kidmac42
Mix 50/50 vinegar and warm water. Get a small sprayer or eye drop bottle put a few good squits in. Controls our Springers issues no worries and lasts about 2 months. A few cents a year not a few hundred!

YES! Or buy Vosol ear drops from the human pharmacy. Cheaper than vet preparations. Use instructions on bottle.

Active ingredient is acetic acid, aka vinegar, and a bit of antifreeze to make it sticky. It works by rendering the ear environment acidic which is the natural ear defense which suppresses growth of microbes (and this defense gets broken down by repeatedly getting water into the ear when swimming etc - that's why ear canal infections get called "swimmer's ear").

The low pH gets to fungi, yeasts, resistant bacteria, even super resistant bugs like pseudomonas. There is NO antibiotic resistance to it... because it is not an antibiotic. A couple drops morning and night into each ear and you are sweet for prevention. For an infection which has taken hold, it's used more times a day and in slightly larger amounts.