[01:56] mullacc I didn't realize garlic was good for that too
[01:57] loquacious yeah, OJ is key... I also use that emergen-C fizzy vitamin drink mix stuff. that's pretty much all i use is one of those a couple times a week or every day.
[01:58] loquacious from what i hear it's the natural sulfites in garlic and the aromatics.
[01:58] mullacc What do you do with the garlic? Eat it raw?
[01:58] loquacious it'll kill some pretty gnarly infections, but the trick is you need to eat it fresh and raw. hot.
[01:58] loquacious yeah
[01:58] loquacious i've tried garlic pills and it's not the same at all.
[01:59] loquacious i've seen garlic ear drops for ear infections, and that just sounds like a bad idea. food grade garlic and oil down inside the ear and canal on an infection.
[01:59] loquacious just eat the garlic.
[02:00] mullacc I'm afraid I've fucked up my ears enough. I wouldn't risk sticking food in 'em.
[02:00] loquacious If I can manage it I'll eat a clove as soon as I can after being exposed to someone sick or feeling like i'm going to get sick
[02:01] mullacc I'm going to try that next time. Anything to stay away from the dr's office.
[02:01] loquacious yeah, mine are wacked, too. they're constantly itchy so I'm always sticking q-tips in them and scratching at 'em. Plus I used to surf... I get bad ear infections...
[02:02] loquacious but garlic keeps 'em away mostly. Sometimes it takes a lot of cloves over a few days, sometimes it just takes a few.
[02:03] mullacc I always hear about how bad q-tips are. But if I don't use one for a few days, it drives me nuts
[02:03] loquacious yeah
[02:04] loquacious y'know, civilization can and may fall, but if there aren't q-tips i'm gonna get all michael douglas "falling down" on the whole planet.
[02:04] mullacc hah
[02:05] mullacc nothing feels better than good stiff q-tipping after a shower
[02:05] loquacious I've discovered that the very next best thing to a q-tip is a nice, smooth and worn jewelers phillps head screwdriver. there's apparently numerous objects from different that are like this: namely, small ear scoops and other scratching/spooning implements.
[02:06] loquacious I know that sounds weird... but it works and is actually kinda gentle and probably actually less abrasive then a q tip.
[02:06] mullacc If nothing else, you're probably more cautious with it than the q-tip.
[02:07] mullacc just don't sneeze
[02:07] loquacious hah
[02:08] loquacious and you'll never lose the cotton from a q-tip deep in your ear canal.
[02:08] mullacc A friend in junior high got one of those big pencl top erasers stuck in his ear.
[02:08] loquacious hah
[02:08] mullacc But he said it was the best damn ear scratch ever
[02:08] loquacious hahahahaha
[02:09] mullacc Have you lost the cotton in your ear? Man, that kinda creeps me out. I've never thought of that possibility.
[02:10] loquacious I have
[02:10] mullacc Don't buy the store brand...buy Q-Tip brand!
[02:10] loquacious getting something stuck in your ear is pretty terrifying...
[02:10] loquacious most of them were actual Q-tips
[02:11] loquacious i really like a certain brand of store label ones... slightly smaller and harder than a q-tip, but a paper stick instead of the flimsy colored plastic.
[02:12] mullacc I have some at home that are wood stick
[02:12] loquacious q-tips have that extra stuff on the end that supposed makes it softer.
[02:12] loquacious the wood stick ones are nice. kinda over the top though. bahahaha
[02:13] loquacious I should post this whole log to metachat. COME TO IRC AND DISCUSS... Q-TIPS.
[02:13] mullacc I have classy ears
[02:14] mullacc I'm there are quite a few ppl just waiting to divulge their q-tip ritual
[02:14] mullacc I'm sure there are

Wow, I miss all the fascinating bits.

Hmm. Eat a whole garlic clove? It probably works because it scares the bejeezus out of the critters.

What about garlic flavored Q-tips?

Glad I left early. You kids is just too wild.

Why must my life always be full of regrets?

IS THIS NOT A SHOUTING THREAD?

This thread gives new meaning to the term "waxing nostalgic."

How can you stand eating raw, hot garlic?

It's not so bad, actually.

Martha, a pretty young woman from Tennessee lives at my apartment complex. She is stereotypically Southern dainty and foofy in about every respect--save for her inclination to get down and dirty talking personal plumbing. She is so famous for it around the place that she even makes fun of herself when she does it, as in "OK, OK, Vagina Monologue, guys! True Story!"

The best one was, after she'd had a couple of beers this summer and regaled the whole courtyard with the story of her attempt to cure a yeast infection with a clove of garlic threaded with a string tampon style. I don't think I need to tell you what happened next. But after that...

First of all, she was tasting and sweating garlic the whole time, starting about an hour after insertion. And worse, the string disappeared right after insertion and it took two whole garlic tasting and aroma exuding days for her and her boyfriend to get the damn thing out.

She at least spared us the details on that part.

And it didn't cure the yeast infection.

So, girls, take a tip from Martha and don't be trying garlic clove cure.

I heard a story second hand about a girl who tried to cure a yeast infection with a garlic clove in the manner described above, and when she got on the elevator, one of her co-workers said "Wow, that smells delicious! What did you bring for lunch?"

Had they heard that story then, I know what my nieces would say, back in their high school days:
Tuna!