Hi Gary; I suspect the infection may be 'cooking' in the eustachian - warm, wet, relatively undisturbed, 'specially in those of us with narrow ones and/or sinus trouble. Perhaps dropping liquid into the outer ear stimulates the eustachian to open or dry up a bit?
Gary Green wrote: > On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 11:55 AM, Catherine Creel wrote: > > > > > A look at Gray's Anatomy online will show how the > > ear is connected to the entire body. > > The middle ear, yes has the eustachian tube connecting to the > nasopharynx, yes, but there is no patent connection directly from the > outer ear to the middle ear. The External Auditory Meatus is lined with > "skin" and squamous epithelium, neither of which are any degree > permeable under normal conditions. > > > and the medical illustrations of of Frank Netter are without compare. !!!!!!!!!!! > if you were to take cultures of the "germs" that > inhabit the outer or middle ear I do not believe you would find these > places incubators of the strains normally associated with either a upper > or lower UTI. Reminds me of a joke . . . .<g> -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
