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A few years back, I had an earache. I get swimmers ear often. I needed to get ear drops. I went to Walgreens, and after I bought them I realized it was Homeopathic. Meaning it was just water and would make my earache worse. It wasn’t even labelled.
12 upvotes, 6 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "A few years back, I had an earache. I get swimmers ear often. I needed to get ear drops. I went to Walgreens, and after I bought them I realized it was Homeopathic. Meaning it was just water and would make my earache worse. It wasn’t even labelled."
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Anonymous 25w

This example says homeopathic, what I bought did not. This image is to explain the ingredients system.

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Anonymous 25w

I fear you should look at ingredients when buying otc medication, or at least look it up

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 25w

I only realized it was homeopathic because I read the ingredients label. It had the “10x” “20x” etc system you see here. I listen to a podcast about health misinformation and that’s the only reason I realized this was homeopathy. These “10x” stuff is how many times it’s been diluted.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 25w

The idea behind homeopathy is thinking that water has memory, and that “like cures like.” So they put something in that causes the symptom you are trying to cure, and then dilute it (10x means they put one drop of the substance in, mixed it, then removed a drop from that mixture and diluted it again). They think more dilution means more powerful.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 25w

So this shit is literally just water with maybe a trace amount of various poisons. But it’s labeled as medicine. Normal people will buy this completely unaware. And in my case it would make my earaches worse if I had used it.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 25w

This is a good point. But at the time I just grabbed it because ear drops are almost always just some alcohol. But I looked at the ingredients in the parking lot and was able to return it and get some real stuff. This post was mostly to make people aware of how to recognize homeopathic medicine and that it’s not real.

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