A good friend has a severe ear infection. I used to have those a lot. I was told to keep my ears dry, I still do. I try to avoid having to consult doctors as much as I can. I did consult a good ENT doctor, fortunately. I had to keep going back and having my ear cleaned out by the specialist and he said it was a ''chronic'' infection. I had to use ear drops for a long time. (prescribed) Fortunately after a year (?) it cleared up. He said I had ''eczema in my ear canal'' It was ''my fault'' since I used to wash my hair every day and my ears got waterlogged.....