Can you lose hearing from an ear infection ? and how do you cure it without antibiotics?

Unlikely,??: Before antibiotics, people had ear infections. Without the aid of antibiotics many bacterial infections self healed over a 6-8 week period, some did not. Chronic unresolved bacterial ear infections can lead the ear bones to freeze/hearing loss.Sometimes infection went into the bone & caused bone infections that needed surgical drainage.Some infections are viral &self heal quickly.It's your choice