Help with plugged ears (from cold)?

I got a
cold that's almost gone, but I always seem to get plugged ears on the tail end
of it. I was wondering if Polysporin ear/eye drops will work to unclog them?
Take a decongestant.
whatever you do, dont put a lit firecracker in your ear to try to unstop it. my
cousin earl did that a few years back, and long story short, we now call him
one-earred- earl.