Every year, more and more people go to hospitals, beauty salons, or stalls to get their ears pierced, and more and more people are getting their ears pierced in multiple parts of the same ear. The vast majority of people get their ears pierced and wear earrings to make a perfect reflection of female style.
However, in very few cases, a hard “swelling” grows in the area where the ear piercing was done, and it grows larger and larger. It is impossible to embellish your life with earrings, and in serious cases, the earlobes are unsightly and painful, causing great damage to the body and mind of women.
What is this swelling that grows around the eye of the ear?
In medical terms, this swelling is called a “keloid” and is one of the most unusual types of scarring. It appears as a benign tumor-like scar that grows beyond the original site of injury. It can be caused by a small injury and can grow in size beyond the site of the injury. It often rises above the surface of the skin, is red in color, and is hard in texture, hence the name “crab foot swelling.
There are many reasons for keloid scars. First of all, it is related to the person’s keloid body. In this type of person, the chest, abdomen, neck, upper arms, etc. are prone to visible scarring. The same condition can often be found even in members of their family. In fact, people with keloids on their earlobes tend to find the same lesions on other parts of their body as well.
Second: It is related to surgical operations. If the sterilization operation is not strict, bacteria or foreign bodies are brought into the wound, and the wound is repeatedly infected and does not heal, keloids are likely to develop.
Third: Medical research shows that: the nickel needle used for ear piercing or certain metal or ceramic earrings themselves can produce local contact inflammation in case of epidermal damage to the ear eye, prompting keloid scarring.
Since ear piercing can cause keloid scars, those who want to pierce their ears and wear earrings should proceed with caution. If you are a keloid, you should avoid using ear piercing to beautify yourself. You can choose clip-on earrings or, after piercing your ear, place non-metallic materials that are not easily allergic and then replace them with regular earrings after the trauma has healed. If available, you may want to do a skin patch test before piercing your ears in order to find out which metal components you are allergic to.
If you develop a keloid after ear piercing, you should go to the hospital as early as possible and your doctor will decide on a treatment method based on the specific situation. Generally speaking, in mild cases, certain hormonal drugs (such as Depo-Provera injection, i.e. compound betamethasone injection) can be injected into the scar to inhibit its continued growth, while in severe cases, complete surgical excision is feasible, with intraoperative hormonal injections, and two weeks after surgery, auxiliary isotope radiation therapy is required. Frequent hand touching of the ear piercing site during treatment is strictly prohibited to prevent its recurrence in a timely manner and to the maximum extent.