What to do if your ear piercing is swollen and hard

Patients with swollen and hard ear holes need to undergo relevant treatment, including local treatment and surgical treatment, as follows: 1. Local treatment: Patients need to do a good job of local disinfection treatment. Swollen and hard ear holes generally indicate the presence of local infection, which leads to local granulation or scar hyperplasia after infection, and this performance will occur after hyperplasia. It is clinically recommended that patients go to an ENT clinic to find a doctor and use medical alcohol or medical iodophor to do local disinfection treatment every day to reduce local infection, after disinfection, you can also apply antibiotic ointment locally to further play an anti-inflammatory role. 2. Surgical treatment: when the local inflammation is well controlled, the hard stuff may disappear in some patients, if the locally formed keloid does not disappear and continues to grow, patients It is possible that a keloid removal surgery is needed to reduce the local swelling by removing the keloid. Patients are advised to keep their ear piercings clean and hygienic, and not to squeeze them when they sleep or wash their hair in water. Sometimes it is only if there is local contamination or infection that may lead to this performance.