Most of the swelling of pierced ears is caused by local infection and inflammation due to lack of disinfection and cleaning. Can be improved by local cleaning, antibiotics, anti-inflammatory, applying ointment, etc., and the swelling needs to go down through a period of time and need to standardize the treatment, there is no fastest way to reduce swelling.
1. Local cleaning: Use alcohol swabs to clean the secretions around the ear holes, because alcohol can coagulate the bacterial proteins, so as to achieve the purpose of killing bacteria.
2. Apply ointment: apply with antibiotic ointment, which is a topical medicine, commonly available as erythromycin ointment for skin bacterial infections.
3. Antibiotic anti-inflammatory: use cephalosporins, azithromycin or quinolones as prescribed by the doctor. Because antibiotics can inhibit the synthesis of bacterial cell walls, so can play a certain antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effect.
Be careful not to touch the affected ear when sleeping and avoid squeezing. Pay attention to keeping the area around the ear clean and dry when you wash your face, eat a light diet, and eat less spicy and stimulating food.