What should I do if my earbone stud is red and swollen and hurts?

Ear bone nail redness and swelling and accompanied by pain may be due to local inflammation caused by playing ear bone nail, as the blood supply to the ear is not rich, the ability to resist inflammatory infection is weak, easy to inflammation, can be treated by reducing the local stimulation, local hot or cold compresses, medication, incision and drainage of pus these methods. 1, reduce the local stimulation: after playing ear bone nail if redness and swelling and accompanied by pain, indicating local inflammation, need Avoid wearing any studs or earrings as much as possible. If you are afraid of closing the ear hole, you can use a less irritating plastic stick instead. If there are local blood scabs and secretions, you can wipe the area clean with medical hydrogen peroxide, dry the area and disinfect it with iodophor, then use sterile cotton swabs to apply ointment containing antibiotics such as gentamycin ointment and erythromycin ointment to the area to reduce the local stimulation of secretions so as not to aggravate the inflammation; 2. Local cold or hot compresses: If the symptoms of redness, swelling and pain appear within two days after the ear bone nail has just been pierced, you can If the symptoms appear two days after the ear bone nail, local cold compresses can be applied to speed up the local blood circulation, which can help reduce the swelling and pain in the ear; 3. If you are allergic to penicillin and cephalosporins, you can use azithromycin, erythromycin, roxithromycin, clarithromycin, etc. If the effect is not good after oral or intravenous antibiotics, you can take local samples for bacterial culture and choose sensitive antibiotics according to the results of bacterial culture. 4. If there is local abscess formation, the abscess should be incised and drained to help the rapid recovery of the redness and swelling with pain in the ear bone stud site. You should eat a light diet, avoid spicy and stimulating foods such as onion, garlic, leek, ginger and chili, avoid touching water to the ear and pay attention to local hygiene to avoid aggravating the infection. If the symptoms cannot be relieved for a long time, you should go to the hospital early.