The pinna is a cosmetically important part and functions to help you hear the sound efficiently. If the shape if the auricle changes, it may have an advere effect on the aesthetics and may make it uncomfortable to hear the sound. There are many causes of swollen auricle. It can be happened when you hurt your external ear or get infected with bacteria or virus, but there are also cases that the cause is unknown.
If the ear is swollen due to bacteria or virus, severe pain may appear. However, the treatment is simple. After using actibiotic injection and ointment for about a week, most of the ears return to their former shape. Most of these cases respond well to penicillin based antibiotics, but some cases need antibiotics like quinolone for pseudomonas bacteria.
However, in most cases where the ear is swollen after hitting the ear, it takes a long time to heal. When the ear hurts, it takes a long time to heal. In that case, blood vessels around the ear cartilage could be ruptured, causing bleeding. At first, ear pain may also appear. However, there are cases that there is no pain at all, only the ear is swollen. If you aspirate the swollen ear with a syringe, there may be some black blood clot. Therefore you can guess that a considerable amount of time has already passed since the bleeding.
Usually, after aspiratio of hematoma, steroid is injected according to the aspirated amount. The most commonly used is triamcinolone. This will prevent hypertrophy of the cartilage. Compression dressing is also done around the ear. This is because ear hematoma can recur even after small trauma.
What do you think of the ears of boxers, judo fighter and UFC fighters? Their also had ear hematoma caused by frequent trauma. Ear hemotoma can cause deformation of the ear shape if not treated in time. The shape of the ear is deformed like a 'cabbage shaped ear'. It's like a very hard, big sized stone sticking to your ear.
The real problem with ear hematoma is 'relapse'. If so, what should be done to prevent the recurrence of ear hematoma?. First, you need to be careful not to irritate your ears. You should refrain from strenuous exercise or physical activity for the time being. Also, be careful not to lie on your side towards the hematoma. The second is cold massage. You should constantly reduce edema of ears with a ice pack.
Sometimes you may worry about how to treat ear swelling that has already hardened. Because it is already changed like a stone, it cannot be treated with any medicine or injection. Therefore, it must eventually be resolved through surgery. The skin of the ear is opended and the hardened cartilage is removed using a surgical knife or drill device. At this time, the aesthetic sense is really important for surgical results. This is because the symmetry with the contralateral ear and the curved shape of the ear must be accurately reproduced to return to the beutiful shape of the ear. After surgery, the outside of ther ear will be covered with a bandage for several days. Afterwards, additional corrections may be made for the cosmetic part.
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