
How to treat a piercing infection - Mayo Clinic
2025年2月26日 · This is probably a minor infection that you could try treating at home unless the piercing is through cartilage. Cartilage is the hard tissue in the rim of the ear. Seek medical care for a cartilage piercing that is painful, itchy, swollen, and very red or dark. Color changes may be easier or harder to see depending on your skin color.
Ear infection (middle ear) - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic
2021年6月23日 · Ear infections that happen again and again can lead to serious complications: Impaired hearing. Mild hearing loss that comes and goes is fairly common with an ear infection, but it usually gets better after the infection clears. Ear infections that happen again and again, or fluid in the middle ear, may lead to more-significant hearing loss.
Piercings: How to prevent complications - Mayo Clinic
2024年3月1日 · An infection can cause redness, pain and swelling after a piercing. A fluid that looks like pus also may come out of the pierced hole when there's an infection. Other skin problems. Piercing can lead to keloids. Keloids are raised areas on the skin caused by an overgrowth of scar tissue. Mouth concerns.
Ear infection (middle ear) - Diagnosis & treatment - Mayo Clinic
2021年6月23日 · If your child has certain conditions, your child's doctor may recommend a procedure to drain fluid from the middle ear. If your child has repeated, long-term ear infections (chronic otitis media) or continuous fluid buildup in the ear after an infection cleared up (otitis media with effusion), your child's doctor may suggest this procedure.
Nickel allergy - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic
2021年8月3日 · Nickel allergy is often associated with earrings and other jewelry. But nickel can be found in many everyday items, such as coins, zippers, eyeglass frames, cosmetics, detergents, and even some electronics, including cellphones and laptops. It may take repeated or prolonged exposure to items containing nickel to develop a nickel allergy.
Tinnitus - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
2022年11月30日 · Ear infection or ear canal blockage. Your ear canals can become blocked with a buildup of fluid (ear infection), earwax, dirt or other foreign materials. A blockage can change the pressure in your ear, causing tinnitus. Head or neck injuries. Head or neck trauma can affect the inner ear, hearing nerves or brain function linked to hearing.
How you hear - Mayo Clinic
2025年2月25日 · A narrow channel called the auditory tube links the middle ear to the back of the nose and upper part of the throat. This channel also is called the eustachian tube. The tube opens and closes at the throat end to keep the pressure in the middle ear the same as the pressure outside the ear.
Corticosteroid (otic route) - Mayo Clinic
To use . ear drops: Lie down or tilt the head so that the affected ear faces up. Gently pull the earlobe up and back for adults (down and back for children) to straighten the ear canal. Drop the medicine into the ear canal. Keep the ear facing up for several (about 5) minutes to allow the medicine to run to the bottom of the ear canal.
Outer ear infection - Mayo Clinic
Redness of the ear canal, ear pain, draining fluids and discharge of pus are signs of swimmer's ear (otitis externa). Untreated, the infection can spread to nearby tissue and bone. There is a problem with information submitted for this request.
Nickel allergy - Diagnosis & treatment - Mayo Clinic
2021年8月3日 · Nickel allergy, often caused by nickel in jewelry, is a form of contact dermatitis. Things such as coins and zippers also may provoke nickel allergy.