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A member asked:

My cartilage piercing is swollen and red. what could this be?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Which cartilage?: Ear? High ear piercings through cartilage have ^ risk of infection ; lack of healing because of minimal blood supply to auricular cartilage. You can develop a perichondral abscess as well auricular perichondritis. If you ear is hot, red, swollen or has increasing pain you need medical evaluation. This could be an infection.

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Answered 2/23/2018

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