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A member asked:

On sunday night my ear on the tragus realy hurts and now it's red and sore what is this ?

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Local infection: Sounds like this is a local infection. May want to see your doc if local warm packs do not resolve this quickly or if you find it is spreading.

Dr Blinski agreed

Answered 8/7/2016

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