Our nurse practitioner recommended that my 89 year old dad use a warm rice bag soak on a scab in his ear. (He scratched his ear inside on day and skin broke open and bled off and on for 3 days before creating a scab.) Now the scab is raised up and the area around it is dark red in color. The soreness has decreased but I m very concerned. He is being referred to the dermatologist who recently did surgery on two skin cancer spots on his forehead. How do we do this warm rice bag soak to loosen the scab? The rice bags I ve seen are too big to fit in his ear.