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What Could Cause Severe Pain In Tragus?
I do not have a piercing in my tragus but it is severely painful. There is sharp radiating sensation down the right side of my face. Above the area you can feel some kind of enlargement. I have had flu sx times 1 week now. Is this normal? And what should I do?
Mon, 28 Apr 2014
hello, in my opinion u have otitis externa, where superficial skin of pinna and ear canal gets infected. it can be due to simple injury by ear cleaning or sleeping on tragus or could be due to insect bite. in my opinion u need to take antibiotic course, tab . ciprofloxaxin 500 mg twice daily with Brufen 400 mg for 5 days relives ur problem. if d pain increasing kindly show it to an ent surgeon
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