Why is there a bump on my ear after i got my cartilage pierced?

Answer 1

I think you're referring to hypertrophic scarring. Its just a type of scar tissue. it doesn't happen every time you pierce cartilage, but it's pretty common with cartilage piercings. Its pretty easy to treat though.

Answer 2

The "bump" is actually a "hypertrophic reaction", inexperienced piercers and internet body piercing geniuses will call it a "keloid scar". This is completely incorrect. This bump is caused by several things all of which are irritants to the new piercing triggering the "reaction" by the formation of the "bump". Aftercare being the number one cause, generally due to a lack of proper cleaning technique and useless aftercare "product". Piercings need only three things to heal with little or no problem. 1) Good rest: Proper sleep is important, this is when the body does it's "fix and repair" so getting good quality rest is important. 2) Good diet: Proper eating is important, without a balanced reasonable diet your body doesn't get the vitamins and minerals it burns during the day and really uses at night when you are sleeping. Remember the "fix and repair" cycle during your sleep period, without specific minerals and vitamins the body can't repair damaged tissue as effectively prolonging the healing period for piercings. 3) Aftercare: Remember the story your piercer told you about using this and that for cleaning the piercing? Well it's partly true, the piercing needs to be rinsed daily with clean water and the jewellery needs to be moved to rinse the discharge out of the piercing. Yes you were told not to move the jewellery, well that's wrong. We need to get the fresh clean water into the piercing to rinse the discharge the body is forming out of the piercing to allow the new tissue to grow inside the piercing. What about sea salt soaks, aftercare solution, aftercare spray, eye of newt, essence of worm wart? Well I am going to catch flack for this but it's all a cash grab. Your body is quite capable of healing a piercing without all the woo woo magic crap. Just rinse the piercing daily in the shower while moving the jewellery to allow the fresh water into the piercing to do it's job and the piercing will heal just like magic. Now how do you rinse inner ear cartilage piercings with running water without almost drowning yourself? Well it's called an irrigation syringe available at most drug stores for a couple of bucks, this allows you to get the water into the spot with ease and drowning is never an issue. Flush the piercing daily in the shower before you exit, do this daily and the bump with disapear all on it's own. The above information is based on over 28,000 piercings professionally performed by me over 23 years as a professional body piercer and former first responder.

Answer 3

Because it is infected. you need to clean it and let it heal on its own

Answer 4

its just sore or mainly infected