Preauricular Sinus Infection Home Treatment
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Preauricular sinus infection home treatment. There has been no associated fatality due to preauricular sinus infection. Pain fever pus discharge. Preauricular sinus is usually asymptomatic unless it is infected. In atypical cases the opening appears below your ear canal closer to the lobe.
Acta otorhinolaryngol ital. Specific conditions may arise such as malar ulceration unilateral facial cellulitis abscess on the anterior of the involved ear recurrent and chronic sinus orifices drainage and otitis externa. Morbidity associated with preauricular sinus includes ulceration recurrent infection on the site scarring facial cellulitis and pyoderma. Post operative recurrence may occur because the sinus tract was not completely removed.
Its marked by a tiny opening to the preauricular sinus tract right in front of your ear and above your ear canal. A preauricular ear pit is essentially a preauricular sinus tract traveling under your skin that doesnt belong there. Preauricular pits or fissures are located near the front of the ear and mark the entrance to a sinus tract that may travel under the skin near the ear cartilage. Preauricular sinus infection in this video dr kevin soh explains how a preauricular ear sinus can get infected and how surgery is performed to resolve the problem.
Preauricular sinus can have some clear or whitish discharge even when it is not infected. In this case just keep the area clean by washing with soapy warm water. Surgical treatment of recurring preauricular sinus. If there are signs of infection.