Raise your hand if you remember going to Claire’s to get your ears pierced for the first time. This adolescent rite of passage was pretty darn exhilarating — until it inevitably resulted in your first ...

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While getting your ears pierced is pretty safe, there's still a chance that your piercings could become infected. An ear piercing is a fresh wound that needs to be treated as such. This means keeping ...

Let's start with the big question: How can you tell if your piercing is infected? According to Thompson, the telltale signs of an infection are simple: "The area around the piercing is warm to the ...

Chronic otitis media (chronic ear infection) occurs when fluid behind your eardrum becomes infected and does not go away with antibiotics. Unlike swimmer’s ear that affects the external ear canal, a ...

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When an ear infection affects both ears, it’s considered a double ear infection. It’s important to seek medical care for any suspected ear infection to avoid complications like hearing loss. An ear ...

A middle ear infection often causes symptoms like ear pain, discharge, and hearing difficulties. Most ear infections go away within 2-3 days. Symptoms like high fever or sudden hearing loss require ...

Pain behind the ear could be related to the ear itself or nearby structures that share a nerve supply with it. Several possible causes of pain behind the ear, including jaw inflammation, a dental ...

Inflammation from an ear infection is just one of the causes of tinnitus. At-home and clinical treatment can typically resolve the symptoms. Tinnitus happens when you experience a sound like ringing, ...

An ear infection, acute otitis media, is a painful infection in your middle ear. Ear infections can happen in children and adults of all ages, typically after a cold, sore throat, or other respiratory ...

Instagram can teach you a lot about piercing trends, from the daith to the nipple to the one you'd never tell your grandma about. But what you won't learn on social media are the nitty-gritty details ...