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What's this called and how can it be treated. It's been a week now or so.

Please any suggestions 🙏🙏🙏

I'm new guys. Please I'll appreciate if this moves to front page for more suggestions and solutions 🙏🙏🙏

Kelzlez:
✓ What's this called and how can it be treated. It's been a week now or so.
Please any suggestions 🙏🙏🙏
I'm new guys. Please I'll appreciate if this moves to front page for more suggestions and solutions 🙏🙏🙏

How is his mental health? Why did he allow this to get this bad? Is he not in pain? 🤔🤔🤔

My suggestion is that you take him straight to the hospital so a doctor can better diagnose him and possibly find out any other issues may have been keeping to himself. In the year 2026, going to hospital as soon as one detects an issue should have become normalized by adults. 🤔🤔

we will look into it. I pray it's something less serious

Kobojunkie:
How is his mental health? Why did he allow this to get this bad? Is he not in pain? 🤔🤔🤔

My suggestion is that you take him straight to the hospital so a doctor can better diagnose him and possibly find out any other issues may have been keeping to himself. In the year 2026, going to hospital as soon as one detects an issue should have become normalized by adults. 🤔🤔

Kelzlez:
we will look into it. I pray it's something less serious

Pray? Look into it? You don't want to take your grandfather immediately to the hospital, why? You want it to be less serious so he can continue walking around with inflamed ear and tissue because? 🤔🤔

We bought some medications for him today but I still need more info what really caused this

Kobojunkie:
Pray? Look into it? You don't want to take your grandfather immediately to the hospital, why? You want it to be less serious so he can continue walking around with inflamed ear and tissue because? 🤔🤔

Kelzlez:
We bought some medications for him today but I still need more info what really caused this

You bought medications without, in fact, knowing or having an actual diagnosis explaining what is wrong with him? 😮😮😮😮

We saw a medical practitioner and some drugs were prescribed.

Kobojunkie:
You bought medications without, in fact, knowing or having an actual diagnosis explaining what is wrong with him? 😮😮😮😮

Kelzlez:
We saw a medical practitioner and some drugs were prescribed.

What did the medical practitioner tell you caused the inflammation in his ear? What was the diagnosis? Please explain what you were told to us. Search Google for more information to help you understand what you were told, if needed. 🥱🥱🥱

OP this is what chatGPT told me about the picture you posted: 👇

I’m not a doctor, but I can share some likely possibilities based on how this looks and the fact that he’s elderly. A proper diagnosis would require a clinician to examine him.

Possible causes of this ear swelling:

1. Chondrodermatitis nodularis helicis (CNH)
- Common in elderly men
- A painful, firm swelling on the ear cartilage
- Often caused by long-term pressure, such as sleeping on one side for years
- Blood supply to ear cartilage reduces with age, making it vulnerable

2. Sebaceous (epidermoid) cyst
- A blocked oil gland under the skin
- Can cause a smooth, rounded swelling
- Usually painless unless infected

3. Ear cartilage infection (perichondritis)
-Causes swelling, warmth, and sometimes pain
- May follow minor trauma, scratching, or insect bites
- Needs medical treatment because cartilage infections can worsen

4. Keloid or hypertrophic scar
- More common in people with darker skin
- Usually follows piercing or previous injury
- Firm and slowly enlarging

5. Gouty tophus (less common, but possible in elderly men)
- Uric acid deposits can form nodules on the ear
- Often associated with a history of gout

When to seek medical care urgently:
- If the swelling is painful, red, warm, or discharging
- If it is growing rapidly
- If there is fever or hearing changes

What a doctor may do
- Physical examination
- Possibly ultrasound or biopsy if unclear
- Treatment may include pressure relief, medications, drainage, or minor surgery depending on cause

What does he have to lose, really?
Isn't he old enough for transitioning?

HelenaWills:
What does he have to lose, really?
Isn't he old enough for transitioning?

Its the prerogative of his minders........ they see something, they dislike it, they want something done about it.

Will you say this if he was your granny? You think I'm happy seeing it

HelenaWills:
What does he have to lose, really?
Isn't he old enough for transitioning?

He's around 80 years... maybe or maybe not a age related issue. Talking about sleeping one sided he normally does sleep one sided though I'm not comfortable seeing it

richiemcgold:
OP this is what chatGPT told me about the picture you posted:

I’m not a doctor, but I can share some likely possibilities based on how this looks and the fact that he’s elderly. A proper diagnosis would require a clinician to examine him.
Possible causes of this ear swelling
Chondrodermatitis nodularis helicis (CNH)
Common in elderly men
A painful, firm swelling on the ear cartilage
Often caused by long-term pressure, such as sleeping on one side for years
Blood supply to ear cartilage reduces with age, making it vulnerable

No not at all

Kobojunkie:
What did the medical practitioner tell you caused the inflammation in his ear? What was the diagnosis? Please explain what you were told to us. Search Google for more information to help you understand what you were told, if needed. 🥱🥱🥱

Kelzlez:
No not at all

Why would a medical practitioner give you medication without telling you exactly what the problem is that the medication is meant to treat? 🤔

Kelzlez:
➜He's around 80 years... maybe or maybe not a age related issue. Talking about sleeping one sided he normally does sleep one sided though I'm not comfortable seeing it

. There are 105-year-olds out there who are in good shape for their age who do not have such issues. There is a reason why his ear looks inflamed, and it does not look keloidal from the picture; He needs to be seen by a doctor to look at it, and at his stats is the best way to determine what it is and the cause. That he is old is no reason why he should not be comfortable and/or well.

Was your grand father a boxer or wrestler when he was young?

They call this stuff cauliflower ears, very common among boxers, kick boxers and boxers

what most of them do is to use a stringe and suck out the blood from it.

That's a follow come earpiece

He said it to be age related that the inflammation will reduce

Kobojunkie:
Why would a medical practitioner give you medication without telling you exactly what the problem is that the medication is meant to treat? 🤔

I saw something like this on Gemini. He will likely be in severe pain through this process. If only they is a less pain way of getting this off his ears I'll really appreciate

motymop:
Was your grand father a boxer or wrestler when he was young?

They call this stuff cauliflower ears, very common among boxers, kick boxers and boxers

what most of them do is to use a stringe and suck out the blood from it.

Are you human at all? Must you comment if you don't have something to say. If only they do mental test on people before their admission into this site, your likes who lack emotion intelligence won't be here

thesicilian:
That's a follow come earpiece

Kelzlez:
He said it to be age related that the inflammation will reduce

Age-related? A second opinion would not hurt at all, since simply saying something is age-related without explaining as to why it happened to the one ear and not the other, or any other tissue in the body, to me is weird as f-ck. Is the ear it happened to older than the other ear? 🥱🥱🥱

.....oh so sorry, I think he's pregnant with another grandchild, look well you will see the shape of the baby

Kelzlez:
What's this called and how can it be treated. It's been a week now or so.

Please any suggestions 🙏🙏🙏

I'm new guys. Please I'll appreciate if this moves to front page for more suggestions and solutions 🙏🙏🙏

In Plastic surgery, we call this a Cauliflower Ear(Auricular Haematoma >>>>bleeding into the ear between the overlying skin and the ear cartilage).
If it's still early, the blood collection can be drained through an incision; if not, the deformity will become permanent and will require a more specialized procedure for reconstruction.

Kobojunkie:
. There are 105-year-olds out there who are in good shape for their age who do not have such issues. There is a reason why his ear looks inflamed, and it does not look keloidal from the picture; He needs to be seen by a doctor to look at it, and at his stats is the best way to determine what it is and the cause. That he is old is no reason why he should not be comfortable and/or well.

Read about Cauliflower Ear and learn. You don't know this one; this one pass cho cho cho

A medical personnel should put in a syringe and suck out the fluid. Place him on antibiotics.
Happened to my then 16 year old back then.
A doctor sucked out the slimy liquid substance and placed him on a strong antibiotics. It's gone. 5 years going now, no more swelling.

You be "Baba Were"


God, I nor laugh oo

thesicilian:
That's a follow come earpiece

Ok but won't it hurt him? I was thinking other way less painful could be used

CJStarz:
A medical personnel should put in a syringe and suck out the fluid. Place him on antibiotics.
Happened to my then 16 year old back then.
A doctor sucked out the slimy liquid substance and placed him on a strong antibiotics. It's gone. 5 years going now, no more swelling.

You're c lown... Don't worry yours will come and you won't have a grandchild to care of you

ogahshtu:
.....oh so sorry, I think he's pregnant with another grandchild, look well you will see the shape of the baby

😂😂😂

Kobojunkie:
Age-related? A second opinion would not hurt at all, since simply saying something is age-related without explaining as to why it happened to the one ear and not the other, or any other tissue in the body, to me is weird as f-ck. Is the ear it happened to older than the other ear? 🥱🥱🥱

Kelzlez:
Are you human at all? Must you comment if you don't have something to say. If only they do mental test on people before their admission into this site, your likes who lack emotion intelligence won't be here

Calm down, before you go and rupture your brain aneurysm. Do you really need the opinion of strangers before you as a supposed adult can take your ailing father for a proper check up at a specialist centre? When you act like a clownn, you'll be treated as such. Simple.

Kelzlez:
Ok but won't it hurt him? I was thinking other way less painful could be used

My initial fear but then, it didn't hurt my boy
But then, strong antibiotics will dry it up.