SarahFair
Senior Member
My son is in wrestling and does wear ear protection, but sometimes it's not enough..
He mentioned having cauliflower ear to me for the first time about a week ago, but I thought once you had it, you had it, but a couple days ago he said it got hit again, it got bigger and the coach said it needed to be drained..
I didn't know there was such a short window to drain it til today, and from what everyone is saying a lot if Dr's don't even know what they are doing, and by the time we got an appointment, I didn't want it to be too late.
Poking around the internet, I've seen most people in combat sports just learn to drain it themselves, so naturally I went and bought all the supplies
I used a 25g needle from the pharmacy, cleaned the area real good, and drained the syringe full (1ml) of a clear yellow liquid, hardly any blood towards the end.
The ear still has some swelling (Im betting there is another pocket), but my son had had enough, so I put antibiotic ointment on it, some gauze over it, and clamped it with 2 magnets (not as strong as I was hoping it'd be).
From what I've read, the clear yellow liquid is a seroma vs if it was blood I had drained it would have been a hematoma.
I'm reading seromas mostly hall naturally and will absorb back.
So my question is, for anyone that has dealt with cauliflower ear, what type did you have, what was your experience, and did yours need continuous draining?
I followed this video, did exactly as he did and got the same results.
He mentioned having cauliflower ear to me for the first time about a week ago, but I thought once you had it, you had it, but a couple days ago he said it got hit again, it got bigger and the coach said it needed to be drained..
I didn't know there was such a short window to drain it til today, and from what everyone is saying a lot if Dr's don't even know what they are doing, and by the time we got an appointment, I didn't want it to be too late.
Poking around the internet, I've seen most people in combat sports just learn to drain it themselves, so naturally I went and bought all the supplies
I used a 25g needle from the pharmacy, cleaned the area real good, and drained the syringe full (1ml) of a clear yellow liquid, hardly any blood towards the end.
The ear still has some swelling (Im betting there is another pocket), but my son had had enough, so I put antibiotic ointment on it, some gauze over it, and clamped it with 2 magnets (not as strong as I was hoping it'd be).
From what I've read, the clear yellow liquid is a seroma vs if it was blood I had drained it would have been a hematoma.
I'm reading seromas mostly hall naturally and will absorb back.
So my question is, for anyone that has dealt with cauliflower ear, what type did you have, what was your experience, and did yours need continuous draining?
I followed this video, did exactly as he did and got the same results.