I've read a lot of what everyone here has posted and I thought I'd chime in. I've had this condition for about 10 years now. My ears are red always now, just sometimes it's very little and sometimes they almost turn purple, but they're always red. The capilaries in my skin are enlarged from the constant bloodflow, so they pretty much stay somewhat red all the time now. There is no cure, it's caused by an over excited sympathetic nervous system in your brain (same thing that causes heavy sweating/facial blushing) There is no real rhyme or reason for when your ears go red, mostly it's brought on by social situations, stress, anger, heat, exercise, touching them....or none of the above. Sometimes just thinking about it is enough. That's why you've read some remedies on here that do nothing more than get your mind off of it (tongue to the roof of your mouth, or your hands over your eyes, etc.)The only thing that I've evrer heard of the cures it is a surgical proceedure called ETS, they go in and sever the nerves ending near your spine that cause it. After the sugery you won't sweat as much and you don't blush. I haven't considered the surgery yet, but I would like to hear from people that have.
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I've read a lot of what everyone here has posted and I thought I'd chime in.
I've had this condition for about 10 years now. My ears are red always now, just sometimes it's very little and sometimes they almost turn purple, but they're always red. The capilaries in my skin are enlarged from the constant bloodflow, so they pretty much stay somewhat red all the time now.
There is no cure, it's caused by an over excited sympathetic nervous system in your brain (same thing that causes heavy sweating/facial blushing)
There is no real rhyme or reason for when your ears go red, mostly it's brought on by social situations, stress, anger, heat, exercise, touching them....or none of the above. Sometimes just thinking about it is enough. That's why you've read some remedies on here that do nothing more than get your mind off of it (tongue to the roof of your mouth, or your hands over your eyes, etc.)The only thing that I've evrer heard of the cures it is a surgical proceedure called ETS, they go in and sever the nerves ending near your spine that cause it. After the sugery you won't sweat as much and you don't blush. I haven't considered the surgery yet, but I would like to hear from people that have.