Hello, The difficulty in trying to manage this at home is that this is a two part problem. First we need to remove the blood from the ear and provide some way to prevent it from happening again. And then we need to figure out why it happened to begin with, or it will recur or even happen to the other side. The cheapest options are to drain the fluid and place a steroid inside the ear flap. But this has a pretty high failure rate. I often place a drain and leave it in for 3 weeks. But I… Read more »