Allergic to AirPod Pro eartips

I have also posted earlier and after reading these posts, I have decided to immediately stop using the APP and ordered an alternative to the the APP tips. There are a few but decided on Canopus

Although they were delivered the next day, I have not used them yet as I am waiting until I don't have the symptoms as I don't want to be confused with previous symptoms. Unfortunately, 72 hours later, I still have the itchiness, although no leaking in ears. I am however still using the old wired Apple EarPods. Not worse, not improving. Reading that some have symptoms since March makes me wonder how long this will take for me to completely recover. I used cotton swabs to apply Polysporin and a special oil with diluted tea tree oil. Although it has improved a bit, I don't think it is related to the treatment but more ceasing to use the APP. If it had been an infection, it would have been much better by now. This tells me that it is not an infection caused by the APP but an allergy which creates inflammation which itself triggers a defence mechanism by the body to produce the ear discharge. The way to recovery for me now is to avoid further contact with the APP, reduce as much as possible the use of any ear pods and get something the pharmacist might recommend to reduce the inflammation and is suitable for the ears.

I have also same kind of issue and what i have done is changed the Tips with an other one that was small in size and adjusted well in my ear and now i don't have any issue. What i recommend you is change the tips (available in market) as per your ear requirements.

I have also same kind of issue and what i have done is changed the Tips with an other one that was small in size and adjusted well in my ear and now i don't have any issue. What i recommend you is change the tips (available in market) as per your ear requirements.http://flightscheck.co.uk/

I changed the tips and also put sleeves on just to make sure the body was at least partially covered. I've been fine now. It can be worth a try. I also tried the memory foam tips first and they were fine but then decided to try new silicone tips and like them better. I guess i'm lucky this all worked for me.

Like everyone else here, I had the same problem. I am an avid Apple user and annoys me the fact Apple always handle issues like this as no events. Apple is aware but denies it until the problem is secretly resolved and it seems as it's never happened.

It happened to me with MacBooks, Timemachines, Iphones problems.

I'm also a physician and it seems to me that the problem is related to the whole surface of APP, because the eczema appears in the ear canal, the outside part where the body touches and even in the skin where the outside "handle" tip touches.

I will try not only change ear tips but use body and "handle"covers. Maybe it's also worth cover the inner case too.

I'm curious if that worked for you Laguq_Ada.

There are a lot of folks who said they could return them even after the return date. I bought mine through amazon back in April. They have been very liberal about this but I kept them after new tips and a cover on the body of them made them usable. In spite of that I still think about possibly returning them when I hear how bad your reaction is. I had drainage and itching and saw my doctor in a telemedicine visit. I treated it with debrox to clear the wax and steroid drops for the inflammation. I’ve been doing fine now but have read from some folks in this discussion that they became more sensitive to other ear buds too after this. Everyone has a different range of experiences. There are some that wrote who their Apple rep was and they got a refund plus even reimbursement for their related expenses. Unless one of them writes now you might have to scroll through a lot of comments. I would let apple know that others could return it after the return date.

In my case, I saw a dermatologist instead of a ENT. She looked at it and said:

-eczema in both ears at same time. What kind of earbuds you're using?

-APPs

-Stop using them. Use this cream (corticoid+antibiotic).

5 seconds and the correct diagnostic.

If your inner ear isn't affected, just the skin of the outer ear, I recommend see a dermatologist.

After jumping though the appropriate hoops. Apple is gonna buy them back. FYI just to be sure I wore some Beats that have ear inserts like AirPods Pro but not silicon. No problems at all, is def. the ipods! As an experiment cleaned my ears (hydrogen peroxide on cotton swab) and the pods (with hydrogen preroxide and alcohol) and put them on for a timed 5 minutes. Two hours later, drainages that last almost 48 hours with the following crust. Wore the beats for an hour, no problem at all! All for now!

Airpod Pro:

Took 6 months for me to have the symptoms: liquids in the ears, skin peeling off in side the ear, itchy

After one week stopping wearing it go back to normal.

now just wearing those eartips for 45 min trigger the reaction!

First time this happens to me.

Hope Apple is working on it.

It took about 3 months of daily wearing for 1 hour for my ears to become allergic to the APP's. In the last month my ears would be super itchy then finally my right ear drum started feeling like there was pressure in it which caused sound to be muffled. A small amount of fluid would also come out after using APP's. Ive been using in ear headphones for 20 years and have never had a single issue. I went to an ENT and thankfully my ear wasnt infected but he did say there was a lot of swelling in the canal. He wanted to send me to get an MRI but I cant do that so I declined. I immediately stopped using the APP's and its been about a week and a half and my right ear feels/sounds 95% normal again. I really like the APPs and dont want to give up on them but there's no way Im putting them in my ears with the stock ear tips. Has anyone tried the AZLA XELASTEC tips on amazon?

Oh wow I can't believe how many people are having this problem. I definitely had no idea what it was. I didn't even use them that much, only few minutes a day. But after about 6 months, my ears started itching like crazy and leaking clear fluid at nights out of nowhere. My ears were so f-ed that even slight touch would cause them to leak. The doctor said its chronic eczema in both ears and on ear lobes as well. No infection apparently. I just got some cream for it and that helped a little. Now its been more than a month and my ears are slowly getting better but I'm scared to put anything in them anymore lol. I sold the pros of course. I purchased Beats Solo Pro and they're actually better so I'm happy with that. it's just weird because I've never ever had any problems like that.

I tried the replacement memory foam ones, no change at all. Apple refunded my money back even after 6 months, but I did buy mine straight from an Apple store. My reaction started approximately 3 -6 months and not straight away.

I returned them in March/April time, carried on using my Bose over ear headphones with no problems at all.

I have recently in the last two weeks brought the 2nd generation AirPods with wireless charger and using them with no problems as I did with my 1st generation ones which I lost hence I upgraded to AirPods Pro's but have now gone back to normal AirPods but 2nd generation.

If you're having problems with the AirPods Pro then changing the ear pieces may not as so many have reported, thread has been going for a long time.

Just get apple to refund you, they paid all the postage costs for the product to be sent away for testing, It's my belief they have not got to the bottom of it yet.

I feel better knowing now that this is a problem with the AirPods Pro. I got them on release and immediately loved them until my ears were so infected I couldn't stand to touch them. My doctor was really amazed. He said you really got this from earbuds? I mean oozy smelly crusty painful red ears. I'm sorry you're in pain. Ciprodex is an expensive ear drop that really worked for me. It was cheaper to get directly through a patient first than to get a prescription and take it to the CVX.

The above said, I also wondered if the inside of the case was contaminated. I cleaned my AirPods with rubbing alcohol to try to get any possible residue off. I need to do the same with the case. I found Neosporin on my outer ear Only helped it heal (never inside). That and absolutely don’t rub it. I’ve been through this 3 times now. I also found rinsing with hydrogen peroxide helped put a stop to the itching but saline might have done the same.

I didn't realize the cause right away, but as soon as I got my new AirPod Pros & started using them, I got what appeared to be double swimmer's ear infections that same week. I am not someone who was even prone to ear infections as a child - I think I've had 1-2 in my life. So suffice it to say this was the worst I've ever had -- severe expression of every possible symptom from itching to redness to drainage to compromising my hearing...& sleep, since the drainage would leak out of my ears at night onto my pillow, it was horrible. During the day it would leak down the side of my face while I was just sitting there talking -- super attractive. The doctor gave me ear drops but even so, it took over a week to fully resolve. It was painful & messy. Fast forward nearly 6 months later, I have not used them since but was brave enough to try using them again yesterday for less than 1 hour & immediately had a reaction as soon as I removed them from my ears. They are red, itchy & swollen. So I can only assume I too am allergic to the silicone tips -- which I also didn't realize was a possibility, since I don't have any other known allergies to silicone. Thank you to the previous users for sharing that here; does anyone know if you can replace the silicon tips with tips made from other material? I have Bose earbuds with rubbery tips that have never caused me any problems in the 15 years I've been using that brand/model.