Ear Piercing Problem??

[shellynn24]

I have 2 cartilage piercings in both ears. I got them done at least 3 years ago and I still have pain and occasional infections. I vote for the neosporin, but not alcohol! Alcohol can cause your earings to discolor, the best thing for a piercing is the cleaning solution you can get at Claire's or the Icing. It doesn't burn or hurt or cause any damage to your piercings. The cartilage will never fully heal, meaning you can never take the earings out for a while and then just put them back in. It's going to be a long hard road to healing, but I think it's worth it.

 

[lauran cameron]

I got them done at least 3 years ago and I still have pain

Same here...it all just stopped a few months ago

 

[little rose]

Hi

Everyone in our family has simply used a salt solution. Just need to ensure that you bath it regularly i.e. at least once a day. Nobody has had any problems with this. Was recommended to us by the lady who did the piercings.

 

[stingfancb]

Have to also say no to peroxide or alcohol. Between my daughter and myself, we have many piercings. (Okay, that sounds really wierd!) Anyway, we have found the best to be a mild soap/water and then Bactine. A few times we used the sea salt/water, if the piercing was not looking the best, but usually did not need it.

 

[JessRocks83]

Hi everybody. I haven't posted in a long time. I had to share however. I had the same problem with my upper ear. I'm going to assume that it was done at a place like claries, ect. With a piercing gun. The problem is that the studs used for piercing guns are so short that the new piercing has no room to swell. It makes it hurt and sometimes (like with mine) the swelling will go around the stud and you'll end up at the doctor. I would suggest seeing, as I am not a piercing expert, that you take your daughter to a good, clean piercing place (which does body piercing) and have them change the stud out for a barbell. The piercing will become healthier almost right away. As for cleaning I would use salt solution such as saline (not for eyes, for wounds) and tea tree oil a few times day. I was told by my pierced that the worse thing you can do is take out a piercing. Because the infection could get closed up inside your ear. Oh by the way. Upper ear piercing HURT, very very much. No matter what. Good luck And Once I got a longer barbell in it, it calmed down! I still have it almost ten years later.

 

[Keebles]

I have 2 cartilage piercings in both ears. I got them done at least 3 years ago and I still have pain and occasional infections. I vote for the neosporin, but not alcohol! Alcohol can cause your earings to discolor, the best thing for a piercing is the cleaning solution you can get at Claire's or the Icing. It doesn't burn or hurt or cause any damage to your piercings. The cartilage will never fully heal, meaning you can never take the earings out for a while and then just put them back in. It's going to be a long hard road to healing, but I think it's worth it.

Hope you don't think bad of me, but I have to sort-of disagree...the cartilage will heal and the hole will stay (for quite at while at least)...the skin, however, will grow over rather quickly. I left mine out for five years (ex-husband thing) and had forgotten all about it even. Just recently I thought about having it re-done, but I got the old trusty flashlight out and had a look-see and, you guessed it, the cartilage hole was still there, clear as a bell! It took a simple push of a sharp-backed earring to ease it right through again! I have noticed that I can now leave it out for several days at a time where I never could before, but it does still get sore if I sleep on it wrong.

 

[person]

Some mall ear piercers say 'surgical spirit'.

 

[jlbower79]

Have you thought of going somewhere else.. like wal mart (if you're from the US im sure you have one in your town) and asking the jewelers there and maybe buying a bottle of what they give their customers? I just got my second whole lobe done two weeks ago at the mall (had it done at wal mart 5 years ago and i never healed up so I could change the earring so I finally just let it close up)... I'm sure any other place that does pericings would be happy to help. I would also call Merle Norman and complain, she had to have signed papers and she can probably go get a copy of it and it should state on their what the lady should had told her to do and what to clean it with. Both parties should have had to sign the contract.

Just so you know, the directions that were given to me for my piercing said that if their was any pain, redness, or major swelling to remove the piercing asap. Mine was painful for a day and red for an hour... but it's fine now. It'll be ready for my new Christmas earrings by my trip!

Good luck!
Jaime

 

[solferino]

I had a cartilege piercing done a few years ago and it was recommended by the piercer (with a needle, guns are bad news for many reasons) that salt water is the best for cleaning and to do it after showering. If the piercing is moved and there are crusties on it and it's turned it will irritate the piercing.

But if you're in the shower and the crusties get softened and washed away, you rinse it with a saltwater solution and use a dab of bacitracin on the metal and move it around.

I was told by the piercer that peroxide and rubbing alcohol irritate and can lengthen the healing process.

As I understand it any cartilege piercing takes almost a year to completely heal through. I don't remember it hurting for long though.

 

[tink&cinderella]

I agree with the posters who suggested Polysporin - however they have Polysporin for kids (also here in Canada) and I highly recommend it. I also use alchohol to disinfect then heal and soothe with polysporin.

 

[gbanshee]

I had either neosporin or polysporin that also had a little lidocaine in it. took a little of the ouchie out.

 

[person]

But they simply call it surgical spirit at some piercers'.