Is My Rook Piercing Starting To Become Infected

Is my rook piercing infected?

You know when a piercing is infected if yellow or green fluids or pus is coming out. White and clear discharge is normal and part of the healing process.

It could be a start of an infection.

Stop using the solution ( which is called H2ocean spray ) and do sea salt soaks soaks instead. They work 300% better to avoid/treat infections and also help the piercing to heal. Sea salt soaks are needed especially for cartilage piercings which are hard to heal in the first place.

Warm water (8oz) + non iodized salt (1/4 teaspoon) mixed in a cup. Soak the piercing in for 10 minutes, 2 times a day. Use a q-tip to clean around the piercing thoroughly, rinse with water and pat it dry with a paper towel.

Non iodized salt is cheap and easy to find.

To take down the swelling use ice cubes wrapped with clean paper towels. Apply on the piercing for a few seconds, remove and re-apply.

Ibuprofen will also help.

Until the piercing is fully healed you don't : Touch the piercing, twist the jewelry, change the jewelry or take it out, sleep on it, play with it, but only touch it with freshly washed hands to clean it.

Cartilage piercings have their ups and downs while healing. They can stay irritated, swollen and painful for long, bumps can be formed around them etc. All this goes away with proper care but happen again days or even months later. So you need to be extra careful with those piercings and follow the aftercare instructions by the book to keep the piercing and yourself healthy.

Infected rook piercing?

The rook is very prone to be an incredibly painful one to heal - I should know, I have both pierced. The pain is gonna be there for a while, sorry to say. I'm not one to suggest putting cream on piercings as it kind of suffocates it, but I'm no doctor. I would say to keep taking the amoxicillin but instead of the cream to just do sea salt soaks... its very soothing as well, the warm cotton ball soothes your ear. Also like the first girl said, ibuprofen can make a big difference to swelling. I couldn't sleep on one of my rooks from November to February as it was so painful, the other one I could sleep on after a couple of weeks but I've had it for about 2 months now and it still acts up constantly. Sorry but it's not going to be a fun piercing to heal, but once it FINALLY is, it'll be lovely =)

Infected rook piercing?

What you have is a keloid. You can get these 2 ways. 1. touching it a **** ton. --You can't deny it. It's hard not to touch a new piercing. 2. Alcohol/Saline products. DON'T USE THEM. Ditch the salt too. DIAL ANTIBACTERIAL UNSCENTED SOAP. The keloid is actually covering a good part of the hole, nothing has moved. You need to stop touching it, the oil in your fingers irritates it. Also, if you think it's infected, go back to the piercer. They have hospital solution that kills the infection within seconds of reaching the infected area. 1. Stop touching it. 2. Use that soap with a Q-tip twice a day. Make sure you get all the soap out of around the area. 3. STOP TOUCHING IT. 4. Don't change it if you've not exceeded the period of time that the piercer told you before you can change it. 5. Don't move the piercing around a lot.
-- IF you want it to get better. DON'T LISTEN TO THE IDIOTS TELLING YOU STUPID STUFF IN THE POSTS BEFORE MINE.

Is my rook piercing infected?

I got my rook pierced a week ago today, and I'm concerned it may be infected. When I first got it, it was too painful to even thoroughly clean it(but I did) and the bar wouldn't move or spin. I couldn't sleep on it or even touch that ear without a ton of pain. Now, a week later, it doesn't hurt to touch as much, more so just uncomfortable. Still hurts a little to clean, which I do twice a day with antibacterial soap. And it moves when I clean it now, up and down and spins. I can sleep on it, and my ear no longer aches. It's not leaking anything besides the occasional pinprick of blood when I'm cleaning. The only thing I'm worried about is the swelling. That area or my ear is twice the size of m other, not pierced ear. Is this normal? Is it infected? What should I do,

Rook piercing -- infection traveling???

I had my rook pierced about a year ago, and everything was fine for the first few months. About 6 months after the initial piercing, it started to give me trouble -- a little swelling, bubbles around the entrance of the piercing, etc. I tried SSS, switching to a barbell, switching back to a ring, everything, but it just wouldn't get better. Finally I decided to just remove the piercing all together -- fa month later, my ear is still pussing. Fast-forward to present day, and the initial site of my rook is back to normal, but the pussing "blob" has traveled outward towards the side of my ear. Now the second "blob" has calmed down, but I'm afraid it may come back.

My main question is -- is this a traveling infection, and am I at risk for ear collapse?? Though is feels and looks fine now, it is possible there is still infection trapped in my ear?

Also, should I be concerned about getting another ear piercing? I would hate to have lasting problems, but I still love piercings!

Is my rook piercing infected?

Do non ionised sea salt soaks 3 times a day until the lump goes away then go down to 2 times a day.

If you have developed any type of scarring it is likely to be hypertrophic and will go away eventually, if it was keloid it would grow out of control regardless of what you did.

If the lump starts growing out of control you need to see your piercer then your doctor to confirm it is keloid scarring in which case you will need to take the piercing out to prevent irritation (which can encourage growth in keloids).

How do I tell if my rook piercing is infected?

How do I tell if my rook piercing is infected?
I got my rook pierced a little over a week ago and the pain went away after three days. It wasn't red or swollen or even crusting up. All of a sudden two days ago (when the piercing was 5 days old) it started to hurt on it's only and the area immediately around it was red and a little bit of white stuff was oozing out of it. My whole ear is hurting just like it did the day it got pierced but the woman at the shop I went to just said to keep soaking it because it just looked "new" not infected.
Right now it's kinda hurting/throbbing without me even touching it. If I touch the outer shell of my ear lightly, the whole thing hurts.. and it itches sometimes too.

I don't sleep on that side so I'm not hurting the piercing unknowingly. I keep my hair out of it. I don't play with it. I clean it with a warm sea salt soak when I wake up and then again when i go to bed. I use dial to clean it after I shower and any time I come back from some place dusty I use a saline spray to rinse it out. I DID bump it ONCE.

I went to a doctor and she gave me antibiotics to take as well as a topical antibiotic cream to put on/around the piercing called: Mupirocin. Should I put this on my piercing?? Do you guys think it's getting infected or is this just normal?

This is what my rook piercing looks like as of this morning:
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I still get yellow crusties on my rook piercing, is it infected?

Cartilage piercings can be tricky to heal, so its not uncommon for lymph to still be coming from the piercing even years after being pierced.

Keep cleaning it and you'll be fine.