I got my ears pierced n now theyre infected??
did you get them pierced with a gun or a needle? If you got them pierced with a gun, which can't be sterilized, then you are probably having a reaction to the jewelry that you got pierced with, so I would switch out the jewelry to something that is nickel-free If you got pierced with a needle you might still be having an allergic reaction to the jewelry if it is cheap stainless. I would find a body piercing parlor in your area that you can have them change the jewelry out to and also what are you cleaning your piercings with? http://www.tommytbodypiercing.com this site lists all the types of jewelry they pierce with with pictures...I get all my piercings done there
My 5 year old's pierced ears are infected. What do I do?
Many things could have caused the infection in your daughter's ears. If both her ears are infected and the infections came on rather quickly, most likely she has a mild cold or a mild case of the flu. If this is the cause, the infections should disappear shortly after the cold or flu runs its course. In the meantime, continue cleaning her ears and earrings with peroxide as you have been doing. When you have the earrings out of her ears, check them carefully for any scab tissue or other foreign matter that may be stuck to them. This could be why she screams when you remove her earrings. If you find anything on her earrings, do whatever is necessary to remove it so her earrings will slide easily in and out of her ears. The posts on the earrings used to pierce her ears are slightly thicker than the posts on regular earrings. This is to make the holes in her ears slightly larger than the earrings she will be putting in them. Although she likes the studs used to pierce her ears, suggest to her than other earrings may go in and out of her ears easier than her piercing studs until her infections clear up. Then, if she is willing to wear another pair of earrings, you can soak her piercing studs overnight in peroxide.
My daugter got her ears pierced and its infected..should i take them out?
my daugter got her ears pierced when she was 6 months old..they got infected so i took them out.. she is 5 now and just got them pierced again, she has had them pierced for like 2 months now and in the one ear where she had them pierced before right next to her new hole is now open with puss and blood on the back of her ear.. its complicated to describe.. but i was wondering what to do..should i just keep cleaning it or should i take them out..please help me... thank you very much ....jamie
My granddaughter just had her ears pierced with titanium and has developed infection after 6 days. What do I do?
It isn’t infected, you’re misdiagnosing discharge and redness as an infection.Her ears are irritated, probably due to the spray your using, check the ingredients, if it says alcohol or benzalkonium chloride then stop using that spray at once as it is causing the problem.Association of Professional PiercersRead those aftercare instructions and follow, within a few days the piercings will return to normal health.
I got my ears pierced and now one is pussing?!?!?
Make sure that it isn't on too tight, also make sure that you are cleaning them regularly, and twisting them too. It's probably an infection, use some antibiotic ointment on it tonight.
Is my baby's ear piercing infected?
fyi, its apart of my culture to pierce ears when your daughter is a baby. as for spell check...who has time for it when you have a 10 week old baby screaming in your ear? i am actually educated, last i checked the only one who should be judging anyone is God...since he is the only one that is perfect. Co-sleeping has been done since the beginning of time. Plus i am a single mama, and i need sleep in order to care for my baby girl. It is done in a safe manner..but thanks for the concern.
Every time i get my ear lobes pierced they get infected! why!?
How do you know that these actually became infected? A lot of people confuse the signs of normal healing with infection, so first, be sure you had an issue. Signs of normal healing include some pain, some redness, some swelling, and a clear/whitish discharge that does not smell bad. In addition, it's completely normal for a new piercing to close up if you don't keep jewelry in it - for up to a year, sometimes longer, after you got the piercing. So if part of the issue was that after a couple of months you started going without jewelry, and then you'd try to force it back through - that's not an infection. That's just normal. You'd want to keep jewelry in the piercings nearly all the time, even after the normal healing time. Signs of actual infection include heat, more pain, more redness, more swelling, and a dark colored discharge that smelled bad. If you got actual infections, that's normally due to improper aftercare. You may be able to get a new piercing and if you care for it correctly, be successful with it. Guns are not sterile. I'd rather you get this done by a professional piercer who uses a needle, especially since 1) you've had issues in the past, and 2) you likely have scar tissue, which they'll need to deal with. When you get pierced, have them use titanium jewelry on you. Titanium is much less likely to cause reactions than other types of jewelry. It costs more, but just in case part of your issue might be due to the jewelry they used on you in the past, the extra cost will be worth it. So call the piercing place before you go, and make sure they have titanium jewelry in stock for you. Know that because you likely have scar tissue, the healing time will be extended. If it normally takes 6-8 weeks before you can change your earrings, for you, it may take longer. Be patient. And make sure you do proper after care. Sea salt soaks are the best, especially for troubled piercings. 1/4 teaspoon sea salt mixed into a cup of warm water. Soak the piercings twice a day, for five minutes each time, for several weeks. Rinse after you soak, and pat dry with a clean cloth/paper towel. Do not remove the earrings during the healing time. Do not twist them, no matter what the piercer says - that just drags germs into the piercing, causing issues.
How to cure my 8 month old infected ear piercings?
I think I would remove them. Use little dabs of perioxide until they heal up. However.......when I was a teenager a friend of mine pierced my ears with a regular needle, NOT a gold needle. My ears continued to stay infected until I removed the earrings. Later in life I discovered the cause of the whole thing. Whenever I wore any jewlery with a high nickel content such as inexpensive earrings, my skin would get infected. If I wore good gold, or "Nickel free" jewlery this didn't happen. According to the dermatologist I went to, piercing with the needle released an enzyme into my system that keeps me allergic to nickel. If they had been pierced with a gold needle this wouldn't have happened. There's no way to take it back once it's done. Just make sure she always wears good gold or nickel free. WalMart has a good really inexpensive line of nickel free earrings. It couldn't hurt to try them.
My daughter’s earrings made the piercing crusty. What should she do?
Are these new piercings or are these healed piercings?If they are new, some crusting will be natural as some fluid will crust around earring posts as the piercing tries to scab and heal. Follow your piercing tech’s advice for aftercare to avoid infection. If you do not have any instructions, here’s my basic care regimen:Clean piercing sites daily with piercing solution, Bactine or 70% isopropyl alcohol (stings in the beginning). 90% isopropyl will burn more than 70% and 70% is enough to kill bacteria.While the holes are still unhealed, follow each cleaning with a dab of Bacitracin or Tribiotic ointment around the posts to prevent bacterial infection. The ointment will also lube the piercing so it’s easier to rotate.Always wash your hands before rotating your posts.Watch your piercings for swelling, redness, puss, heat or excessive pain. These may indicate an infection taking hold.The best metals for new piercings are surgical steel or solid 14K gold (not electroplated, not gold foil, not filled) to reduce chances for the body to have an allergic sensitivity to the earring. If the earring posts have nickel in them they may irritate the post holes and cause redness, inflammation and crusting. I sometimes discover sterling silver earrings still have a little too much nickel for me when my earrings start to burn and crust. When shopping for earrings, stick with hypo-allergenic posts and ear wires whenever possible.If you have healed piercings and they crust or fill with puss, you may be reacting to the metal in the earring post, or you have bacterial buildup in the post holes. Remove your earrings and clean your post holes very well with 70% isopropyl. Switch your earrings to surgical steel posts. Clean them very well and soak them in isopropyl as well. Before putting the earrings in your holes, coat the posts and post holes with Bacitracin or Tribiotic ointment so that you can work the ointment through the post holes. The isopropyl and antibacterial ointment should clear up any buggies that might be in the post holes. If your piercings continue to redden, swell, get hot or exude puss, you might need to see a doctor about potential infection.