How long for ear lobes to heal from piercing

To keep the piercing clean, you need to wash your hands before touching your ears and wash your ear piercing twice a day with cotton wool and soapy or salty warm water. Of course, the main objective of a new piercing is to make it look as cute as ever. So focus on healing and keep it clean. And then enjoy choosing the best huggie earrings later on! Hattie Gladwell is a freelance journalist who has written for Metro.

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All rights reserved. England and Wales company registration number My Imperfect Life. Select your region. If you see redness it may indicate an allergic reaction. This may include swabbing the pierced area with alcohol or disinfectant 2x per day for six weeks afterwards and twisting the earring once a day for the first 6 weeks to prevent build-up from settling around the pierced lobe.

Now back to the newly pierced ears. Wash hands any time you or they touch their earrings. Clean earlobe and earring twice a day with saline on a cotton ball. With clean hands and while cleaning earrings each day, be sure to twist each post earrings degrees.

Use an antiseptic solution on a cotton q-tip twice a day. Do not play with the earring for the first 9 weeks while it heals. Leave the earrings in for the first 6 to 9 weeks. Be careful when washing and brushing hair. Avoid smokey areas while the pierced ear is healing. Parents, if your kids are athletes, they may want to cover their earring with a band-aid over each piercing while participating in their sports.

Tips for Adults Wash and dry your hands before touching the earring or pierced area. Leave your earrings in at all times for the first 6 weeks. Clean their earlobe and earrings once to twice a day in the beginning. Clean your earrings with antiseptic solution and a cotton q-tip. Gently spin your post earrings as you clean the earring area. Keep your ears and earrings dry at all other times. Avoid touching and playing with your earrings.

For the first weeks, avoid putting phones to your ears. Watch for infection or redness. Clean your earrings and ears in the shower with antibacterial soap. In general, your piercing should continue to feel better with time. In fact, you can also clean your piercing just by running warm water over it like in the shower. Do not put neosporin or vaseline around your piercing or cover it with a bandage. Do not use a Q-tip the fibers can get caught in the jewelry or the piercing.

That means pools, a bath, the ocean, etc. Anything in the water and any bacteria running off of you will run through your piercing gross.

Especially be wary of chlorine, which can be very damaging. Anything else may irritate the still-healing spot. We recommend coming back to us or a professional piercer to swap out your piercing jewelry!

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