Thread: Infected Ear Piercing

Stop being a Phag and quit getting your ears pierced. lol

Do like Barnes said on Platoon. " TAKE DA PAIN "

Soak the earring in the stuff they gave you and put it back in. Keep saturating the area with the stuff (antiseptic or whatever it is, "earcare" something) every day, spray it on if you have to. The idea is to get the liquid into the hole. It'll eventually go away. It's a bitch to sleep on though when it's infected.

Originally Posted by Kathybird

The idea is to get the liquid into the hole.

What are we doin here, makin babies or cleaning earholes?

Which ear?

Left is right and right is wrong unless you like the mens

Left ear lol and yeah I've been cleaning it with the earcare stuff

also put Neosporin (anti-biotic) on the ear twice per day.

Don't use neosporin. Don't use alcohol.

Soak your ear with warm water mixed with sea salt. then rinse it off.

did you consult the sanity? If so, what did it tell you?

I've had this happen; here's what I did, and it worked:

Do this when you're going to be home for a while because it looks really dorky - like, when you first get home on Friday night and leave it in overnight, and for at least a day if you can.

Thread a needle with dental tape (the wide kind OR the regular one, doubled; unwaxed is better but it won't matter). Wash both this rig and the earlobe with soap and warm water, and while it's still wet and soapy, push the needle through the piercing (eye-first, so it's not sharp).

Tie off the end of the floss so you have a small hoop of it through the hole (too big and it'll snag), and gently pull the soap through the piercing with the thread. Rinse well, pulling the rinse-water through very gently with the floss.

Now leave it the fuck alone. From this point forward, do not touch it unless you're in the shower with wet soapy hands, at which point wait for a few minutes for the crust to melt, then gently pull the floss through again.

When you have to finally leave your home, again with soapy lather, gently remove the thread and insert a clean, sterilized hoop (NOT a stud). Pull the soap through, then water, then again, leave it the fuck alone until you are in the shower again. If you fuck up and forget, immediately wash your hands with soap and do the same with the earring; pull the ring through the suds only when you're sure the crusties have been cleared or it'll reopen the wound.

Once you've had this going for a few days, it should be healed. Leave it alone for another two weeks, then change the ring for whatever you want in there.

No antiseptic (it'll irritate the tissues). No alcohol (too drying). No peroxide (it'll eat away at the healing tissue). No ointment (it'll trap bacteria inside the piercing).

This is just a little wound; let your body do what it knows how to do and just leave it the fuck alone. It'll heal.

You've got some intelligent sanity.

...trade ya

Originally Posted by 2B1

You've got some intelligent sanity.

...trade ya

Why thank you.

Now talk to me - what kind of a trade we talking here?