Recommended Ear Piercing Aftercare
Do not remove your earrings during the recommended healing period (6 weeks for an earlobe piercing and 12 weeks for a cartilage piercing). Cleanse the front and back of the pierced area at least three times daily using a clean cotton swab soaked with Inverness Aftercare Solution.
Regarding this, do you have to clean your ear piercing everyday?
You should clean your earrings as often as is possible, but you don’t need to stress too much unless your ears and skin is hyper sensitive; everyone is different. To remain safe and sound, clean your earrings once a week especially if you wear the same pair all week.
Keeping this in consideration, can you clean a piercing too much?
Do not over-clean your piercing. Cleaning too often with an overly harsh cleaning solution, or with too many different types of cleaning solutions, can irritate your piercing. If cleaning your piercing twice a day is suggested, don’t assume cleaning it ten times a day is better: It isn’t.
How do I know my ear piercing is healed?
Most people can tell their piercing has healed when there is no redness, the tissue feels normal in the area of the piercing and the normal healing discharge (crust that gathers on the jewelry) has subsided,” he said. “A piercing becoming permanent, where jewelry can be removed for hours or days, is never guaranteed.”
Can I take my newly pierced earrings out for an hour?
If you want to keep your ears pierced, do not take out the jewelry. Even after a few weeks they can close up in as little as minutes, hours would be sure tomake reinserting them difficult and possibly painful. … After thepiercing, I removed one earring within a day and it immediately closed up.
