Unless you have an infection, using any type of antibiotic is not necessary. Also, antibiotic ointment can aggravate an open wound if you manage to break through the skin with an earring. According to Columbia University , around half of at-home piercings end up requiring medical attention.
Re-piercing your ear s at home puts you at risk for complications ranging from infection to tissue and nerve damage. Seeing a trained professional with the proper equipment in a sterile environment reduces these risks. Book a consultation with a piercing professional who can examine your former earring hole s and decide if you can re-pierce the same spot without opening yourself up to complications.
If your hole s closed due to an allergic reaction or because of an infection, piercing the same spot may not be the best idea — depending on how the area healed. The piercing professional will check for issues in or around the old piercing that could make it hard to re-pierce, and they will advise you on how to proceed.
An infection, allergic reaction, or removal of your initial piercing earrings too soon could result in the development of scar tissue, like a hypertrophic scar or keloid. Some people are also just more prone to keloids. Depending on how much scar tissue there is, you might be better off avoiding another piercing entirely.
The key is to listen to your body. July 12, The following are answers to the two questions we hear most: How do I keep my new piercing from becoming infected? Will my new ear piercing close up overnight? The short answer is NO, but only if you are carefully following these healing guidelines: During Your Healing Period The average healing time is 6 weeks for an earlobe piercing and 12 weeks for a cartilage piercing.
Keep your starter earrings in for the entire healing period. Be extra careful with your new piercing for the first 6 months. Your piercing site will still be sensitive, so treat your ears gently and continue cleaning as needed.
To keep your new piercing from closing, follow this rule: for the first 6 months after your healing period is complete, never go more than 24H without wearing an earring or your piercing may close. In the 6 months after your 12 week healing period, your piercing site may be sensitive, so treat your ears gently.
Having had my fair share of piercings especially on my ears , I have also experienced this shock. As a teenager, I removed a few of my ear piercings for a significant amount of time. When I finally came around to putting them back in, I was surprised to find two of my holes had closed. I tried different ways of getting the earrings through, discovering that one hole had only barely sealed from behind, while the other had actually closed.
Now, before I continue with this story, I would like to point out that there are two kinds of closed piercings. It will also cause scarring when it is completely closed. Once the body is in that state, it identified the hole as a wound that needs healing and thus closed up the area.
If you have had ear piercings for a long time and you find that even a day or two of not wearing earrings cause it to close, then consider getting earrings that you can wear round the clock, and your skin is not allergic to. If it is less than six weeks old, then the hole will close up on about 24 hours. When the hole is healed, it takes a lot longer. It would take a few weeks for that to happen. When that happens, you do need to wait a while before you get the ears re-pierced.
These beautiful heart piercings! If you want the hole to close entirely without any scarring, then you do have to take better care of the piercing.
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