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skibunny59skibunny59 member
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have an ear piercing question for you.  My DD is 7 months old and she got her ear pierced 6 weeks ago.  I know I'm going to get flamed for this but I did it for cultural reasons.  Anyway, today I went to switch out her earring to put in little pearl earrings that her great grandmother bought her and both ears were still not healed.

Her actual earlobes looked perfectly fine but the hole itself was still red and there was actually a little bit of crust on the backing of both earrings.  I hope it's not an infection.  I wouldn't even have noticed it if I hadn't taken the earrings out.  I've been cleaning out her ears really well and I did clean them with alcohol, cleaned the earrings themselves with alcohol and put them back in.  She didn't seem bothered when I took them out or put them back in.  Part of me is really regretting getting her earrings done.  I mean, they look cute and all but it's just another thing for a new mommy to worry about and I would feel really badly if they got infected.

I'm not sure what to do.  I'm hesitant to take them out and have to go through the whole ear piercing process again.  Do you think they just need a little more time to heal?   

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  • mommadawn1012mommadawn1012
    I was told that you weren't supposed to switch them out for a year on babies.
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  • KaeldrasmommyKaeldrasmommy member
    I would guess they just need more time. Can you use the sea salt water trick on a baby?
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  • mexicolombianamexicolombiana member

    Both my girls got their ears pierced at 3 months.  You're supposed to leave the same earrings for at least 6 weeks.  I kept the same earrings until they were at least 6 months then I switched the earrings.  A little redness and crustiness could be an infection.  Keep moving the earring around and put lots of the solution they gave you when you first pierced them.  Put the solution on several times a day.  

    If the ears continue being red it could be a reaction to that particular earring.  Try switching to an even less irritant earring type like 14KT or 18KT gold earrings.  Then don't switch the earrings again until the ears are completely healed.  





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  • skibunny59skibunny59 member
    imagemexicolombiana:

    Both my girls got their ears pierced at 3 months.  You're supposed to leave the same earrings for at least 6 weeks.  I kept the same earrings until they were at least 6 months then I switched the earrings.  A little redness and crustiness could be an infection.  Keep moving the earring around and put lots of the solution they gave you when you first pierced them.  Put the solution on several times a day.  

    If the ears continue being red it could be a reaction to that particular earring.  Try switching to an even less irritant earring type like 14KT or 18KT gold earrings.  Then don't switch the earrings again until the ears are completely healed.  

    I left the piercing earrings in for 6 weeks.  They have been pierced for 6 weeks and when I went took the piercing earrings out to put the new ones in is when I noticed it.  When I got them pierced they didn't give me a solution, just told me to use alcohol.  I have been cleaning them with alcohol twice a day like they told me to.  I'm really upset that this happened.  :-(  I feel like a bad momma.

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  • Haley.BethHaley.Beth member
    I have many piercings and every professional piercer I've ever met says NEVER use alcohol. It does disinfect, but it also irritates. The only thing any of my piercers ever rec commended using was sea salt solutions. Try making a sea salt solution and dip a couple cotton balls in it, and hold the cotton balls on either side of each ear for a couple minutes, then reinsert the jewelry. Make sure the jewelry is nickle free, and some people have allergic reactions to gold and silver too, so stainless steel is your best bet. Sometimes it just takes more than the recommended time for a piercing to heal, it's a very individual thing.
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  • stacee55jstacee55j member
    I would take them out and let them heal. Why give yourself one more thing to worry about? I cannot imagine. I'd pierce them again when she's old enough to ask for it. That's just my opinion and definitely not saying your a bad mom, which I'm quite sure you are not given your concern.
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