Prolonged bleeding of the piercing site is not normal and is a cause for concern. Similarly, swelling that does not go down after days may be a sign of infection.
Check the pierced area daily. Contact a doctor if signs of infection appear. If your piercing develops signs of a bacterial infection, contact your physician or visit a walk-in clinic immediately. A doctor may prescribe antibiotics or an anti-bacterial ointment to treat the problem. Left untreated, a cartilage piercing infection may lead to an abscess, which usually requires surgery and may leave ears deformed. Sasha Blue Professional Body Piercer. Sasha Blue. Avoid touching and irritating the piercing as much as possible.
Also, steer clear of over-the-ear headphones while your piercing heals. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 4. Twisting a piercing is never a good idea. Touching your piercing will only irritate the area and extend your healing time. Plus, you could set yourself up for an infection if you touch the piercing with dirty hands.
Not Helpful 0 Helpful 3. It is okay. It may hurt for the first few days, but then it will gradually heal. Your best bet is to try to avoid touching it. Not Helpful 9 Helpful A crust regularly forms around my piercing. Should I clean it or leave it alone?
This is normal during the healing of many piercings. Gently wipe it away during your normal piercing cleaning routine. Not Helpful 7 Helpful It's best to make a sea salt solution. Then, get a Q-tip and soak it in the solution. Rub the Q-tip around the back and the front of your helix piercing, moving the ring slightly to get the solution into the piercing.
Or use a clean anti-bacterial soap and clean the same, but use the cup full of water to rinse it out. Not Helpful 30 Helpful Use a small amount of ice for short periods of time to help numb the area. You can also take anti-inflammatory medication e. Not Helpful 10 Helpful If your helix has recently been pierced, then it is common to feel pain.
However, after about a week or two, there should be little to no pain when handling the piercing. Not Helpful 5 Helpful When I clean my piercing, do I rotate the bar to clean the inside of the cartilage?
No, you should not twist your cartilage piercing as this can prevent healing. Just wiping the cleaning solution over the front and back of the piercing should be enough. Not Helpful 15 Helpful My cartilage piercing has a big bump and I can't get it to go away.
What can I do? This bump is known as a keloid. Then, put it on the keloid and hold it there for a few minutes. Do this when you clean your helix piercing. Not Helpful 21 Helpful Yes, but best to sterilize it first, in boiling water or in a saline solution.
Not Helpful 2 Helpful But, now that we're older, wiser and obviously way more sensible, we've got some questions about the right way to get a cartilage piercing that we'd like answered. If you walk in and the floor is dirty, assume everything probably is!
Check their stuff out and see if you like it. If they don't have pictures of their work, they're probably not showing it for a reason. People spend more time searching for the best place to get a taco than they do finding a decent studio to get a piercing.
You're spending money on this, so make it good. Chances are, if it's really cheap, the place is no good and you'll just have to spend money on getting it done again.
A piercing gun isn't designed for cartilage, only soft tissue and even then I wouldn't recommend it. Piercing cartilage with a gun can create hardcore hypertrophic scarring and even blow it up.
A post shared by Brian Keith Thompson bodyelectrictattoo. The rook is also a favourite and it's not too difficult to heal. Some piercers leave studs so long they're like an antenna which catch on everything. If you've got the time and commitment, two piercings in the upper lobe look great with a mix of studs and hoops. Titanium and gold are hypoallergenic so perfect for piercing with. Gold's actually so antibacterial that if you put it in a petri dish with bacteria, the bacteria migrates away from it.
So if you've got sensitive skin, gold is ideal. A post shared by Maria Tash mariatash. It's your brain trying to take care of your body but everyone can manage it. It's a break outside of the norm which is exciting!
It's a hole in your ear so it will be irritating, you just have to be good to it. Absolutely NO alcohol or peroxide-based products. You've just put a hole in your ear, adding harsh chemicals to something your body is trying to heal is only going to make it worse! Constantly twisting the earring will slow down the healing process. Is this normal? Heey i got my helix on the 22 of March and I was wondering what type of salt should i use to clean?
Great, informative article! I got mine done on the 5th of March and have had no troubles with it at all! I am going skiing in July and was wondering if this is enough healing time?
Also, will my ear be irritated if I change it to a hoop piercing a couple weeks before I go? I absolutely agree with everything! I had my helix done two weeks ago, stupidly I also got my front helix on the other ear the same day so sleep has been a tad painful!
The woman who did mine is a friend with years of experience and loads of her own piercings so I trust her implicitly…Lynne if yours is still that bad now I would suggest you go back to your piercer for advice. Mrs N I still have occasional problems with my first lobe piercings that were done 22 years ago!
It was done with a gun and went at an odd angle so it occasionally gets sore and inflamed with thicker earrings…the price we pay for decoration!! But i really want it healed.. I had mine done five days ago and I accidentally slept on it on the third day. Is it normal to be like that? Red and swollen with no pain? I got my cartilage done almost 4 months ago and it just started hurting again this past week. Thank you! Dear Victoria, Every time it becomes red or painful again, try regular salt baths for a few days and it should settle down.
It is normal for this to happen for the first months as the deeper, internal healing continues. Good luck! Dear Andrea, I would recommend seeing your doctor if you are concerned, but in the early days and weeks a certain amount of redness and swelling is considered normal. I just got my helix pierced 2 days ago and the bar has slid to the front and is longer at the front than the back is this okay? Or should I slide it back?
Hello ladies, I got my piercing done in October this year and all was fine till I stopped caring for it and it started getting swollen. Now both front and back of the piercing is swollen with bumps and hurts a lot too. What can I do? Hi, your article is great! I just got my Helix done 3 days ago and been doing the salt baths. Feels great. A tad uncomfortable just sleeping on one side. Really helpful article! I woke up and my helix was hurting really bad! What should I do to help it?
So 6 days ago, I got my lower back helix pierced as I plan to get my triple helix done. My piercer was confused at first as to what I wanted and eventually realised she had the wrong jewellry at the ready.
She shrugged her shoulders and said it should be fine. Anyway, she jabbed me good, I gave the money and left, extremely happy.
My daith was also infected within the first week hen I got it done a few months ago, to the point where I could barely think from the fevers and headaches. I just got a q-tip and dipped it in tea-tree oil and lathered it on the jewellery moving it in and out of the hole.
I then repeated with colloidal silver. For anyone with infections, pure colloidal silver worked for my infected daith after two days applied twice daily. So, does magic exist? Yes, it does! Please help me if anyone is here! Amazing article. I had my helix pierced around 5 weeks ago and it has been perfectly fine up until a few days ago. It started to go back to the initial pain of getting it pierced.
Now it is swollen and very sore to touch. I am going to try the salt baths. Should I be worried? Should I leave it and keep spraying it every day?
Any suggestions for websites to purchase? I live in Darwin so not many options up here. I got my helix done with a gun at piercing pagoda…had no problem with it. Thank you so much for this article. I had it done a few days ago, and it is doing exactly what yours did slight redness, slight soreness. Thank you for the salt bath tip — I had no idea! By the way, you are gorgeous and your helix rocks.
Best, Renee in South Florida. Grapeseed oil does it best as it has healing properties, very thin consistency, and has natural anti bacterial too. Vegans can opt for Grapeseed instead of Emu. I got my ear pierced a month ago and it swelled a little,my syupid doctor told me to clean it with alcohol,and when it swelled I read on the internet that I should remove the earings and clean it n put them back on,I do that sometimes,but when I remove my earings my ear bleeds a little.
I got my right ear done a month ago was fine slightly sore was told to take ibuprofen to numb the pain did this for a week it worked! Then stupidly got my left helix ear pierced putting a hoop straight in.
I recommend not getting both ears done together. Wait for one ear to be healed first before even thinking of doing it again lol Hope this helps someone. I wanna know if the sea water is bad for the healing process, etc. I made the mistake of getting both helix at the same time. First night I had trouble sleeping but now I use a travel pillow and no problems anymore.
I keep it clean with Bandaid brand wound solution. It has benzoyl chloride and lidocaine for pain. I got a helix piercing done about a month ago however by September when the piercing would be 10 weeks old , I need to take the piercing out for a bit because I need to get a passport photo.
Will that lead to a bad consequence? Have had my Helix done for around a year with a small hoop in it. Usually it hurts…right now it hurts extra and is pussing and oozing…trying to hold out…not very good at being careful with it. This was indeed a fantastically helpful article, thank you Tara! Today is my 2 week Helix piercing anniversary. I did it myself with a gun. Throbbing, redness. It is still a bit red and does have a tiny bit of yellowish discharge once a day or every other day.
There are no red streaks and the swelling is gone altho it is still a bit red up there. I am diligently dunking it in salt water in the morning and then at night gently cleaning with an antibacterial soap and another salt water dunk.
Hurts to touch still but those first days it hurt to even LOOK at it!
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