What to do if your ears become red, swollen, and painful after getting your ears pierced

Girls love beauty and prettiness. Although earrings are small, they are delicate and can modify the face shape and show temperament. Therefore, although piercing the ears is a bit painful, there are still many girls who get their ears pierced. Many girls’ ears become red, swollen and painful after getting their ears pierced. This is due to improper care or scar tissue, which causes symptoms of ear inflammation and infection. What should you do in this situation?

Symptoms of ear piercing inflammation

If you don't take good care of your ear piercings, it can easily lead to inflammation. The main symptoms of ear piercing inflammation include redness and swelling of the ear, pain in the ear piercing area, pus discharge, itching and dry skin around the ear piercing, etc. The symptoms of ear piercing inflammation usually subside in about a week, but for some girls, the symptoms of ear piercing inflammation may take up to a month to gradually subside. Symptoms of ear piercing inflammation include:

1. Red and swollen ears

If you don't change your earrings after being shot, or if you delay applying medicine after being scratched, it will cause redness and swelling of the ears.

2. Ear pain

I felt pain one month after getting my ears pierced, and pus and blood came out after I took my ears off. This might be caused by scratches or skin allergies during care.

3. Pus from ear piercing

It may be caused by metal allergy. Some women wear metal earrings after getting their ears pierced. Due to metal allergy, yellow or white pus will flow out of the ear holes.

4. Itchy skin around the ear hole

The reason for this symptom is due to the infection of allergic bacteria, because the skin around the ear piercing has poor tolerance and appears a little dry.

What to do if your ear piercing becomes inflamed

Ear piercing is a hole created by making a hole in the ear through external means. What to do if your ear piercing becomes inflamed? When the ear piercing is severely inflamed, symptoms such as redness, swelling, and pus discharge are likely to occur. The most important thing to do when dealing with ear piercing inflammation is to clean and disinfect it, and replace it with a suitable earring as needed. Some women take good care of their pierced ears and rarely experience inflammation or their pierced ears fully recover in a week. However, if you do not take good care of your pierced ears, the inflammation symptoms may be obvious and may easily affect your daily life. The treatment for ear piercing inflammation is:

1. Cleaning and disinfection: Prepare alcohol or hydrogen peroxide, disinfect the tail end of the nail gun with alcohol cotton, and then pull out the nail.

2. Squeeze out pus and blood: Use a cotton ball soaked in medical saline heated to 40-50℃ to clean the front and back of the ear hole, and gently squeeze out the pus and blood.

3. Change to longer white fungus studs: Change to longer white fungus studs, apply erythromycin ointment before changing. If the swelling is thicker, change to longer plastic sticks, and plug the front and back of the plastic stick.

4. Apply ointment: Use a sterilized toothpick to pick up a little and apply it to the gap in front and behind the ear hole, then rotate the earring so that the ointment can slowly seep into the ear hole.