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How do I start wearing ear rings again?
I had my ears pierced a couple of decades ago. I stopped wearing ear rings about five years ago. I can still put them in, however when I wear them for an hour one of my ear lobes seems to get infected. It itches and swells a little.
Is it best to just wear the ear rings and use rubbing alcohol and see if it goes away? Or do I need to go to the doctor?
I really want to wear ear rings again. Maybe I need new hypo-allergenic?
4 Answers
- fuchsia_sheepLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
This is a typical and very very common allergic reaction to the jewelry material.
It is not an infection. An old very well healed piercing cannot get infected except only after an accident that caused a new wound on the skin.
Signs of an allergic reaction from the metal : Swelling, redness, pain, yellowish or white discharge, fluids or pus. Symptoms that are commonly mistaken to an infection.
Proper jewelry material : Titanium, stainless steel, 18K and above gold.
Even sterling silver jewelry contain nickel which is the one that causes all this mess.
It does not matter how well you clean the jewelry before you put them in.
You won't have those issues if you were bad jewelry material for a couple of hours but if you keep them on longer your ears will start to itch. The longer they are in contact with your skin the worse the symptoms will be.
There are 2 choices here. Either get a set of proper jewelry like titanium for example and wear them every day all day and never remove them without a single issue or get some clear nail polish and paint the 'fake' jewelry that you have. Cover the jewelry bar as well as the back of the jewelry, let them sit for 24 hours and wear them.
The nail polish will work as a shield between your skin and the metal. You will be able to wear them for more but still you won't be able to wear those kind of metal for days.
Source(s): Lots of piercings, 4 ear lobe piercings included. - 8 years ago
That happend to me too! I started to clean my ears with alcohol before i put earings on.. also if u have gold earings put them on for a while that should help too.. sometimes our ear lobes get senstive to metal!
- ?Lv 44 years ago
you will have an infection, make specific to scrub it morning and nighttime. you besides mght would be allergic to nickel now, try wearing nickel unfastened jewelry/ paint the bit that is going with the aid of your ear in sparkling nail varnish became additionally some advice that became given to me!
- 8 years ago
Clean the earrings with alcohol and put an antibiotic on your ears
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