Ear Infections
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Saturday September 20th, 2008 @ 12:23 PM
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Is it possible that my body can not handle piercings?
All my piercings seem to get infected.
I clean with sea salt and warm water twice a day for the first couple of weeks and then once a day from then on.
I always make sure to rinse them out after washing my hair.
I’ve recently been on 500mg of Flucloxacillin to clear up a lobe infection, and it has helped, but the infection is still there. (I’ll be seeing my doctor again shortly.)
It would also seem that an infection is starting to develop in my other lobe too.
I really don’t know what to do. Should I keep trying to get them to heal, or just give up and take them out?
Thank You
If you are continually getting wound infections that are troublesome to clear up, even with antibiotics, it very much sounds like something else is going on here. It could well be that you have some form of systemic infection and unless that is adequately treated there’s every chance that you will continue getting the same problem every time you get pierced.
When you see your doctor it may well be worth bringing this up in conversation and discussing removing the jewellery at a certain point within your drug therapy and not bothering with any kind of piercing until you and your doctor have worked out what is going on and it has been adequately treated.
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7 Responses to “Ear Infections”
Thankyou.
I’m now on 250mg of Flucloxacillin for a short time.
If that doesn’t clear the problem, then the jewellry will be removed and I’ll continue with the anti biotics.
What exacly is a systemic infection?
Gizmogle on September 20th, 2008 at 12:38 pmI’m so lazy..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_infection
Tiff Badhairdo on September 20th, 2008 at 1:10 pmLol, cheers.
Gizmogle on September 20th, 2008 at 1:15 pmI don’t need/want a response to this.. just a curiosity/something to think about.. do you keep going to the same shop?
Are they doing everything sterile and all that jazz?
james on September 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 pmWell, my first ear piercings were gunned. Bad move.
Years later, I got my lobes, tragus and helix pierced all at the same shop. Just a local place, so probably not the best, but I trust them for a few simple ear piercings.
Gizmogle on September 25th, 2008 at 6:30 pmThe tragus and helix were a little irratated for a while, but fine.
It’s just the lobes that I seem unable to heal.
What jewelry do you have in them? Personally, I’ve found that I can’t heal earlobes with captive bead rings - they move around too much, the piercing gets irritated, and then ends up with crusties, red bumps & pus.
After replacing the CBRs my earlobes were originally done with with labret studs, they’re are finally starting to heal.
Silent-Fire on September 28th, 2008 at 7:44 pmI have a CBR in one and a labret in the other.
The CBR ear seems to have finally started to heal up a bit more, but the labret has now flared up after a couple of months of seeming okay.
Gizmogle on October 3rd, 2008 at 2:02 pmLeave a Comment