I have been informed that I have to make sure that every single person who comes near me knows I have this allergy, but there are no substitutes for medical equipment or accessories. Basically if I ever need staples or pins, I get to be on lots of antibiotics as a precaution. Even my non-copper IUD gave me nothing but grief and troubles until they took it out a few weeks later...Oh... you have my sympathies! Is there a protocol for future surgeries, to ensure that doesn't happen again?
3 year old thread. I hope she fixed the problem by now.
Yes, and what with doubles/multiple holes as a very established thing now, the effort of really learning to manage the holes well has consequently become an established need also.Change pillowcase more often? Make sure she washes hands a lot and isn't touching ears and clean every night with a little alcohol or peroxide. Could try to change earrings to a 24 karat or flatter stud? Sometimes I have had issues but I found the most comfortable studs for me and pretty much keep them in as my everyday ones. I have a small 14K stud and another small 18K bar with gems in each ear but I have had earrings that bothered me more if I lay weird at night. I don't think it would hurt to take them out at night either if she continues issues.
I'd def. take them out at night. I do as does my dd (13) never had an issue. Hers will definitely not close up over a night... my dd kept hers out for months here and there and never had an issue.Nah, she's a squirmer and sleeps in all kinds of positions! Do you think taking the earrings out at night may give her ears a break though? She is terrified to even take them out when she plays soccer as she is worried they will fill in.
...Remembering also that with hole management (& taking them out and putting them back in) the holes may sometimes also behave differently depending on whether they are in the fleshy lobe or in the cartilage.I'd def. take them out at night. I do as does my dd (13) never had an issue. Hers will definitely not close up over a night... my dd kept hers out for months here and there and never had an issue.
Cartilage can be especially sore if it's maybe not the right metal that goes through.Even really good earrings often have post made of nickel. Many people are allergic to nickel. I am and my ears will get infected if I wear earrings with nickel posts.
...Remembering also that with hole management (& taking them out and putting them back in) the holes may sometimes also behave differently depending on whether they are in the fleshy lobe or in the cartilage.
Yes, hole management is indeed a commitment before ever the holes are gotten; and I expect from your own experience your household would understand this, whether or not your dd or ds would want to wear earrings.I had that trouble too -- and still do. I have sensitive skin otherwise though, and a couple of weird immune things. I have only found one kind of earrings that I can reliably wear. (They're called Concepts. They have a website.) If I had it to do over again, I'd just have let them close up when I was young.
If the double/multiple holes are wanted then this is great; like even the majority of boys / young men at our local church seem to wear earrings and when the girls desire multiple holes there should indeed usually be plenty of space on the lobe area for doubles or whatever, without necessarily having to go to the cartilage which may turn out to be a different experience.Agree with this. The only time I have ever had a problem with my pierced ears and I have had them pierced since a kid, was when I got my cartilage pierced. Both ears ended up getting infected so I let them close up. I have two holes now in each ear but I did read that the cartilage area can have different or more issues and that was my experience, and no longer have.