I Took Out My Infected Cartilage Piercing

Once the wound has healed usually after 2 to 3 months in the case of earlobe piercing or longer in cartilage piercings a person can safely remove an earring.

If left untreated the infection may spread very fast leading to extensive damage taking place on your ear cartilage. It is important not to take an infected cartilage piercing lightly. Cartilage piercings which take place on the harder part of your ear generally take longer to heal and can be more prone to infection. I got my cartilage peirced on january 3rd and it was doing well until a week or 2 ago when it began to get infected.

But what done is done and you can still help the infection. All this is normal. But it can heal faster with proper aftercare. It takes a long time for infected cartilage piercings to heal because there is not enough blood circulation to that area.

When you visit a gp because of cartilage infection the first thing they will do will be to request for a culture test which is determined to establish whether there is a presence of microorganisms in the cartilage or not. The only ingredients should be sodium chloride and water. I had mine since october 15 and if i hit mine still it hurts. I got my piercing done foolishly at age 14 with a gun which i never knew at the time was wrong.

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Get some sterile gauze pads too. For future reference one should not remove an earring if the piercing is infected as the pus then cannot escape as easily. If you cannot get in t. Here is how to clean the pierced area for a more rapid healing process.

There are several ways your ear piercing can get infected. I tried to squeeze it but nothing comes out. Keep it in cartilage piercing r really cute ps if ur cartilage piercing was infected just leave it in and continue to clean it. It s also going to hurt to clean.

A few days ago i took out my infection because it hurt like hell and now it looks like a 2 inch huge boil that won t go away. Haha the same thing happened to my mom we got our cartilage pierced together and hers got all infected and yucky and it was even bleeding she took the earring out and put some acholol on the hole it sounds painful and it is a little people say you shouldnt put acholol because it dries out the hole but for my mom it worked just fine the infection went away and she re pierced it 2 days. Go to the drugstore and get sterile saline wound wash spray it should be near the bandages. Cleaning the infected cartilage piercing.

I noticed it started hurting so i got nervous and took it out and put the peircing in the ear cleaning solution and also cleaned my ear. If u take it out while it s still infected then you ll trap the infection and leave a possible lump.