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Pierced ears still bleeding slightly months after being pierced

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ChilliHeeler1 · 21/11/2024 20:45

I got my daughters ears pierced over the summer, and was very careful to follow all aftercare instructions, I continue to clean them with warm water and piercing aftercare spray twice daily yet months later and there is STILL tiny amounts of blood when she removes her earrings at night. She says they’re not sore etc. She has sterling silver earrings, thought these wouldn’t cause irritation but why are they still bleeding months after being pierced? She had them done at a professional piercers within a tattoo shop, not at Claire’s Accessories etc.
is this normal?

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nonbinaryfinery · 21/11/2024 20:55

Try swapping them out for titanium as a previous poster has said. I'm hideously allergic to things that aren't titanium or surgical steel, and both of those metals are unproblematic for me.

Atishooo · 21/11/2024 20:55

Just leave them in. Why is she taking them out? It will be irritating them.

I rarely take mine out.

Changingplace · 21/11/2024 20:54

As others have said taking them out won’t be helpful, get some studs she can sleep in, there’s no need to keep taking them out, that’s probably what’s irritating the piercings and stopping them fully healing.

dementedpixie · 21/11/2024 20:50

Why on earth is she taking them out?
Leave them alone to heal. Every time they are removed they will tear the scab off and will never form new skin

AllYearsAround · 21/11/2024 20:50

When did she start removing them?

Maybe try titanium instead. My dc had their ears pierced at the end of the summer, haven't taken them out yet but no irritation with titanium.

Scutterbug · 21/11/2024 20:48

I think the taking out overnight might not be helping when they are still relatively new. Were they done with a needle?

SH23B · 21/11/2024 20:47

Is she taking them out overnight? That's not going to help. Also try some titanium earrings, much better