Use wire cutters on niece's ear piercing?

[justwanttoweeinpeace]

Niece had a clip ear piercing done a few weeks ago. It's one of those ones that supposedly can't be removed by anyone other than a professional.

It's starting to turn nasty and she wants it removing, but with the holidays coming up there's nowhere to get it done.

WWBU just to chop the ring with wire cutters and remove it that way?

I understand that OP believes it #can't be opened. I never said anything about that.

What I don't understand is why the niece doesn't know how it opens. It will be have been taken from the sterile pack and opened in front of her to show her it remained in a sterile environment the whole time.

Which makes me wonder why the niece has told aunt it won't open.

If it was me, it would be because it's none of her bloody business. Honestly, if the parents are okay with it, which you seem to imply ("Her parents aren't getting involved, which would require another thread confused") wtf is it to do with you?

Luckily my auntie is a former punk who used to stick safety pins through her ears, so she loves my piercings

I used to tell my granny mine wouldn't come out

"Oh, granny, I know they're awful and you're right, I do regret them but you have to pay to have them taken out and I can't afford it yet. I'm saving up though."

Sure fire way to get her to stop rabbiting on about them.

Have you read the OP? Specifically It's starting to turn nasty and she wants it removing

The niece wants it removed due to infection or whatever and the aunt is asking how to go about it safely or if it needs medical attention.

If she wants it removed c8, why is she claiming it is unremovable?

It's one of those ones that supposedly can't be removed by anyone other than a professional

Unless it is a microdermal, which would need removing via sugery, there is no such thing as a piercing that can only be removed by a professional. Nor a peircing that is done with the jewellery and not a needle. They're too blunt for a start. Niece would have been agony before they got it all the way through.

The niece, for whatever reason, is bullshitting the OP.

OP was sensibly advised to leave it in and carry on with the ABs.

I think it's most likely a daith piercing and is one of those pliable rings you have to bend slightly to remove or a ball ring. Both are removable.

Can't be a microdermal, op called it a "clip ear piercing" and referred to cutting "the ring".

I'd also guess at daith or maybe a helix - with captive ball, seamless segment or hinged ring.

Actually, to call it a "clip", I think I'd definitely go with a hinged ring, that's kind of clippy

Yup.

And piercings in parts that have a low blood supply (eg helix), all that has to happen is someone knocks their ear, and it will get infected. Red and infected.

You do have to go in with antibiotics not least because if it really swells then there'll be no choice but to take it out - so these things need nipping in the bud, the piercing not taken out, and give the ABs time to work, and in the meantime keep it clean as already advised.

There are rings that have a pressure section you can pop in/out like the ball closure rings, but it looks like it's part of the whole loop. That is what OP is referring too. It's a proper 'sleeper' ring.

I had them in my nipples after I took my bars out and my husband has had one in his eyebrow for about 20years.

Like these thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/m1c8gfZxuev_JcIIc8t9ysQ.jpg

I pierced my own ear with an old earring once. Obviously it got infected but saline and TCP sorted it out. The idea of going to minor injuries has really tickled me!

Oh well
I'm waiting for the troops so I hope it's okay and happy new year all round xx

I'd be beside myself with embarrassment if I had to see a HCP with a piercing related issue.

Self care can fix this minor irritation. antibiotics are overkill but probably giving the dose of attention you both seem to need.

Totally what the NHS is for. Fucking embarrassing.

A seamless segment pops out like a ball capture and looks, well, seamless. I can confirm that it comes out with just arthritic and basically crap hands - I know for definite as I have one in my lip.
Pliers are needed to put it back in though.

Hinged rings also come out with arthritic and basically crap hands, and go back in easily too. Again, I know for definite as I have them in my ears.

I have never come across a ring that cannot be removed.

They're pretty cool, Panda.

I miss all my piercings. I took them all out when I met Ex-Asshole and decided to be sensible he turned out to be the least sensible choice I ever made

I'm desperate for a daith piercing but dd is also desperate for one and I've said she has to wait until she is 16. I don't want to encourage her. Although, maybe if mum gets it done, it won't be cool anymore

So your niece is fibbing. Basically.

Ta da

I once had to buy a set of precision pliers to cut off a nose ring crushed in the mosh pit at a New Model Army gig. It was crushed into my nose and wouldn't undo so I had to cut it off. My nose survived, the hole didn't. I still have the pliers, they are a very handy set which I use occasionally but never since to remove a piercing.

You and niece do realise that even taking the piercing out isnt going to magically cure it? She will still need to finish the course of anti biotics ( depending how old she is that might put a dent in her NYE celecelebrations :( ) and clean the hole so its a bit pointless really
I swear by cleaning piercings with Epsom salt and warm water,cleans out the infection really well but doesnt sting....when my daith went icky (as said above that happens really easily) I coated it in epsom salts and rinsed off a bit later,really helped.
I cant remove those piercings myself,have to go back to piercer to do it,but people usually can take them out themselves

DD has had several infections in her helix ear piercing - GP advised taking it out (we ignored him), piercers will tell you not to take it out. Get antibiotics asap and it will sort itself out.

Maybe if you listened to your GP she wouldn't keep getting infections.

My sister took out her helix when it got infected. She ended up having to have it surgically drained. Her ear still has not gone back to normal twenty years later.

Beyond If she wants it removed c8, why is she claiming it is unremovable?

At a guess for the same reason one of mine as a teen insisted that an infected piercing must not be removed other than by a professional - because that is what the piercer told them. As their aged mother I obviously knew nothing despite having had similar piercings myself. I removed it for them.

But if they had been with eg my DB &SIL they would only have had offspring's assurance that piercer's instructions were the word of Om. One of them might well have asked such a question as the OP, not because they were controlling said offspring but because they had no idea what to do for the best.

My dd has been to A and E/minor injuries (on the same site) for an infected earring where the swelling was extreme and pushing against the inside of the ring with no-where left to go. It was very difficult for the HCP to remove the ring, we had tried at home and asked a nurse friend to help, but when all else failed, that's where we went, that's where we waited til all the urgent stuff was dealt with which was quite quick, and that's where they sorted it out with a mild telling off.

I don't take any notice of the 'never go to A and E unless your leg is hanging off' crap on here, lots of times I've seen people calling it wrongly recently and if the A and E has a proper triage and GP/minor injuries unit on site, which many have, then it's easy for them to send you in that direction. Better safe than sorry.

I went to A & E with a piercing many years ago and and I'm not beside myself with embarrassment. I had my belly button pierced next morning it was black and swollen. It was a bank holiday weekend and the piercing studio was closed and it was in the days before walk in centres so I went to A & E. It turned out the piercer had caught a blood vessel so it was just and I finally had it done many years later.