Daughter has pierced her own ears

[howliscream]

My 15 year old DD came home last night and I noticed that she had 3 earrings in each ear. We have previously allowed her to have her ears pierced and took her to a proper piercing studio. When questioned it transpires that her and her friends did it a week ago using “needles and alcohol”. I’m horrified of course and she’s in a lot of trouble but from a health perspective, is there anything I need to do to help prevent infection? I’m terrified that they’ve used the same needles and only cleaned them basically. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I did mine, 32 years ago! My Mum went mad, got over it & I’m still here 😂

As other PP have said, make her pay for proper hygiene earrings like titanium and keep an eye on them

Then I'd be dragging her arse to a proper studio - not Claires or anywhere that pierces with a gun - and having them changed immediately....

Yep me too

I did this when I was her age 😂 alone though but a lot of my friends did it. I would say buy her saline wash etc and look after it the same way you would with a regular piercing. Mine definitely never healed but I didn’t look after it at all and it did get infected. So I took it out and the gunk went away but I had a really hard ball there for years. It did eventually go.

She’s more likely to get an infection keep taking them in and out and messing with them. She needs to leave them in (now you know 🙈)

Omg ouch. How on earth did they do this?! 🤢

Why is she in trouble? Why did you take her to get her ears pierced and now you are seemingly against her having pierced ears?

One of my DC appeared at home with piercings that a friend did "round the back of Sainsbury's" with some kit off Amazon 🙄🙄 Said child lives to tell the tale (but further piercings have been done at a proper piercing studio).

I remember when I was at school the cool art and textile girls would all hunker down in the art room over lunches in year 10 and 11. The teachers were fine with it because they were a decent group of girls, and the art rooms were off limits because of GCSE work being done.

Then one day it came out they’d all been giving each other stick and poke tattoos, someone had pierced someone else’s nipple, and for some unknown reason they’d all used the straighteners kept for textiles, to give themselves dreadlocks! They all got a bit of a bollocking from the head but nothing too serious.

The fatty lobe part of the ear doesn't matter so much but cartilage can go badly wrong.

Pierced my ears myself many times growing up, learned this from experience.

That's funny. Also wonder why the headteacher would even care so long as they look presentable for School.