Daughters Ear Piercing bled when studs taken out

[arleta66]

my daughter, 11yrs, had her ears pierced at a beauty salon in mid june, bathed them for 6 wks with salt water twice a day.she only just had the studs taken out, but we had trouble removing them and had to go back to salon today and the girl took them out, it hurt and they bled a bit, they do not have any puss, or look red around holes ,just blood, she told us to go home and clean them with salt water and put new ones in. My daughter was so scared it was going to hurt and got herself in such a state she would not put new ear rings in,( in a worse state than when she went to get them pierced!) So have bathed them again tonight but am worried now she wont be able to get earring in in the morning, there is no where i can take her to do it as live in small town salon not open. Does anyone know how long you can leave ear rings out? They have been pierced about 11 wks ago now. She really wanted them pierced and thought she was old enough this year. Have since read that maybe gun isnt best option but I didnt think a tattoo /piercing studio best place for my 11 yr old!

A but of blood is nothing to worry about - they wouldn't be fully healed in such a short time. I know they say six weeks until healed but it usually takes longer. In fact, I had my earlobes pierced again in mid June and they're nowhere near healed yet.

I'd say the chances of getting the studs back into her ears tomorrow are pretty much nil. It will hurt a LOT and it's just not worth trying. You're better off letting them heal and getting them re-pierced when she's less panicky about the whole thing.

FWIW, there's nothing inappropriate about taking a child to a tattoo/piercing studio!

hi, thanks v much for the quick reply, oh dear that's not good news! Did not mean to offend, (not sure what FWIW means sorry! :)) but having not been anywhere like that myself didn't know what to expect and think she would have freaked out seeing anyone being tattooed as she doesn't like needles. Such a shame as been through all the stress(her not me) and for nothing :(

"For what it's worth" :)

You could try again tomorrow, but if the stud doesn't go back in freely then I wouldn't try to force it.

Thank u v much :) I am am so un txt speak savvy!!

Hmm. During the 6 weeks, after a week or so you are supposed to twiddle them daily. If she didn't the skin will have healed round them. Hence the pain and bleeding.

Leave them to heal for a few months then repierce, as long as the lumps inside the lobe have gone.

Which reminds me. Must get mine done again (4th time, they seem to get infected randomly between 6m and 6y after with me!)

That's outdated advice I'm afraid. Piercers now recommend that you DON'T turn the studs as that slows the healing process - basically you are tearing the new skin forming inside the piercing to create the "fistula" and go back to square one.

Ok. Happy to be corrected :)

Hi. Left my daughter's earrings out overnight and they healed up. Got some very good advice on here: bathe for at least ten minutes, put on some of the solution used for soaking them when newly pierced - someone suggested hydrocortisone if you don't have any, then work through a gold earring (NOT the piercing gun stud) with end covered in Vaseline. Put piercing gun stud back in before bedtime. It worked for my dd. Wouldn't force it if it starts bleeding though.

Oh dear, I think you were right divingoffthebalcony, she has tried to get them in today and she says its not going in. I can see a very tiny scab , I suspect, and I am obviously not an expert, that it is dried blood rather than tissue already but someone please correct me if I am wrong, just i would be surprised it would have healed that quickly. It is still going to feel sore for her though to try and push through that.
Nanflanders, thanks for the advice, I would try that if it was myself but my daughter isn't that brave, bless her she nearly passed out last night thinking about putting new earrings in! Really wish i had made her wait to get them done. I also think that salon should have advised to leave them in and bathe them some more if it hurt to get them out, the girl really had to pull to get them off and it did hurt, I don't think that should be the case, and certainly don't remember having any trouble getting mine out but many (38) yrs ago got mine done. We were told to twist them, which we did for first few days then read on here that you shouldn't so stopped. Even the sheet we were given for care after did not match what the therapist had told us as she told us to twist them and sheet didn't mention it. In hindsight I would recommend anyone else reading this to go to a proper piercers as they have much more knowledge if things go wrong. New school that she has started at is strict about earrings and P.E. and told her she has to take them out by next week(bit OTT I think as tape adequate) did feel a bit pushed into getting them out because of that but as it has been 12 wks thought it would be fine, I feel really angry with myself and stupid for not looking into in further, but As I had not has any trouble with mine having a gun(and someone come to house to do them!)that I thought it would be ok.

update, she has got one in but the other is a bit more sore, this is one that therapist struggled with.

When it's hard to get them in it sometimes helps to try from both sides (front and back) alternately. It's a long way to push through but if you've opened up the rear of the hole a bit, then you only have to be able to push half way through from the front until it goes all the way through.

I am wondering if this one has actually healed up, or scabbed over more, I can't see anything from front and back is hard to see as it is bruised. Would that be a bit strange that one has healed over? I just don't know what to do, shes got one in and she has been sitting there for ages trying on and off to get other one in. Does anyone know if you could go and get it re pierced straight away if there is not infection? or would it mean waiting a few months.She manages to get it in a little way then it hurts. I had resigned myself to leaving them to close up and getting them re done was she was 16!! but just seems silly to have one earring, she was so pleased with herself when she got it in.

Hi, I am going back into the salon today to let them gave a look at daughters ears, they look a lot better, have been bathed with salt water a dozen times over weekend. Have just spoken to them at salon and they said it was normal for the piercing to bleed when earrings are taken out, can anyone tell me if this is true please? My daughter was in a lot of pain having the studs taken out and I find that hard to believe it was normal

To be honest, as soon as it looked like the stud wasn't going to come out without yanking it, I would have left it in place. That's why it bled. And, like I said, since the piercings aren't fully healed at this stage, I wouldn't be surprised to see a bit of blood.

hi, my daughter has been bathing ears with salt water every day, says they feel lot less sore. They look clean ,not weepy,bleeding etc but at the back of the ear there is a red/purpley mark that looks like a bruise, I am presuming this is where the backs were on.(they have been off nearly a week now) I understand that the advice now is not to twist the earrings when they are bathed, )which we didnt, she did it couple of times and didnt like the feel of it) but is it possible that the earring back could have been stuck to the ear if it wasn't twisted? I also noticed that the studs they were pierced with were quite thick, are they all a standard size when a gun is used does anyone know? They also had a point at end, which I am pretty sure is to make them go through ear easier when piercing , I tried to put the studs in my own ear(been pierced for 38 years) and couldnt get it in, but i am sure that when I had my ears pierced, with a gun the studs were just normal ends and not pointed and you could put them back in. Also I just don't know whether to complain to the salon as really don't want this to happen to any one else, I feel as if it is also my fault for not continuing to bathe them but we did the six weeks like they advised. I think the main thing they did wrong was try to force the earrings out when my daughter was obviously in pain and the girl telling me after that it was normal for ears to bleed after removal of studs. I am not confident complaining and it isn't the girls fault, it is lack of training.
Understandably daughter is not in a hurry to get them re done(we are not going back to salon) but I read from one of the posts that you need to wait until the lumps inside the ear have gone, I still have very tiny lumps in my ears where they were pierced 38 yrs ago, i guess this is scar tissue. Sorry for so many questions!

Firstly, are the earrings in or out?

If out, I would expect to see marks where the piercing used to be. That will disappear as everything heals up.

No, not twisting the earring would not cause the butterfly to stick to the earlobe.

It's normal to pierce earlobes with studs with thicker posts. I expect they're around 1.2mm. Most shop bought earrings are thinner than that, which is why you found it difficult inserting the stud into your own ears OP. If you are worried that the salon used inappropriate jewellery then that is certainly not the case.

I don't think you have any cause for complaint. People who pierce ears in salons have very minimal training. They are not professional body piercers. So if the advice they gave you was, in hindsight, wrong, then you chalk it up to experience and use a professional next time.

Yes, the girl in the salon should not have forced the studs out. But you tried and failed yourself and then went to the salon so they could attempt it. Again, that was a mistake, and you can't blame the salon for doing what you asked of them.

Hi, thank u for your reply. Yes the earrings are out now. That is reassuring about the marks. regarding salon, I have read on other post on here that they have a days training at beauty salons, so that would figure. I don't think they used inappropriate jewellery, from what you have said it sounds about right. With regards to body piercers I always thought they would not pierce anyone under 16, or is that just for belly button and other piercing? It sounds like a less brutal way of piercing than the gun, but the word needle freaks my daughter out, as they imagine it is going to hurt, I doubt it hurts as much as the gun. I think that maybe best thing to do is wait until she is older and understands that that's best place to go.

I had a BIG problem with this when I was 11. It was my first day of ‘Big School’ and they had a no earrings policy :( we could not get my studs out. In the end my mum ended up pinning me down on the bed pulling the front of my ear and my dad pulling the back 😔 I was screaming 😱 our in pain. We left them out for 3 days after that then decided to put them in again. This was worse than getting them pierced I can remember clearly how much screaming 🙀 and crying 😭 there was it hurt 🤕 so bad I can almost feel the pain thinking 💭 about it but we got them through. My ears 👂 have always been very funny ,I can now only have 9 carrot 🥕 gold because my ears are so sensitive !!