Piercing bruising and bleeding

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My daughter had her ears pierced at a tattoo parlour with very good reviews where I was very pleased with their standards of piercing etc and they used a needle to pierce. However, afterwards there was a lot of blood and awful bruising for quite a while. The tattoo parlour said it was normal and fine but I have never known anyone else bruise or bleed like that. School have not been happy as I totally didn’t think and had it done just before she returned to school so they wouldn’t let her do PE for weeks. We took them out for the first time last week and they seemed fine until today when she lost one of her sleepers ( small hoops) and the hole closed up really quickly. I put her studs back in and this made her ear bleed quite badly and it bruised straight away at the back. She has PE again tomorrow and I can just see us having this problem every week and her ears ending up infected. Is there anything I can do or should we just let them close up ( which I know will upset her). Sorry this was so long!

I don't understand why schools make such a fuss about a small pair of studs in PE.

My kids school have never asked for plasters to cover them up, or to remove them, in 7 years. Then out of the blue after my daughter got a second ear piercing over the summer (she was only wearing small studs in the new piercing and nothing in the first piercing) they starting fussing over them and asking for plasters over them in dance and PE.

What do plasters actually do? What purpose do they serve?!

I would return to wearing small studs at all times, clean with whatever antibac product you were using when they were first pierced. If school insists on plasters or taking them out just cover them up and let the piercings get better properly.

Thank you. The school won’t let her cover them up. They insist on them being taken out which is the problem. I think we will have to let them close.

You can get little invisible clear studs to keep them open?

mine bruised badly when I first got my second lobes done. Healed fine.

I did look at those but wasn’t sure about them as they only seem to be cheap ones on Amazon. I think the problem is she can’t let them heal properly because of school.

School don't get to force her to take them out. Stand your ground and say she will either cover them up or sit out of PE, but you will not be taking them out and risking infection.

Ok it wasn't the wisest thing to do it outside of the long summer holidays but it's done now and it isn't a hill the school should be willing to die on. Plenty of schools are happy for plasters or to just have small studs in. It really isn't an actual safety issue it's just nonsense.

@avemariiiaa Thank you I agree. She was allowed to do dance with them in yesterday so Hoping they can settle down again until next week!