AfterCare Instructions

Congratulations on your new piercing! Below you can find important after care information and tips for decreasing complications and enjoying the most of your new piercing.

At princess Piercing, we hope you are satisfied with your experience and if there are any complications or questions regarding your aftercare, please contact us at princesspiercinghouston@gmail.com

Daily Cleaning

  • Always WASH your/child's hands before touching earrings and piercing. This is the number one step to preventing infection

  • Clean your child's ears morning and night with a sterile saline wound wash/solution.

These products can typically be found in the wound care aisle of any drug store/Target/Walmart. Recommend that you either directly spray the front and the back of the earring, or can apply solution to a Q tip or gauze to clean the earring and piercing.

  • Pat dry with towel

  • optional: can apply thin layer of petroleum jelly via clean Qtip to piercing once a day. Wet wounds tend to heal faster

  • Continue cleaning routine for 6 weeks

After 6 weeks, most piercings are completely healed and ready for changing if your child desires. Recommend to keep a piercing in ear at all times for at least one year. Piercings can close quickly.

Things to Avoid

  • Avoid cleaning ear piercing with alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, harsh products or fragrance heavy soaps. Be cautious of the use of products including shampoos, conditioners and lotions on fresh piercings. (recommend to clean ears after shower/bath)

  • Swimming for the first 24 hours. Afterwards, okay to swim just recommend cleansing ears after swimming

  • twisting or playing with earrings. Hand hygiene is important at preventing the spread of infection.

What to Expect

  • it is normal to experience some discomfort and swelling at the site of the ear piercing in the first 48 hours after initial piercing.

  • Your ear piercing may ooze a straw yellow colored liquid and form a crust- this is part of the normal healing process. You may clean the crust away during the twice daily cleanings.

  • Some itching in the weeks following the piercing can be common. This is part of the body's natural healing process.

Things to Look Out For

  • thick yellow or green pus associated with increasing tenderness and redness at the site of the ear piercing is typically a sign of infection. Continue cleaning regimen and reach out to myself or pediatrician.

  • inspect earring front and back often. If unable to see front or back or concerned earring has become embedded in child's ear, reach out to myself or pediatrician.