A. It’s normal to have some redness, swelling or pain for a couple of days after getting your ears pierced. But your ears should look and feel better each day. If you find that your ears do great and then suddenly start to become red, inflamed or crusty a week or two later, that’s usually a sign of infection.
In this regard, why do my ears burn when I put earrings in?
If your ears get red and itchy when you wear earrings, it most likely means that you are allergic to a metal in the earring posts. The most common metal allergy people have is to nickel. … However, for others, even a very tiny amount of a metal they are sensitive to will cause a reaction.
- Discharge coming out of the piercing.
- Fever.
- Redness, warmth or swelling around the piercing.
- Tenderness in the pierced earlobe or cartilage.
Likewise, can ear piercings cause nerve damage?
The horror story that comes with the tragus is that in that particular location if pierced incorrectly you can cause nerve damage but Stephanie says that’s not the case, ‘While it is true that veins, arteries and nerves run up and branch into the side of the face, piercing one in the ear is a very wide spread myth.
Should I twist my ear lobe piercing?
Touching your ear
Also, never twist the bar in the ear while the piercing is healing, just let it do its thing. And if you’re finding it tricky not to sleep on the pierced side, use a travel pillow! ‘
