Giordano advises her patients to clean the wound daily with mild soap and water, cover it with a bandage, and apply petroleum jelly for the week or so that the stitches are in place. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, petroleum jelly helps wounds stay moist so that the injured skin can heal.
Sometimes, a small portion of tissue gets torn from the ear during a traumatic injury. If this happens to you, dampen a piece of gauze or cloth and carefully wrap up the severed piece of tissue. Place the wrapped piece of earlobe on a bed of ice cubes, then drive to the nearest hospital immediately.
A common injury is a split earlobe. So you may wonder: Will this heal on its own, or do I need to seek medical attention? The good news is that (unless you have a condition that limits your ability to heal), the wound itself on both sides of the split should close on its own.
There are no non-surgical treatment options. I have seen patients try to use scotch tape or crazy glue to hold the torn edges together, however this is not recommended due to secondary skin irritation from the adhesives.
Use concealer or foundation to hide piercing holes.
One of the easiest ways to hide the hole of a piercing, especially one on your face, is to apply make-up. Use concealer or foundation that's the colour of your skin to hide the hole and blend the area into the skin around the piercing hole.
Earlobe repair recovery time:
Following earlobe repair, stitches are typically removed around 1 week, and the earlobe can be re-pierced once the area has fully healed, which is roughly 1-2 months. When piercing your ears again, you should not get the same spot pierced, as the scar tissue may cause complications.
Most split earlobes occur gradually due to large or heavy earrings. In some instances, the earlobe is split traumatically because an earring gets caught or is pulled forcefully.
To help speed up the healing process, Bubbers recommends wearing earrings made of implant-grade metal so your body will form a healed layer around the metal. You also should avoid going any longer than 24 hours without wearing earrings for the first six months of a new piercing to prevent the hole from closing.
Repair of torn earlobe is a frequently performed aesthetic surgical procedure [1]. Torn earlobes are clinically referred to as split earlobes or cleft earlobes [2]. The etiology of the condition may be trauma, heavy earrings or even metal allergy [3]. The incidence of the condition is about 1-2% [4].
With proper care, most mild earlobe infections will clear up in 1 to 2 weeks. It is common to have them come back without daily earring care.
An infected ear piercing can also develop years after a person got the original piercing. Usually, the infections are minor, and people can treat them at home without complications. Touching the piercing too often with dirty hands or not cleaning the area can lead to infections.
Eating healthy, drinking plenty of water, and keeping a positive attitude will help the healing process. Get some rest and take it easy. Get plenty of sleep and try to maintain a low-stress lifestyle. Keep it clean.
The most common cause is simply increased friction between the ear hole and the earring. This is most easily remedied by putting petroleum jelly on the earring post and then inserting it into the ear. The petroleum jelly will lubricate the earring to reduce friction.
Gently pat dry the affected area with clean gauze or a tissue. Then apply a small amount of an over-the-counter antibiotic cream (Neosporin, bacitracin, others), as directed on the product label. Turn the piercing jewelry a few times to prevent it from sticking to the skin.
If the hole is only slightly stretched out, a dermatologist, plastic surgeon or other cosmetics professional can inject hyaluronic acid, a temporary dermal filler, into the lobes.
Applying a warm compress to the infected earlobe or cartilage. Cleaning the infected ear piercing with sterile saline. Using antibiotic ointment on the affected area. Taking oral antibiotics for more severe infections.
Yes, you can do both at the same time.
Either way, it would be nice to get your torn earlobe repaired and get new earrings all at once. I know that many plastic surgeons recommend that you wait 6 to 8 weeks after earlobe repair to have your ears repierced.
Your piercing might be infected if: the area around it is swollen, painful, hot, very red or dark (depending on your skin colour) there's blood or pus coming out of it – pus can be white, green or yellow. you feel hot or shivery or generally unwell.
Crustiness, on the other hand, is the buildup of seepage that results from the body trying to heal the piercing as it would any other wound. Typically these are light or near-colorless and should reduce as the piercing, and healing process, matures.
Ear piercings are generally safe but can become infected if they are touched with dirty hands or not cleaned every day. If an infection does occur, there may be swelling, redness, pain, warmth, and a pus-like discharge from the piercing.
Typically, ear lobe piercings take around 4-6 months, while upper or inner ear piercings take between 6-12+ months to fully heal. You'll know your ear is healed once any discharge, swelling, redness, flaking, or soreness stops.