Text/Chen Jiajia
Wear earrings to add points to your dress. You can choose more styles of earrings after piercing your ears, and you don't have the trouble of holding your earlobe red and painful with clip-on earrings for a long time. However, ear holes can also lead to allergies and even the crisis of bacterial infection. Remind beauty lovers that whether it is disinfection care for ear piercing or choice of earrings material, they should not be careless.
Lu Yin, an attending dermatologist in Taipei Chang Gung Hospital, often encounters problems such as wound infection, cellulitis, hypertrophic scar and swelling of crab feet due to poor care of ear holes. Her own initial experience of getting her ears pierced was not very smooth. 3 1 year-old, when I pierced my ear for the first time, I was allergic to wearing K-gold earrings, which almost led to hypertrophic scars. She quickly took off her earrings, rested for a year before piercing her ears for the second time, and carefully cared for the wound for half a year before she dared to wear new earrings.
Although it is a small wound, there is a great risk of incomplete disinfection.
Many people will buy earrings in night markets and shopping malls and let salespeople pierce their ears with ear piercing guns, but there is an infection crisis behind the little moves. Lu said that although the store will wipe the ear piercing gun with alcohol, wipe the ear with vaseline or white flower oil to relieve the pain, and complete the ear piercing vigorously, the barrel of the ear piercing gun cannot be disinfected, which may leave the body fluids, secretions or viruses of the last guest. In case the last guest has hepatitis B, AIDS, etc. Be careful of the risk of infectious diseases.
At present, the dermatology and plastic surgery departments of medical institutions all provide ear piercing services. Lu said that there are two ways to make ear holes, one is carbon dioxide laser or YAG laser; The other is the traditional hand piercing method, which uses a thick disposable 18 needle to pierce the earlobe. Both of them take about the same time, and they will be anesthetized first, and then injected locally before ear piercing to reduce the pain when ear piercing. Lu tried two kinds. She believes that the traditional hand-wearing method can fix the position of the earlobe and make ear piercing more accurate. If it is a laser, the position of the ear hole is not easy to be accurate. If it is crooked, it will affect the beauty of wearing earrings in the future.
After all, piercing your ears can cause wounds on your body. Therefore, disinfection and cleaning measures will be paid attention to when piercing ears in medical institutions. The doctor will soak the earrings brought by the people in 75% alcohol for disinfection 15 minutes or more, and will confirm the location where they want to get their ears pierced. Apply * * * cream after cleaning, and then wait for 40 ~ 60 minutes. Then the doctor will put on a sterile gloves, disinfect it with alcohol, inject local * * * into the earlobe and puncture it. There may be a little bleeding when the ear hole is pierced by hand, and then it can be pressurized with gauze 15 ~ 20 minutes.
Within a week is the golden age of nursing.
After ear piercing, one week is the golden period of nursing. Ear piercing in medical institutions will prescribe oral antibiotics and topical antibiotic ointment. It is suggested that people do simple self-care in the morning and evening after returning home, turn the ear nail, soak the sterilized cotton swab in normal saline or boiled cold water, clean the surrounding ear hole, and then apply antibiotic ointment. Sometimes doctors prescribe painkillers at their discretion.
In the meantime, try not to let the ear hole wound come into contact with water, and suspend swimming, soaking in water and other activities. Washing your hair is likely to wet your ears. After shampooing, remove the ear buckle of the earring, gently rotate the earring, and clean the back of the earlobe with a sterile cotton swab to avoid getting dirty. And blow dry the earlobe with a hair dryer and try to keep it dry. Generally speaking, the pain and redness will improve within one week, but if you still feel pain, itching or discharge after more than one week, you should be careful.
It is suggested that the earrings that have just been worn are best small single bead earrings, because they can't be taken off at first, and they should be worn 24 hours a day. The simpler, the less complicated, the better, so as not to feel uncomfortable when falling asleep.
You can take off your original earrings after a month of piercing. If you loosen the earring and gently pull the earring, and feel that the skin inside the ear hole has grown up and will not feel sticky, you can try to put on new earrings. Some people don't wear it for a few days, and they will find that the ear hole is blocked, or the ear needle seems to be unable to pass. It's best to go back to the medical institution and let the doctor re-pierce the ear. If you take your own ear needle, you may not only get infected because you don't pay attention to disinfection, but also wear it askew.
Allergy is related to the material of earrings.
After wearing earrings, I am most afraid of allergies. If I don't love beauty, I will suffer. If I have hypertrophic scars, I'm more likely to have to inject steroids to eliminate fibrous tissue first, and then use dye laser to smooth the traces of red scars. Lu said that avoiding allergies is closely related to the material of earrings. When the ear hole is just put on, the dermis of the skin will be exposed under the ear nail, and the earlobe is a place where blood circulation is particularly rich. So don't be greedy and cheap, it is best to choose stainless steel, pure gold of inert metal or silicone earrings to reduce the chance of allergies.
She reminded that it is best not to choose K gold material, because if the ingredients contain nickel, it is easy to cause allergies. Many people wear bracelets and necklaces in summer, and when their wrists and necks come into contact with ornaments, they are prone to sweat and lead to contact dermatitis, which is the result of allergies. If you have such experience, don't be careless when choosing earrings.
If you have allergies, you often feel itchy. If there is abnormal redness around the ear hole, or even yellow pus and other secretions flow out, it may cause bacterial infection. You should see a doctor as soon as possible.
Ear piercing is a minor operation by dermatologists and plastic surgeons, but beauty lovers can't underestimate the risks behind it. If you have swollen crab feet, wound healing in the past is likely to lead to excessive proliferation of fibrous tissue. It is best not to pierce your ears to avoid leaving ugly scars after the wound is inflamed, which will affect your appearance and make you regret it.
Choose the location of the hole carefully.
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