Cartilage Piercing

Bye bye single lobe piercing.
Bye bye rebel status for your cartilage piercing.
Hello my ongoing inability to spell (I’m a doctor who had to google how to spell cartilage.)
We have the contoured ear craze.
So as with many universal fashion crazes, I put on my sheep skin coat, and decided to join in.
Only, this isn’t the typical fashion craze. This involves taking a needle and forcing it through that material that isn’t quite skin, and isn’t quite bone. The avascular cartilage of your ear.
By avascular, I refer to the fact that much of your ear doesn’t have its own blood supply. So if you want to pierce the cartilage of your ear, there is a good chance of it becoming infected. And more so, getting rid of that highly inevitable infection, is not very easy.
I’ve discussed with multiple physicians who have all said that these piercings are on the rise, and so are the antibiotics to treat them.
If you decide to get an ear piercing yourself
1. go to a reputable (and clean looking) piercer.
2. Don’t allow them to use a piercing gun on your cartilage. If they do-think again about whether this is a reputable piercer.
3. Clean your piercing with warm salt water twice a day every day until healing is complete.
4. Try not to fiddle with the piercing and avoid twisting it as was previously advised.
5. Consider wisely whether you really want the piercing in the first place.
If it starts to itch, look red, feel hot (as mine did) go and see a doctor immediately. A minor infection is treatable, but sepsis can develop and is much much more dangerous.
If you’re below 16, best take your parent or guardian with you.
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