What is the best disinfectant for ear piercing? Is alcohol or iodine used for ear piercing?

After getting your ears pierced, you must clean them. If you want to reduce inflammation in your ear piercings, which disinfectant is better, alcohol or iodine?

After piercing the ears, you can generally use medical alcohol, iodine, hydrogen peroxide, and erythromycin eye ointment for local disinfection. Of course, when using the above items for disinfection, there are still the following clinical precautions:

First, if the patient has just had his ears pierced, it is best not to use medical alcohol for disinfection, because medical alcohol can cause great damage to the mucous membrane and cause severe pain in the patient. At this time, hydrogen peroxide or iodine tincture can be used for disinfection, which may cause less irritation. Second, if the patient has had his ears pierced and a few days or a week later, local infection is found, then alcohol can be used first, followed by iodine tincture for disinfection. After disinfection, some erythromycin eye ointment can be applied locally to keep the disinfectant acting on the wound, thereby promoting better healing of the wound.

The third is that if local granulation tissue or scar hyperplasia is found after ear piercing, clinical disinfection still needs to be paid attention to at this time. Disinfection must be persistent and must be thorough, because repeated infection can easily lead to the formation of local granulation tissue and scars.

After the patient has pierced the ear or the ear hole is infected, either iodine or alcohol can be used for disinfection, both of which can be antibacterial and reduce swelling. Relatively speaking, alcohol may be better, but when using it, the patient feels more irritating, and iodine may cause pigmentation. It is recommended that patients apply it regularly three times a day, which can effectively prevent infection, sterilize, and disinfect, and reduce the patient's chance of infection. If the swelling is obvious, you can also apply mupirocin cream around it. It is recommended that patients do not touch the ear hole with their hands, and they must pay attention to hand hygiene. The earrings you wear must be made of a material that suits you. Patients need to know clearly what material the earrings are allergic to, and try to avoid contact to avoid causing infection in the patient.

Hand piercing is better. Usually, hand piercing uses a silver needle to pierce the earlobe directly, which has less impact on the ear and a smaller wound surface. Compared with gun piercing, it is less likely to cause inflammation and is more conducive to later healing. Therefore, hand piercing is better than gun piercing.

There are some things to pay attention to when getting your ears pierced, because it requires making an incision in the ear, which can easily cause health problems if not properly cared for.

Things to keep in mind every day after getting your ears pierced:

You need to disinfect your ear holes and ear needles with alcohol cotton every day.

What you need to do every day is to rotate the ear needle, and then use alcohol cotton or cotton pads to disinfect the front and back of the ear hole. In addition, if the ear hole is not crooked, you can completely remove the ear needle (after 3-5 days) and disinfect the ear stick or ear needle. Bear with the pain!

Don’t touch or scratch your ears if they itch. Be patient and persevere.

After getting your ears pierced, especially in winter, your ears will be itchy. At this time, you must not touch or scratch your ear holes with your hands. You must be patient and persistent, because only in this way can you ensure that the ear holes heal normally without redness, swelling, and pus.

Pay attention to whether the earrings or ear bars fall off, and be patient when you put them back in after they fall off

The earrings and earrings will fall off if you don't pay attention after piercing your ears. This is what I fear the most, because once they fall off, it means they have to be reinserted. If the wound has healed, it's fine. If it hasn't healed, it will easily cause redness, swelling and infection. So after they fall off, pay attention to disinfect with alcohol, and then reinserte them patiently and slowly.

Do not wear earrings made of other materials within 3 months to prevent inflammation.

Within 3 months after getting your ears pierced, except for replacing them with plastic ear bars, it is best not to wear earrings or ear studs made of other materials. Vanity needs a good carrier, so the same goes for ear piercing. Be sure to wait until it is completely healed before starting again to prevent inflammation.

If the ear hole becomes inflamed and pus forms, you need to squeeze it out and then wipe it with alcohol or erythromycin

If your ear piercing accidentally becomes inflamed and pus forms, you must be patient and ruthless to squeeze out the pus, then disinfect it with alcohol. You can apply a little erythromycin before and after the ear piercing, and you can also apply a little on the ear needle or ear stick to make it easier to insert it into the ear hole.