2007-01-25 21:33:15 · 6 answers · asked by heyyyleni 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
im thinking bacterial/fungal infection.... i never had any piercings though
also, some companies dont accept applicants with ear piercings(male)
2007-01-25 21:39:16 · answer #1 · answered by lnfrared Loaf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At my hospital (workplace) a little girl came in very sick one day. She was about 7 years old. The medical staff ran all kinds of tests on her condition but failed to determine the cause of her sickness. Finally, some blood work showed she was positive for HIV and then it was determined that her immune system had degraded to the point a simple cold was killing her. They helped her with some medications and a blood transfusion and I believe today she is doing fine.
The doctors tried to figure out how she got HIV. Her mother and father tested negative for it. In the end, the only explanation was an ear piercing she had received a year ago. There was no other way that she could have been infected as nothing else had happened to her. She was not sexually active.
So be extremely careful when you go to a public place to get your ears pierced. Make sure you see that the penetrating needles have been sterilized, before they use them on your ears.
2007-01-25 21:42:22 · answer #2 · answered by Billy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure. I was 8 and the girl had the piercing gun all ready, she told me she would count to three and then shoot the gun so i'd be ready for the pain. Left ear went fine. She went to do the right ear, counted to three, i braced, heard the gun pop and thought it was over. NO. the gun had gotten jammed and decided to pierce my ear about five seconds after i thought it had already been done. I squealed, jumped up with the gun still attached to my ear, my ear lobe tore a little bit because i jumped up from not expecting the pain. the holes still looked ok and pretty even so my mom wasn't mad about it. After that, no matter what i did, no matter how well i took care of my ears with that solution or whatever, my right ear kept on getting infected. i ended up having to take the earrings out and letting the holes seal up.
2007-01-25 21:41:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the first time I had mine done at age 12 they got infected. I had to take them out and wait for a good year before getting them done again. Come to find out, many are allergic to metal in the body. I found out I can only wear 14 k and even with this type of metal I can only wear them for a little while.
Now, my son Corey got his ear peirced and he is now being checked for Hepatitis C (which he had been previously tested prior to his peircing). Even thought the technician was aware of HCV (her aunt has it) it's never fool proof of acquiring it, no matter how "clean" and sterile" the gun is...HCV can reconstitute given the right circumstances. *HCV is blood borne, anotherwords blood to blood transfer has to take place. All it takes is a little itty bit to become infected. (dried or fresh blood).
I will not allow my son to get a face or mouth or nose peircing because you can actually die from infection (too close to the brain)
2007-01-26 09:21:45 · answer #4 · answered by giggling.willow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know anyone else that this has happened to but I was so worried about my ears getting infected that I kept cleaning it with surgical spirit so much that I actually removed several layers of skin from my lobes and they became swollen and sore through over sterilizing.
2007-01-25 21:40:07 · answer #5 · answered by mia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when i was 16 i got my belly button pierced and it hurt for about a week. my younger sister was all too aware of this and use to punch me there just to cause me more pain :(
such a *****!
2007-01-25 21:38:18 · answer #6 · answered by Euro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋