REPLACING POST EARRINGS IN SWOLLEN EARLOBES

If you find that you have a need to replace your post earrings, before the piercing is fully healed, the following steps can help in reducing damage to delicate tissue.
There are many reasons to replace your starter earrings after the initial piercing:
  • PURE Titanium earrings were not available by your piercer
  • swollen or infected ears due to:
    • metal allergies
    • posts too short
  • a special occasion ~ not recommended, but you're going to do it anyway...right?
Obtain a sterile package of  Cannula Body Piercing Needles  and throw everything away EXCEPT for the plastic needle sleeve. 
Take care to order the right size needle to fit your posts...20GA is standard size.




With post in earlobe, remove the backer.

Test the fit of the tube with the replacement earrings, if the fit is too tight, cut the tapered end of the tube. DIP THE TUBE IN ALCOLOL AND LET DRY

Slip the sterilized tube over the post as far as it will go.


Push the tube through the piercing.


Exchange the earring.


Push the earring and tube back through the earlobe and remove the tube.
Standard 20GA Cannula Needle
$3
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