I have this smell coming fom my ears were they are pierced .?

Question

The smell is coming from the piercing themselves. It have noticed it is that build up that is on your earings when you take them out . I have had it since i have gotten my ears pierced which has been years ago . How do I get rid of it ?

Answer 1

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Do you keep your earings in all the time? Sounds like just a build up of, for lack of better word, crud. I would clean the earrings with alcohol or take them out and soak them in cleaner if they are really dirty.When you sweat or swim or what ever, that stuff can stick to the earrings and over time can build up. Shampoos and conditioners etc can add to the problem as well. I take my earing out once a week and soak in cleaner and rest of the time i just wipe with alcohol or some other cleaner to get rid of the residue on there.
Hope this helps

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Got 9 earring and three other piercing

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Girl i have 9 piercings too plus my belly button . God i thought it was just me . Thanks .

Answer 2

i think u have an infection get it checked asap
my friend hate the same problem it lasted a yr before she got it checked and she had like an "inside bubble" and had to get the puss popped

Answer 3

try cleaning your ears with an alcohol pad or some thing like that.

Answer 4

i have it to

just get some spray, you can get it from hair dressers that do the piercings or chemists

it smells like your belly button?

Answer 5

omg, THAT IS WHAT HAPPEND TO ME! but i dont know how to cure it, maybe it is infected, im not sure if i find out i will tell you! good luck bye! xo

Answer 6

its probably a soap build up that you don't get to rinse off well.....soak your earring in hydrogen peroxide and wipe your pierce with alcohol...thats considering its not inflamed or anything like that

Answer 7

I call it "ear cheese". At least when you gauge your ears, it the flesh. And I'm going to guess the open skin from the piercing is causing the smell. i recommend going to a tattoo shop to get some ear wash for the shower to make them nice and healthy, the smell might go away.

Answer 8

This is a common infection that can be treated by a visit to the doctors this means that either the needle that pierced your ear wasn't cleaned right or the puncture wound set off an infection you should get that check out as soon as you can or the infection could get worse.

Answer 9

idk and that happens to me too (been pierced for about 6 year) they've never been infected, so i dont worry about it.

i wouldnt worry.

:)

Answer 10

what your smelling is what is often referred to as ear cheese, it means you're not cleaning your piercings enough, or you've stretched your holes.

dab on some peroxide and let it clean, if need be dig out any solid matter in the hole while you're doing this.

Answer 11

Ah, yes this just happens when they are unclean. Clean them. Belly buttons can do that sometimes too. It just happens when they aren't properly cleaned. Don't worry about it.

Answer 12

the smell is due to excessive dead cell build up.

to get rid of the smell, make sure you are constantly washing the earing (they should have given you some kind of wash).

Answer 13

Sure, that's normal! No worries! You might even notice that different materials will make different smells! I have 5/8 stretched lobes and I have nearly no smell or gunk with glass plugs but a lot with my steel ones. It's just dead skin and dried secretions.

THIS IS NOT AN IN INFECTION!!!
You would be in a good amount of pain, there would be swelling, redness, puss (either inside or coming out) and heat coming from that are- you wouldn't be wearing earring if this was an infection you would know something was wrong.

Here are some sources:
http://www.tribalectic.com/Drupal/articleson/healing
http://tattoo.about.com/cs/beginners/l/blpiercingtlc.htm
http://www.buddhas.com/care.htm#other

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http://www.tribalectic.com/Drupal/articleson/healing
http://tattoo.about.com/cs/beginners/l/blpiercingtlc.htm
http://www.buddhas.com/care.htm#other
and 10 years experience!

Answer 14

i doubt it's infected.
it's just discharge or ear cheese.
it's nothing to worry about, but clean it out with ear piercing solution.

Answer 15

I have the same smell. Its a reaction a natural reaction of your body. Simply clean the piercings daily twice if you like with alcohol. Its about all you can do. Even if you took the piercings out the smell would still remain.

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Liscensed body piercer

Answer 16

ALCOHOL i have it to well did

Answer 17

it means its infected and u should go c a doctor about it

Answer 18

Try this soap
http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Provon

Never use Alcohol on your piercings.....its tooo harsh and drying.

Answer 19

Make sure your earrings are gold or white gold
not silver cos silver turns black

And have a bath and take your earrings out and lie back n the bath and make sure you soak your ears in the bath
turn your head though cos otherwise ull drown or something

thats what i'd do
it would work

Answer 20

clean your ears with acholol 3 times a day