Ear Piercing And How It Has Changed
Okay so go back some years and remember if this is a familiar story, you and your mom are out shopping for say oh I don’t know, a henckels knife set, you come across a sign that says Ear Piercing $5 you big your mom and eventually she says yes, you sit on a box whilst some kid comes at you with something that looks like a gun! Ouch!
Body modification of which ear piercing is most certainly a part of is getting more popular and more accepted these days, the people that practise these modifications are under more regulations and understand more about better and easier methods that create less trauma and pain for the piercee. These people like many others want ear guns to be banned.
You may wonder then why such big companies use guns and pass them off as safe. Well think of it like this, the gun is made of plastic so it can’t be sterilized, viruses like hepatitis and HIV can live on those guns that get a simple once over with a wet wipe. Secondly is the way the ear (or goodness forbid another body part) is pierced.
When a lobe or other part is pierced with a needle the piercer rarely has to use much force because the needle is so sharp that it causes very little trauma to the area. With ear piercing guns the blunt jewellery is fired at force through the lobe causing blunt force trauma and this is why many people especially young children end up in A&E needing treatment for infections, trauma and swelling where the butterfly back has ended up embedded in the ear. You may as well give your knife block set a try after all its about the same idea!
And yet parents will still take their children time and time again to these places as they don’t know otherwise, they will blame all other issues before looking at the horrible thing used to shove a piece of cheap jewellery into their kids ear and the resulting blunt force trauma involved.
So what is the alternative? How about a properly licensed and regulated body piercer? Okay they may charge more but that’s because they will have had training on things such as blood borne pathogens, have fully autoclaved sterilization procedures (no nothing is boiled in a countertop microwave ), the correct jewellery tailored for the individual etc.
The extra few bucks you pay to go to a piercing will mean that you will have a good half an hour spent on you and you alone, you’ll be talked through the process, correct jewellery just for you will be selected that will not irritate you, after care will be fully explained and you will have the chance to pop back in for a check up too! Don’t get that in stores now do you?
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