I want to have my cartilage pierced but.....?

Question

my mom wont let me becuase of the "acupuncture"

uhm.. Im very thin and I wont need acupuncture thingy to get thinner even though I get older. I just want my cartilage pierced!

but what are the other negative effects of having cartilage pierced ?

Answer 1

Having your cartilage pierced by a professional is safe and there is little risk for problems unless you tear out the jewelry or get it infected from poor aftercare.

PLEASE do not get pierced with a gun.

Piercing guns are not sterile. parts of the piercing guns cannot be put into an autoclave, which is the machine that hospitals and piercing studios alike use to clean their tools to kill germs. Tiny bits of tissue, blood, bacteria and viruses can remain within the apparatus and be transferred to you.

On top of the health risks associated with disease, piercing guns cause a great amount of blunt tissue trauma, which can lead to keloids or hypertrophic scarring. Hypertrophic scarring is a very ugly kind of blotch that may be pink or raised, it's not pleasant. Keloids are large, pink, raised bumps that can grow so large they have to be removed surgically. They can cause shattered cartilage, which is unfixable and painful, and very ugly.

The piercers who use guns are often not trained in blood-borne pathogens, or in piercing itself. They do a 2 day seminar on how to use it, but are NOT certified piercers. The APP tells anyone to stay away from piercing guns and to never get pierced by an amateur.

Piercing guns should be made illegal, the really should.

Answer 2

owwwwwwch

Answer 3

If they don't use a needle, the gun can shatter cartilage, I remember doing something about this in school, in fact found the article about risks.

Answer 4

Infection and pain.