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Clean your piercing regularly for the first few weeks. Cleaning your piercing on a regular basis will help stimulate healing and prevent an infection. As a result, you should use a saline solution on your ears every day, and clean your piercing with soap as needed (once a day at most) for the 4-6 week healing period.
1 If you had piercings in the infected ear, disinfect the piercing. 2  Even if your ears have minor pain and it has been a few weeks you should take your earings out, clean them and then put the earings back in. 3  Don't worry if the infection persists for less than 24 hours.  Take your earrings out for a short period of time.