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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.
Most professionals recommend wearing earrings for 2 to 6 months following the piercing procedure. The ears will heal, but not close up afterwards. Nevertheless, after 5 years of piercing my ears, I did not wear any earrings for almost a year and although they had long healed, my piercings started to close naturally. So it really depends on the person, but it is important to wear earrings for a few weeks to a few months so the piercing heals without the ears closing. The older the piercings, the harder it will be for them to close. It can take up to 3 or 5 for older earring holes to heal and close if you no longer wear earrings. If the piercings are fresh, they may close up in a matter of hours and you might have to redo them. To prevent this, wear clean stud earrings, preferrably made from silver or gold to prevent infections. How long does it take for a ear piercing to heal?