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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 Shield your ear when you apply hair spray, and keep gel and mousse away from your ear piercings.  Try not to sleep on your side during the healing process, particularly if youâve recently gotten a helix piercing. Youâre likely to wake up with a throbbing red ear if you do.