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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.
Skip the Swimming Pool. Safety regulations advise you not to swim, sit in a hot tub or take hot baths until your piercing has healed. According to the Oregon Health Licensing Agency, piercings in the ear lobe takes six to eight weeks to heal, while ear cartilage piercings take four months to one year to heal completely. Piercings heal on the outside first and follow with healing on the inside. A piercing may look healed externally when it is not.