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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.
6 weeks to fully heal to be able to change the earring. cartilage piercings take longer to heal than some other piercings. 6- 12 months is standard. A year is not uncommon either. If you take it out even when it is fully healed and leave it out for too long the hole will close up and this can happen very quickly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_pierci...