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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.
Allow Piercings to Heal for Six to Eight weeks. Piercing professionals recommend wearing only piercing studs in your newly pierced earlobes for six to eight weeks. This will give the piercings time to heal and strengthen. After this time the original studs can be removed and heavier, dangling earrings can be worn.