piercing babies and toddlers.

[Kell_ee001]

Originally Posted by Wryel

Are there any health and safety requirements to be able to pierce ears?

With needles, yes but anyone can basically point the piercing gun and shoot!

To be honest, I have no idea when I got my ears pierced the first time. I think I was probably about 10 or so but that's really a guess - I know I didn't have them as a baby / toddler as my Mum didn't like the idea.

[Richard Slater]

It's got to be down to choice, babies can't make that choice simple as. Am I right in understanding that if you don't wear something in a piercing it will eventually heal up? if so I wouldn't have issue with children making their own decision assuming they were aware of the consequences - from that I would say 10-11 would probably be the youngest although it would have to be a judgment call.

[karbon]

it's pretty disgusting to abuse your children like that tbh.

and that's before you even get me started on how horrific piercing guns and jewllery are.


*edit* i do say children as in, under a consenting age. i got my ear pierced when i was 7 or 8 because i asked for it and my mum agreed.... i'm now full of holes, whoops.

[Pheebs]

Originally Posted by Richard Slater

It's got to be down to choice, babies can't make that choice simple as. Am I right in understanding that if you don't wear something in a piercing it will eventually heal up?

Yup. I have super healing ears annoyingly - coupled with that and the fact I don't wear earrings too often it means I have to frequently re-pierce my own ears.

Makes Picky want to faint when he hears the little "pop" Always legs it out the room! Hehehee!

[Feek]

Originally Posted by Richard Slater

I right in understanding that if you don't wear something in a piercing it will eventually heal up?

I think there becomes a point where that doesn't happen. I doubt my ear piercing would heal after being there for over twenty years.

[LeperousDust]

Originally Posted by Feek

LMF had her ears pierced when she was about 9 or 10 I think, I can't remember! YMF had his done (just the left one) at the same time and he's just under two years younger. They both asked for it and we had no problems with it.

I had my ear pierced at 21 and a tattoo at 42. Wonder what will happen when I'm 63

Or 84?

Originally Posted by vix

Chavs weren't invented when i was a baby

Chavs have always been around, its just recently the media coined them a name.

[karbon]

Originally Posted by Richard Slater

Am I right in understanding that if you don't wear something in a piercing it will eventually heal up?

kinda yes and no. when fully healed you'll essentialy have a tube of skin grown through the piercing (called a fistula). different parts of your body heal to this stage in different times, and as much as lobe piercings are very common they're actually one of the hardest to heal and keep healthy.

what will happen though is that it will shrink, and at that point the side walls of the fistula can start to fuse together again slightly, but it won't be the whole way through, and 90% of the time it will still be obvious there was a piercing there.

[vix]

Originally Posted by LeperousDust

Or 84?


Chavs have always been around, its just recently the media coined them a name.

Ok, put it another way, my mum wasn't a chav.

[Piggymon]

Nor mine.

[Lomster]

Some childrens ears heal, if they get the pierced at a couple of months old and then take them out for nursery at age of 3 some kids ears close where others don't.
I pierced my nose myself when I was 13 and spent 4years without it in and the hole hasn't closed at all.
Ears I hadly ever wear earings due to small people and them being interested in them and pulling on them and my holes never close up.
I couldn't wear earings at school so spent years only wearing them now and again and the holes never closed up at all.
I think it just depends on the person as some people can heal up really quick like Pheebs