My cartilage piercing has been hurting and sore for the past few weeks. I have been putting hydrogen peroxide on it and it hasnt helped much. There isnt much liquid coming from it. I dont know if it is infected or not. I found some Gentian Violet and I was wondering if it was good to heal the piercing
Hi. Thanks for the query. It looks like your cartilage at the site of piercing has got infected leading to pain and discharge, although if the discharge is less also the small amounts of discharge can be due to pus formation. Gentian violet has antiseptic property and is more antifungal and mild antibacterial and the infection in this case is bacterial... You should take a short course of antibiotics and in case of pain you can take anti-inflammatory painkiller like Advil. Apply antimicrobial ointment like newsprint or tobramycin over the piercing site. Avoid wearing earrings till it heals and even after that wear inert metal earrings like gold, plastic, stainless steel etc. Hope this helps. Regards.