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A member asked:

I was told i could use contact solution (saline solution) to clean my newly pierced ears. is this a good safe idea?

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No problem: Contact saline is sterile and to the extent that cleaning a fresh piercing helps with the healing, those solutions are a good way to do it. Make sure you move the keeper in the piercing several time per day which will encourage the clean out and healing.

Answered 4/26/2016

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