Earrings – indispensable attribute of femininity which carries the vast majority of women, since the most tender age and till an extreme old age.
Often mothers of little girls seek to pierce ears to the child as soon as possible, motivating the actions with the fact that on earrings it will be possible to distinguish the girl from the boy. Already six-month babies became frequenters of beauty shops.
At what age it is better for child to pierce ears?
In terms of official medicine, you should not pierce ears before achievement of three years by the child. First, up to three years there is a formation of a lobe of an ear, and you should not touch the nervous terminations in this zone. Secondly, with growth of auricles the place of a puncture can be displaced and look ugly, then it is necessary to do a new puncture, at the same time the small scar from the first puncture will also remain. Thirdly, the child during the outdoor games can be hooked by an earring and injure an ear lobe. And, at last, your daughter can just not want to wear earrings at adult age. It is the best of all to wait when the girl grows up and will independently make the decision whether she wants to pierce ears.
On the other hand, children's psychologists claim that children to whom they pierced ears up to one and a half years pay attention to a puncture less, do not finger and practically at once forget about pain during the procedure. It is, perhaps, the only plus of a puncture of ears at early age.
If you decided not to hurry and wait for conscious desire of the child, it is worth resolving this issue up to 11 years as after achievement of this age the probability of emergence of keloid hems in the place of a puncture increases.
What to choose season
You should not pierce ears in the summer. The heat, dust, bathing in reservoirs can lead to inflammation of punctures and increase in time of healing. Also it is worth carrying out the procedure before the child begins to wear a cap not to cling an earring headdress. The end of August or the beginning of September is considered ideal time, just before the onset of cold weather the punctures will manage to begin to live.
What else factors should be considered, being going to pierce ears to the child?
It is impossible to carry out the procedure during a disease of the child or directly after its treatment at all. Wait, at least, a few weeks for restoration of an organism of the child. If your child often is ill, perhaps, he weakened immunity, it is better to postpone piercing of ears for half a year-year. And, at last, even if you received informed consent of the child on the procedure, chose beauty shop, paid for the procedure and seated the girl in a chair, and suddenly the child was frightened and refuses flatly to pierce ears – do not insist and do not try to persuade the child to agree manipulations, try to come later, in order to avoid developing of a psychological trauma.