Ear Health & Safe Earrings

To clean kids earrings: warm water, mild soap, once a week, with them out. Here is the routine that works, and the mistakes that mak...

When ear piercings keep getting infected it is often irritation rather than infection. Here is what tells them apart, and when to see a doctor.

The white gunk on earrings is sebum and dead skin cells from inside the piercing channel. Here is what it is, why it happens, and how to clear it.

Crusty earring holes mean the skin inside the channel is irritated and producing extra fluid. Here is what irritates it and how to settle it down.

Crusty earrings are usually dried fluid from skin irritated by the metal or by friction. Here is what causes it, and when to see a doctor.

To stop earrings smelling, take them out weekly and wash the earring and the lobe. Here is the routine that works, and what makes it worse.

Earrings smell like cheese because the same bacteria and the same chemistry are involved. Here is the actual explanation, and what to do about it.