Baby’s first earrings — What are the best baby earrings? │ Silvers.in.ua

A top­ic that con­stant­ly caus­es a lot of fierce debate among both par­ents and doc­tors is the first ear­rings for a child. As in any case, there are sup­port­ers and oppo­nents of pierc­ing the ears of young chil­dren.

Which ear­rings to choose for a girl is an indi­vid­ual ques­tion. The answer to it depends on the mate­r­i­al, the type of attach­ment and the appear­ance of the jew­el­ry. But it is worth know­ing about the advan­tages and dis­ad­van­tages of dif­fer­ent types of prod­ucts.

How to choose the right first earrings for a child?

Accord­ing to most sci­en­tif­ic and med­ical stud­ies, in order for a pierc­ing to heal quick­ly, the first ear­rings for chil­dren, as well as ear­rings for adults who have their ears pierced for the first time, should be made of pre­cious met­al — gold or sil­ver.

Here we are talk­ing not only about dis­in­fec­tion, but also about the like­li­hood of an aller­gy to the raw mate­ri­als from which the jew­el­ry is made.

Many cos­met­ic fac­to­ries that have mod­els for ear pierc­ing and broach in their cat­a­log pro­duce spe­cial ear­rings for beau­ty salons from cor­ro­sion-resis­tant sur­gi­cal steel, which con­tains up to 35% chromi­um, which guar­an­tees cor­ro­sion resis­tance, and up to 25% nick­el, the task of which is the strength of the met­al struc­ture. .

The main prob­lem is that both chromi­um and nick­el are aller­genic ingre­di­ents for 15% of the world’s pop­u­la­tion, so they are not suit­able for chil­dren. This is an impor­tant require­ment because the prod­ucts come into con­tact with a post-pro­ce­dure wound that can eas­i­ly become infect­ed. Gold and sil­ver ear­rings not only accel­er­ate the heal­ing of the punc­ture, they pre­vent infec­tions from enter­ing the wound, the occur­rence of infec­tion and inflam­ma­tion.

Which children’s earrings are better, more comfortable and safer?

Jew­el­ry for lit­tle girls should be light and as small as pos­si­ble, com­fort­able to wear, not dis­turb­ing dur­ing sleep, because at first they can­not be removed.

An impor­tant require­ment is that they do not cling to hair and clothes, so as not to injure the child, not to cause pain and dis­com­fort.

For this rea­son, as the first ear­rings for a child, one should not choose pen­dant and rich­ly dec­o­rat­ed with stones mod­els that do not suit small chil­dren at all. In such jew­el­ry, they look tense, unnat­ur­al and are afraid to move once again.

The ide­al option is the clas­sic first gold ear­rings for a child with col­ored enam­el in the form of minia­ture ones:

It is cus­tom­ary to choose the col­or of the stone insert accord­ing to the col­or of the baby’s eyes or accord­ing to the zodi­ac sign accord­ing to the date of her birth. White trans­par­ent zir­con is con­sid­ered uni­ver­sal — a neu­tral stone that suits every lit­tle lady.

As for the design and lock, chil­dren’s ear­rings of a smooth and round shape, with­out sharp edges, are pro­duced with a clas­sic mount, which is locat­ed in front for ease of putting on and wash­ing the wound. It is called “breeze” and is con­sid­ered the most reli­able, safe and fas­tens with a click.

Studs are allowed from 6 months, but they are uncom­fort­able to sleep in. Some­times such a fas­ten­er loosens, and they can be lost.

Screw-type mod­els are allowed from 9 months. But their pecu­liar­i­ty is the loose fit of the lid, under which dirt, dust, cream, soap get, so you have to peri­od­i­cal­ly remove and clean them.

It is unde­sir­able to buy ear­rings with adult Eng­lish, French and Ital­ian locks for small chil­dren because of the risk of injury and dis­com­fort.

When to give the first earrings for a baby?

Most pedi­a­tri­cians rec­om­mend pierc­ing the ears of a child between the ages of 3 and 6 months, pro­vid­ed that he is absolute­ly healthy. It is dur­ing this peri­od that bap­tism takes place. On this occa­sion, ear­rings are a good gift from a god­moth­er or dad.

Chil­dren’s jew­el­ry with a zodi­ac sign is appro­pri­ate to present for a birth­day, with a beau­ti­ful sparkling stone — for the New Year. Such an acces­so­ry will cause more joy and delight in a lit­tle fash­ion­ista than tra­di­tion­al sweets.

Anoth­er rea­son why you should­n’t put off get­ting your baby’s ears pierced for too long is that by the age of one year, the baby is not yet very mobile. Old­er chil­dren have more strength, they move more and faster, they can touch their ears, because their wound will heal longer.

The first proven method, which is quite fast and almost imper­cep­ti­ble, is ear pierc­ing with a gun, where spe­cial sur­gi­cal steel stud ear­rings are imme­di­ate­ly insert­ed. How­ev­er, this method is not suit­able for every­one due to a pos­si­ble aller­gic reac­tion to this mate­r­i­al. Only when the punc­ture site has healed, you can put on and wear the select­ed ear­rings from any mate­r­i­al. To pre­vent the holes from becom­ing over­grown, the child must wear the ear­rings with­out remov­ing them for at least 6 months.

The sec­ond option is to use a pierc­ing nee­dle. This pro­ce­dure takes much longer and is more painful. It is desir­able that it be per­formed by a pro­fes­sion­al cos­me­tol­o­gist or a spe­cial­ist with a med­ical edu­ca­tion. Its big plus is that you can imme­di­ate­ly put on the desired dec­o­ra­tion.

What earrings to choose for little princesses?

The most used pre­cious met­al is nat­ur­al 14 carat gold. Sil­ver is more afford­able.

Almost all chil­dren tol­er­ate gold very well with­out irri­ta­tion. Since it is resis­tant to exter­nal influ­ences, such prod­ucts can dec­o­rate the appear­ance of a child for years and be inher­it­ed by sev­er­al chil­dren.

• Yel­low gold is marked with the num­ber 585/1000, which indi­cates the ratio of gold to the total gold alloy. 58.5% of the total alloy is pure gold, the remain­ing 41.5% are oth­er impu­ri­ties.

• White gold is an alloy of pure gold with oth­er met­als such as pal­la­di­um and nick­el. How­ev­er, nick­el some­times caus­es aller­gic reac­tions.

• Rose gold is a com­pro­mise between white and yel­low gold. It is made with the addi­tion of cop­per, which gives it a red­dish tint, which is espe­cial­ly suit­able for peo­ple with fair skin.

• Sil­ver with a min­i­mum addi­tion of nick­el for strength — 925/1000. It con­tains 92.5% sil­ver and 7.5% oth­er met­als.

Check out our range the cat­a­log. There you will def­i­nite­ly find orig­i­nal prod­ucts for the fash­ion­able look of lit­tle princess­es. In order not to mis­cal­cu­late with the size, mea­sure the dis­tance from the punc­ture site to the end of the ear­lobe and add a few mil­lime­ters for a mar­gin so that the child can wear the jew­el­ry for sev­er­al years.