Why not? A kid has to volunteer for a painful ordeal resulting in something she really wants, but can't begin to explain why. This is a self determined rite of passage, she wants it, she has to be courageous and she has to do the pain. Like a super rollercoaster ride, only it comes with a lifetime medal. A CF kid has to endure a lot of sticks and pokes, totally unwanted and certainly nothing all the other girls would envy. Resist a little but once you are “convinced”, participate quietly, assuring its success. Don’t make it central to her experience, she already understands more about sterile protocol than she should.
In all probability the dog could bite her ear lobe without risk of infection. Cheap gold studs can be lethal. Anything short of 14k solid gold training studs are not acceptable by my standards. Any gold plate or gold fill, a thicker plating, is primed for rejection by the body. The base metal in gold plated jewelry is a combination of tin, zinc and sometimes lead. Jewelers refer to non precious metals like a tin based casting alloy as “metal” otherwise it has a name like silver. Whether the studs begin as 14k gold or just metal, both are electroplated with pure gold for sales presentation. Cheap metal studs require an electroplating of copper before gold can be plated onto the final surface. This metal sandwich reacts with the tiny wound through the ear lobe and almost always becomes inflamed or infected. To insure you are buying 14k gold studs, the jewelry will have a tiny stamp or gold label with a stamp. At the minimum, the printed paper label with the product information. I bought a pair of studs for my niece at a known jewelry store and she picked out a pair of studs where we had the piercing done. She wore both pairs without any incident. I realize that gold is at a premium and if you have studs you would like to pass on to your daughter and aren’t sure if they are solid, a jeweler can test it in about fifteen seconds.
Take a picture or three,
LL
P.S. Ok, I made it through without going off about alternate piercing sites and gauges. Personal expression aside, nobody, let alone a CFer should risk piercing a mucosal skin. That means the inside of the nose, mouth and genitals. I am no expert on the interaction between milk ducts, skin and metals but I would ask a doctor before putting a nail through a nipple. I have no problem with gauges but a lot of employers do. If I were to argue against gauges, it would be that it limits career opportunities. It may be wrong, but wrong doesn’t stop most things from happening in life.
I'm 17 with ddf508 , I would be a real germ phobic and I have 7 piercings all together haha! Never had any problems. I think it would be nice to let her get them done, we have to live as normal life as possible after all