The Naples Daily News from Naples, Florida • 29

NAPLES DAILY NEWS Mon Apr 4 1977 5D Ear Piercing Deserves Medical Care swab earlobes with prepacked "clinical mark them for piercing and staple the earrings through Oh yes as far as nickel Basically they're taught to use a gun in which they insert a prepacked plastic cartridge containing a 14-carat gold earring One spoke English with great difficulty Neither in our two visits to the store asked any customer for a medical history or did anything more than content in Wells 14-carat gold earrings Silverman thought it did exist but the president of the company allowed as how he didn't know DINING and LOUNGE Hutwfau thtcriunuy "Th bubbling comtdy'nbout coum beco'rmng pirinti again when it'i tinw for thtm to become grandpwinti! Hilarious hi-imki!" )' IlfjlJ Jnhunc "A sunny rib-tickling vxplonvely funny comedy the heppmt diow in town!" 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Roast Leg of Lamb Pompano Stone Crabs YOUR CHOICE 695 fasy Twr Disaar kridMrOet lEVERYJIUESDAYiNIGHTIl asks Dr Thomas A Cortese Jr an Indianapolis dermatologist who has written about the complications of ear piercing And who ever thinks as he does to check any scars on the body? do that to make sure the person isn't subject to keloids That's when the tissue keeps building up after the wound is healed and you get a gi'owth that can be On the earlobe that would look like a marble obviously something to be avoid- ed Then the most common complication of all allergy to metal usually to nickel which is a common alloy of gold Pure gold you see is 24 carat Any other denomination 14 carat for instance means alloys have been added usually nickel because of its strength and color When women with a susceptibility to nickel allergy (perhaps one out of three) have their ears pierced with earrings containing nickel which is often the case they can develop an uncomfortable sensitivity which can last for life use earrings with stainless steel posts with 24-carat gold on top of that to pierce ears" Cortese says "and in ten years I've had no allergy at all in the patients I've All risks considered he concludes "There should be regulations against indiscriminate ear piercing by lay people" That may take some doing considering how department stores and jewelry companies thrive on ear-piercing promotions The "buy a pair of earrings and pierce your ears free" pitch one of the most successful ways to literally create new customers" says Norman Silverman New York Sales representative of Wells-Benrus which regularly sponsors earpiercing promotions in stores around the country January we had our first three-day ear piercing promotion in Gimbels in New York" he says "We did 800 women in those three days which amounted to $8000" The people who do the piercing he says are practical and registered nurses whom Wells trains for a week Acquired schools The 823-page saga by Richard Kluger will be developed into a dramatic television series for primetime showing on the Public Broadcasting Service according to CTW president Joan Ganz Cooney Came from Africa terns with special meanings says the research department of the National Association of Greeting Card Publishers A sunburst means good luck Flowers express the wish that the recipient's life will be filled with flowers love and beauty 4a Family Night TOWN A SPECIAL 10 pm IP TUESDAY NIGHT SPECIAL Wells supplies the store with liability insurance and the customer signs a form releasing Wells and the store from all responsibility for any "loss damage or injury including death" Her signature also acknowledges of the risks and hazards inherent in ear lobe piercing" But is she aware? And do the nurses take medical histories? "We instruct our people to ask things such as he says poor risk criteria "In fact we turned away people just today in a store on Long Island" We didn't see anyone turned away that day in Gimbels New York where Wells had just begun another three-day promotion We watched an endless line of women getting their ears pierced by two young women in white who said they were nurses Si i i STEAK TOWN A Where Lse Can You Order Baked Potato Choice DIFFERENT Freeh Pompono Frog-lip Proeancale and MANY OTHER FAVORITES For Reservations 262-3722 CONTINENTAL CAFE Gulf Shore Square 1400 Gulf Shore Blvd STEAK DINNER $199 4 pm to RIB-EYE STEAK DINNER Includes: Bake Potato or French Fries Tossed Green Salad Special Dinner Roll Butter 0rmf tha Whole Family at this Prica have a Steak in your future Get A Steak Cooked To Tossed Green Salad Your of Dressing a Special Hot Roll Butter Fof Only $199 At Steaktown USA "We Have A Steak In Your Future" 3148 Trail 774-0033 1 1 to 10 Mon thru Sot Closed Sundoy NEW YORK Do you know what you can get besides holes (or ornaments when you have your ears peirced? Given the right medical history and the right circumstances you can get dead for one thing Dr Robert Payne of Charlotte NC who specializes in internal medicine and cardiology knows of one such case Several years ago a college student 19 came to him with infected earlobes had pierced her ears herself using broom straws to keep the holes open" he says "and that's how the infection got started" And once started it moved quickly through the circulatory system into the brain The student eventually died of staph infection and a brain ab-cess Possibly she shouldn't have had her ears pierced at all because she had "severe rheumatic heart disease" and was vulnerable to infection Surely she shouldn't have done it without medical supervision Ear piercing you see creates a puncture wound which doctors say can provide a of entry" for infection especially when the piercing is done under non-sterile conditions at home in jewelry and department stores (Swabbing beforehand with alcohol they say is adequate for an injection a quick healing puncture but alcohol won't kill viruses such as serum hepatitis) Still that college student thought ear piercing was an innocuous enough procedure and many jewelry and department stores seem to agree But says Payne I were running a department store I'd be terrified to think my store was piercing ears because you're doing a surgical procedure and taking great risk" He stressed that to stores in Charlotte and for the past five years he says he hasn't seen a case of serious infection from ear piercing "because it's now being done here by surgeons and ear nose and throat specialists" Sterile conditions aside how often does anyone in a department or jewelry store take an adequate medical history from a customer to avoid poor risks? 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