If you cant rotate your earrings are they infected?

Rotating the jewellery while flushing the piercings with warm water in the shower is just about the only way to properly clean the piercing and counteract and infection. The use of diluted liquid antibacterial soap lathered and applied to the jewellery and piercing in concert with the flushing will wash the piercings out and with this rinse any irritants out of the piercings.