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By eHow Fashion, Style & Personal Care Editor
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Post-piercing care is a must to ensure proper healing. In addition to the aftercare list provided by your piercer, consider the following useful alternatives.
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Comments
Anonymous said
on 6/30/2006 To clean my navel piercing, I never used any special piercing serum or ointment. Simply wash your navel piercing with shower gel, making sure you lather it up well and wash it thoroughly. The shower gel is gentle on the piercing and keeps it clean, while not being irritating. I found serums recommended to me by my piercer and websites irritated my piercing and caused more harm than good!
Anonymous said
on 1/25/2006 Use clear, unscented, liquid hand soap. A scented soap will burn. Never apply antibiotic ointment, this could cause the hole to grow over (the directions also say never apply to a puncture wound). Don't use hydrogen peroxide on a piercing if you have an infection (most people do have some small infection at first, but it quickly goes away). Peroxide traps it and causes the infection to spread or grow.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 I drank huge Slushies. All of the ice in your mouth makes it feel a whole lot better. I also agree with the alcohol warning, alcohol will prolong the healing time.
Anonymous said
on 8/8/2006 Ice cream is not one of the foods you can eat after getting an oral piercing! Dairy products are to be avoided for at least the first two weeks.
Anonymous said
on 8/8/2006 Talk to your piercer or look on the Professional Piercing Association Website. Use a Solution that is specifically made to clean a piercing. A solution that was sold by my piercer is Provone. It works very well and before you clean your piercing make sure you wash your hands so none of the bacteria on your hands makes it to your ears.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 As a professional piercer, I recommend that you never use "Neosporin" or the like. If you read the container, it says "do not use on puncture wounds." A piercing is a puncture wound. See www.safepiercing.org for the Association of Professional Piercers aftercare instructions.
Anonymous said
on 8/8/2006 Smoking delays the body's ability to heal, so try to refrain from any forms of smoke while nursing a fresh piercing or tattoo.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 Though I havent heard anyone have solid scientific proof why this is wrong, I have seen in my experience that peroxide, soaps, and other things made for cleaning piercings do more harm then help. My best advise? Stick with sea salt soaks, as salt is regularily in your body anyways. Adding any other chemicals foreign to your body will only make the piercing more upset. And for rotating your jewelery? Unless you got pierced at Claires with the cheapest available jewelry, there really should be no need to rotate. If you have quality jewelry, your skin will not heal to the metal, and all that rotating does is breaks the forming scab, therefore letting (more) bacteria into the hole. Thats mostly it, and if your piercer told you to do otherwise than what I have said, go ahead and do it. Piercer knows best, I suppose.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 On the lower inside corner of the headlight housing is a 5/16 hex head holding a washer (about 1 inch) that has teeth facing away from the hex head. To raise the beam (standing in front of the car, facing the rear), use a long screw to move the washer teeth down. Pushing the teeth on your left down lowers the beam. Pushing the right side down raises the beam. Follow all the other hints by parking on flat surface facing garage door so you can line up the beams.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 Metal is porous even if it doesn't appear so! To avoid rotating nasties into your piercing, try cleaning the piercing with alcohol. Be careful not to get alcohol in the wound, and wash again with water to get any excess off the jewelry before rotating.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 All anti-bacterial washes/creams will kill off germs, however, they will also kill of your new cells that are healing your piercing wound. Using a salt wash (Iodine Salt is probably best, not cooking salt-e.g. garlic or chicken salt) that is as salty as the sea (or doesn't overly sting) is a better alternative as it won't kill off the good healing skin cells. I found spraying the piercing and then rotating to get the salt water in the piercing to be best.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 While you are in the shower, apply antibacterial soap around your belly piercing and work the soap into a lather. Move your piercing up and down, to let the soap get into the piercing (trust me, this helps). After that, let it sit for a while, and then rinse throughly with water. After you have finished showering, don't touch the piercing. For antibacterial soap care when out of the shower, take a cotton swab and wet it. Put antibacterial soap on the swab and work it around your belly button piercing. Then rinse the area and let it air dry.
I've been doing this 2 times a day, and I haven't had any problems. I've also tried dissolving sea salt in water and letting my belly button piercing soak in it.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 Make sure you get your nose pierced with a metal stud, not one made of plastic. Plastic studs can fall out easier, and they aren't bent to the correct shape. Don't use rubbing alcohol or Dettol. I know from experience that this slows down the healing time and is too harsh for open wounds. Rubbing alcohol may be used about a month or so after the piercing, when the area has started to heal. The best solution is often the simplest. I have always found a warm sea salt solution to work best. Don't wear foundation around your nose piercings, this often can slow healing time and cause infections. This is especially true when make-up is applied with unclean hands or used sponges.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 After getting your tongue pierced, immediately rinse with Listerine to disinfect and avoid inflammation. Eat easy-to-chew foods like soup, mashed potatoes, etc., and rinse after with Listerine after eating.
Anonymous said
on 6/30/2006 When using the sea salt water method, you should use no more than a 1/4 teaspoon of non-iodized sea salt to one 8 ounce container of water. Distilled water is best. If it is mixed too strong, it can burn the piercing. Also, make sure to use fresh water every day.