Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Body piercing: aftercare


Your piercing early handling is the same as taking care of a small wound. It is important to take good care of you piercing, especially when the Fistula has not yet formed. Don't wear tight clothing or sales on your new piercing.
Your hands must be disinfected before touching the piercing, after all, hands carry many bacteria.

Rules

* Do not take the jewellery of the healing period. The injury will heal better and do close fast when you remove the jewelry for a short period.

* Do not apply any ointments on the piercing. It is best to keep the piercing as dry as possible. Ointments protect oxygen and slow down the healing.

* Avoid makeup, shaving, cream strong SOAP or scented tips around your piercing.

* Don't hang your jewelry charms until the wound is completely healed.

* Avoid sleep on while the healing piercing.

* Not clean more. The injury of piercing cleaning more than two times a day is not desirable, it will slow down the healing.

* Do not use adhesive plasters on your piercing. There will be not enough air circulation and adhesive can cause irritation.

* Avoid swimming pools, jacuzzis (hot air above the surface of the water feed many bacteria), lakes... If there is marine life, motor oil or children in the water, then it is not enough clean! If you go in the water and you doubt that if the water is clean enough, you can put a sealant non-permeable water injury on the piercing going. It will prevent the dirty water to enter the wound. After the injury of cleaning will not effective to prevent any infection!

* Avoid oral contact or organic liquids that are not your own! Your own body fluids like sweat are not harmful to your piercing, but you have to clean.

Enemies

* Wash hands before of any contact near the healing piercing!

* Porter of the own and permeable fabrics to air around the area of your new piercing. Wear clothing tight around the piercing.

* Your bedding must be clean at all time.

* Leave the jewellery of starter in at least the minimum recovery time.

* A healthy lifestyle will help your piercing heal faster. Stay away from drugs and alcohol, eat nutritious foods and avoid the constraints will show their benefits.

* A shower instead of a bath. A bathtub tends to contain many bacteria. If you insist on swimming, clean the bath with a bleaching product each time before bathing and rinse with water. When leave you the room of bath, rinse your drilling with water.

Cleaning solution.

Fresh sea water permeates is recommended (daily), they give the best results to speed up your healing and increasing your comfort.
dissolve 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt in a cup (8 oz.) of hot water. Make sure that the Cup is clean. Do not make the solution is higher because too much salt can obtain the piercing to burn. Reverse the Cup over the area and directly soak a few minutes. You can also use a cotton ball soaked in salted water instead of direct soaking when the piercing is a difficult place.

Cleaning instructions.

Clean your piercing twice a day during the initial period of healing. Do not clean it too, it will cause irritation. Stay away from your piercing from the rest of the day.
Before cleaning, wash your hands with hot water and anti-bacterial SOAP.
You must rinse the area of piercing with warm water to ensure that the crusts are formed are deleted. Otherwise, they can enter the piercing and the piercing may contract.
Clean the area and the jewelry with the cleaning solution. Carefully move the piercing jewelry top and bottom for cleaning solution in the piercing. Allow the solution to do his job for a minute.
Normally, you can swim, just don't get any other product then the cleaning solution in your piercing on purpose.
Flush the piercing with running water. All cleaning solutions should be deleted. Pull the jewelry piercing real back and forth gently rinsing so that the solution of the Interior the piercing is also removed.
Pat the area dry with tissue or gauze. Avoid fabric napkins, they may harbour bacteria.

What is normal

Bleeding, bruising and swelling are normal, that they point to an infection.
Tenderness, discomfort are not abnormal in the first several weeks. You can feel burning, tingling, or muscle aches on the first days and outside. It is also very common of itching.

The secretion of a whitish yellow liquid enough liquid form crusts to the openings of the piercing. Is not pus. It contains the blood plasma, the lymph and dead cells. It is normal and indicates the healing process.

Keep cleaning.

If you notice nothing abnormal or piercing gets seriously infected, contact piercer or a doctor.
If your piercing secreted pus, you should go see a doctor for antibiotic treatment. The piercing should be left at any time for the drainage of pus. If the jewelry is removed, the piercing can close, and you can get an abscess... Let your jewellery in!

Time of healing.

Ear lobe: 6-8 weeks

Cartilage of the ears: 4 months - 1 year

Eyebrow: 6-8 weeks

Nostril: 2-4 months

Nasal septum: 6 to 8 months

Lip: 2-3 months

Language: 4 weeks.

Nipple: 3-6 months

Belly button: 4 months - 1 year

Male genitalia: weeks 4-6 months

Genital: 4-10 weeks




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