Healing an infected belly piercing
Avoid swimming soon after getting a piercing
Getting your belly pierced is a sure shot way of upping your hotness quotient. Belly piercings look especially hot when your sporting a bikini or navel revealing tops. Belly button piercings are becoming very popular with the young, especially those in the age bracket of 14-18.
Amongst all piercings, the belly takes the longest to heal. It is not advisable to bend or squat when your piercing is brand new. And here's a piece of good news you lazy bones- you can give your ab workout a miss for a few weeks! Your piercing should heal fairly quickly if you treat with tender loving care. However, the chances of developing an infection are particularly high if you fail to clean your piercing properly.
Do not ignore an infection as nothing could get nastier than an infected piercing. You might notice that your navel feels warm to the touch, may look inflamed and might be sore. This is okay on the first two days of getting your piercing. However, if the redness persists causing your piercing to swell and you see smelly, greenish-yellow pus oozing out of it, it is time for prompt action.
- Rinse your navel with salt water after you have finished bathing. Use a teaspoon of sea salt and mix it with some warm water. Soak a cotton ball in the salty concoction and place it on your piercing. This will sting a little because of the presence of the sea salt. Hold it on the piercing for a few minutes and repeat a few times with new cotton balls. The heat from the warm water will help in increasing the blood flow to the infected piercing thus allowing the pus to drain out. The sea salt will help the wound to dry out without destroying the good cells that are trying to heal the wound.
- Avoid using a cloth instead of cotton balls as cloth can spread the infection.
- Although they help in disinfecting a wound, do not use hydrogen peroxide or alcohol to clean your infected piercing as they do not aid healing.
- Dilute a few drops of mother tincture in water and dab your piercing with this solution. This is going to sting a lot more than the sea salts but clears off the infection faster.
- Do not ever remove the belly ring. Infected piercings close up pretty fast and once you remove the ring you may not be able to re-insert it. If your piercing closes while it is infected, an under-skin infection known as abscess could develop. There are high chances of a keloid forming at the piercing after it has healed.
- While bathing with warm water, gently move your ring up and down to loosen up any bacterial build-up. The build-up can also dry up and become crusty. Clean the crust while you are soaking the piercing with the salt water solution.
- Do not clean the piercing with a towel. Your ring could get stuck in the towel's fibres and besides, the infection could spread.
- If you are a swimming enthusiast, do not swim for a few weeks as the chlorine in the pool will dry up your piercing, making it itchy.
Amongst all piercings, the belly takes the longest to heal. It is not advisable to bend or squat when your piercing is brand new. And here's a piece of good news you lazy bones- you can give your ab workout a miss for a few weeks! Your piercing should heal fairly quickly if you treat with tender loving care. However, the chances of developing an infection are particularly high if you fail to clean your piercing properly.
Do not ignore an infection as nothing could get nastier than an infected piercing. You might notice that your navel feels warm to the touch, may look inflamed and might be sore. This is okay on the first two days of getting your piercing. However, if the redness persists causing your piercing to swell and you see smelly, greenish-yellow pus oozing out of it, it is time for prompt action.
- Rinse your navel with salt water after you have finished bathing. Use a teaspoon of sea salt and mix it with some warm water. Soak a cotton ball in the salty concoction and place it on your piercing. This will sting a little because of the presence of the sea salt. Hold it on the piercing for a few minutes and repeat a few times with new cotton balls. The heat from the warm water will help in increasing the blood flow to the infected piercing thus allowing the pus to drain out. The sea salt will help the wound to dry out without destroying the good cells that are trying to heal the wound.
- Avoid using a cloth instead of cotton balls as cloth can spread the infection.
- Although they help in disinfecting a wound, do not use hydrogen peroxide or alcohol to clean your infected piercing as they do not aid healing.
- Dilute a few drops of mother tincture in water and dab your piercing with this solution. This is going to sting a lot more than the sea salts but clears off the infection faster.
- Do not ever remove the belly ring. Infected piercings close up pretty fast and once you remove the ring you may not be able to re-insert it. If your piercing closes while it is infected, an under-skin infection known as abscess could develop. There are high chances of a keloid forming at the piercing after it has healed.
- While bathing with warm water, gently move your ring up and down to loosen up any bacterial build-up. The build-up can also dry up and become crusty. Clean the crust while you are soaking the piercing with the salt water solution.
- Do not clean the piercing with a towel. Your ring could get stuck in the towel's fibres and besides, the infection could spread.
- If you are a swimming enthusiast, do not swim for a few weeks as the chlorine in the pool will dry up your piercing, making it itchy.
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