How to take care of piercing

You made long-awaited piercing and now there is a question how to take care of piercing not to do much harm to yourself and not to bring an infection?

For all types of piercing the following recommendations about leaving (to how to take care of of all types of piercing - the general).

Before carrying out any manipulations with a piercing place, it is necessary to disinfect hands.  And if you insert new ornament, it needs to be sterilized.  The most popular means for wound processing - chlorhexidine.  It has not a spirit basis, it won't burn a wound.  When processing wound by peroxide of hydrogen or the means containing alcohol, round a wound there is a darkening as there is an epidermis burning.  The healed puncture needs to be washed each time when you take a shower or a bathtub, turning or advancing a product to clean off from it sweat, dirt, skin fat, using thus cosmetic detergents.

Remember that the basic in how to take care of piercing is sterility. Further we will consider how to take care of piercing, depending on its location.

 

How to take care of piercing on a navel?

 

After you will make navel piercing, on you will apply a bandage to the place of a puncture. This bandage needs to be removed in 4 hours. Having removed a bandage from piercing, wash this place in a shower within 2-3 minutes. In the first day after a puncture of a navel don't use any additional disinfection means for a wound.

For care of piercing in a zone of a navel use once a day soft antibacterial soap. Move ornament during washing to wash away an outgrowth and dirt from it. Wash accurately not to irritate a wound. After you washed a piercing place, process it clearing solution.

To accelerate piercing healing, do trays of salt solution. Part in a water glass a salt spoon, moisten pure fabric in this solution and put for 10 minutes on piercing. Remember that care of piercing has to be multilateral, so you will avoid infections and problems with a wound.

After each cleaning dry up a navel properly. If you have a very deep navel, you have to clean it every day with a  pure wadded tampon moistened in warm water. Very carefully remove dirt and then carefully dry.

One more secret in care of piercing – is lavender oil.  Lavender oil promotes healing and greases a wound, reducing sensitivity.  After cleared a wound, put a small amount of oil on a wadded stick and grease a wound.  Carefully move ornament in a wound so that oil got inside if you have a ring – you twist it carefully.  Remove all allocations by a napkin.

After piercing will begin to live, put on a place of a puncture of piercing  1-2 drops of lavender oil weekly to prevent tightening and dry wounds.

 

How to take care of piercing on tongue?

 

After tongue was punctured and the dumbbell was established, tongue passes through a puffiness stage. To reduce puffiness, it is recommended to put small slices of ice on tongue and to allow them to thaw. Ice will stop not only hypostasis growth, but also will weaken pain.

Don't touch piercing by fingers, previously without having washed them, and regularly  clean tongue. Use antibacterial liquid solution for mouth rinsing.

During the rehabilitation period at all don't use salt, hydrogen peroxide, iodine, oil of a tea tree, bactericidal ointments.

Regularly tighten the dumbbell. Especially before you go to bed and after tooth brushing after a dream.

In fifteen days after piercing it is recommended to truncate a dumbbell. It becomes to prevent damages which it can put to your teeth.

During the rehabilitation period don't use hot food and sharp products. Dumbbell, being a metal detail, from hot food can heat up and cause an inflammation, and the spicy food can cause feeling of burning in a puncture place.

 

How to take care of piercing on a nose and in ears?

Care of piercing on a nose and in ears doesn't assume any special procedures. Washing procedure is standard, chlorhexidine's solution or myramistinum 2 times a day. Other recommendations look in the beginning of article.

 

How to take care of piercing on a nipple?

Besides standard care of piercing,  first 2 weeks  strictly recommended to carry a constant antiseptic compress to avoid traumatizing and infection hit.

Don't wear fitting tightly linen which badly passes air. During healing of a wound wear only cotton linen or the flax, no any synthetics.

Washing procedure is standard 2 times once a day and in addition if there is a probability of hit of an infection (for example, after the street).