Adorning your body with piercings still remains cooler and more on trend than ever. While piercings – both facial and body piercings – look great, it’s important to remember that if they’re not properly taken care of, your piercings can cause you great discomfort.
The issue is that while you may have already had piercings done in your younger years, the instructions that you received at your local mall aged 13 most probably don’t offer the best tips for taking care of your piercings and preventing infections.
So if you’ve decided that the time has come to get a new piercing, whether it’s an ear piercing or something a little more adventurous, then it is vital that you are aware of the best ways to take care of your piercings to ensure that you don’t end up with a piercing that becomes infected or uncomfortable to wear.
Wondering what it takes to properly take care of your piercings and ensure that any piercings you opt for keep you on trend and don’t land you in the hospital with an infection? Below are some tips and pieces of advice to have a read, take note of, and incorporate into how you take care of your piercings.
Get all piercings done with a needle
When getting a piercing, it’s essential that you start off on the right foot, and the way to do that is to get your piercing done with a needle, rather than with a piercing gun. Whether it’s a simple lobe piercing, a belly button piercing or a daith piercing, the use of a needle is important, as needles are far more hygienic than piercing guns. Not only are needles more hygienic, but they are also more accurate, and allow for safer piercing.
Get cleaning care right
There’s a common misconception that when it comes to new piercings you should cleanse the piercing with rubbing alcohol. However, this is not recommended, what you should actually use is saline solution or soap and water, to clean the piercing and prevent infections.
It’s also important that you don’t turn the piercing constantly. It’s vital that piercings are turned, but only when they are wet and are being cleaned, not when they are dry, as otherwise, this can cause dryness and soreness.
Know the signs of healing
When it comes to the healing process, it’s actually far longer than you would think. Earlobe piercings take between two and three months to heal. While piercings in areas of cartilage tend to take between three and ten months.
How can you tell when it’s healed? Once a piercing has stopped hurting, is no longer red or swollen, and is no longer leaking fluid, this is a sign that it has properly healed.
Know what to do if your piercing becomes sore
Should your piercing become sore, swollen, or red, it’s important that you know what to do. It’s easy to panic when this kind of issue occurs, but it’s important not to worry. Perhaps bathe your piercing more frequently for a couple of days and watch it closely. If the pain and redness go away, there’s nothing to panic about. If it remains sore or gets worse, it’s a good idea to seek medical advice.
There you have it, everything that you need to know about caring for new piercings.
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