RIGHT AFTER YOU GET PIERCED
Getting your piercing done professionally is great But, especially the cartilage piercing requires extra care after getting it done for at least 6 months.
WASH YOUR HANDS FIRST
ALWAYS, CLEAN HANDS BEFORE TOUCHING YOUR PIERCING
Washing thoroughly with antibacterial soap ensures the protection of dirt and oils from your fingers transferred to your piercing (which is an open wound), and potentially cause an infection.
CLEAN AT LEAST ONCE A DAY
IT IS A MUST
Dip a Q-Tip in an antibacterial foam from your antibacterial solution. Make sure that it has enough amount to be used on the area.
CLEAN AROUND THOROUGHLY
TRY MOVING THE PIERCING IN AND OUT
Doing this and very carefully on the mirror every day at least once assures that your piercing is germs free. Hair touching it and the biggest enemy is your phone.
SOAK WITH SEA SALT AND WATER
YOU MUST DO THIS STEP TO AVOID ALL COMPLICATIONS
Mix ¼ teaspoon of sea salt into 8 oz of mineral water. Take a piece of a cotton bud that would be appropriate to place on the piercing directly to cover the back and front of all sides. Hold it for 10-15 minutes at least:
- every day for the first week
- 3 days a week the second week
- once a week for the third and fourth week
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Or buy a readymade sea-salt solution from the pharmacy.
BUY A READY MADE SEA SALT SOLUTION
NORMAL SALINE AT ANY PHARMACY
Using this solution as a substitute the same way.
Take a piece of a cotton bud that would be appropriate to place on the piercing directly to cover the back and front of all sides. Hold it for 10-15 minutes at least:
- every day for the first week
- 3 days a week the second week
- once a week for the third and fourth week
DON'T CHANGE
AT LEAST 6 MONTHS
Keep the initial medical piercing because you wouldn't want the healing process to be interrupted during the first six months. We only use the best biocompatible material and it is not cheap to assure a safe complication free piercing.
DON'T TOUCH IT
OUR HANDS ARE NEVER BACTERIA FREE
The worst habit is touching your piercing, it is there and not going anywhere. The bacteria will be trapped inside the piercing and that will be a huge problem because the symptoms will not show till it is too late to discover. If you want to touch it just wash your hands thoroughly before.
DON'T APPLY OINTMENT
DON'T IMPROVISE ONLY DO THE RIGHT THING
Many people logically think that they will prevent the bacteria from forming or speed up the healing of piercing by applying ointment. This thought is absolutely false and will cause infection because first, it will speed up the healing which might grow excess skin around the piercing, secondly, the ointment is oil based so after the effect is gone they will act like a petroleum gel trapping the bacteria and causing infection.
BEWARE OF CLOTHES
MIGHT GET STUCK WITH FABRIC
Be very careful while you wear your clothes, and make sure that if you wear anything near the piercing it must clean on a daily basis. Hair is a very tricky reason as the hair has dust and airborne bacteria that will transmit to the fresh piercing and cause infection.
AVOID SHAMPOOING
SOME HAS HARMFUL CHEMICALS
Any alien chemicals touching the piercing will affect the healing process, try using on antibacterial mild soaps that will be gentle to the skin.
DONT SLEEP ON IT
WILL CAUSE IRRITATION
You can accidentally bump touch the piercing while you are sleeping which is very normal, it's a must to watch out for your new piercing at the beginning of the healing phase, any deep movement may scratch the inside off your piercing hole which would cause irritation.
HOW TO KNOW??
REDNESS SWELLING PUSS OR KELOID BUMP
All the things above are signs of infection during healing, little pain, irritation or swelling, in the beginning, is fine and normal, little crust formation or simple discharge is also normal. If you:
- feel a great deal of pain
- see redness around it
- the piercing has shifted from its place
- there is some yellowish fluid discharge
directly contact us for a check-up.
ACCIDENTS HAPPEN
BE CAREFUL NOT HIT IT OR GET IT CAUGHT WITH CLOTHES
Accidents are meant to happen anytime anywhere that is normal, in case it happens and you felt discomfort or pain apply a cold towel compress to ease the pain and use sea salt soaks:
- every day for the first week
- 3 days a week the second week
- once a week for the third and fourth week
HEALING THE INFECTION
ONLY AFTER YOU MAKE SURE IT IS INFECTED
After visiting us for a check-up, you must maintain the hygienic protocol of cleaning it with antibacterial soap doing the sea salt soaks as if it is a new piercing, in some rare cases of infection we use anti bacterial cream, not ointment BUT you should never use without our consultation first.
WEAR ONLY BIOCOMPATIBLE MEDICAL
YOU MIGHT HAVE ALLERGY TO ACCESSORIES
Only use a medical grade piercing, we only sell the best material to be used for belly piercing, in order to guarantee the consistency of the products we ship now worldwide
NOT ALL DOCTORS ARE RIGHT
CERTIFIED PIERCERS KNOW MORE
We have made sure that we cover everything regarding the belly topic as some doctors improvise and try to do things which might be very harmful to the piercing causing more complication. we keep it as simple as possible just maintain hygienic protocol and if you feel any discomfort the sea salt soaks will do fix the issue.
As for keloid formers, it is risky to do a piercing and if this happened to remove the jewelry immediately.