Piercing Aftercare
The most important thing to remember is to keep your hands clean before touching your new piercing. Avoid over-the-counter products such as alcohol, peroxide, bactine or neosporin since these are a bit harsh on the delicate tissue healing around the jewelry.
The product that I recommend using to care for your new piercing is a mild soap like “Dr Bronner’s Soap” or “Cetaphil”. Use no more than two times daily. Pump a small amount of soap onto your fingertips, place the bubbles on the front and back of your piercings, leave on for a minute, rinse off with water, then gently pat dry or air dry.
You don’t need to aggressively clean your piercing. Just gently place the bubbles on there without moving your piercing around.
Remember, over-cleaning your piercing can cause more harm than good. Minimal care is best.
Treat your new piercing as you would a cut. Minimize picking, playing with, and touching your new piercing with unclean hands. Similar to a cut, your piercing will scab around the sides and accumulate some discharge (typically a yellowish/white color, which can harden into a crust). This is the sign that your piercing is healing healthily. Do not panic. Picking this away will cause irritation to your piercing, prolong healing time, and leave a more pronounced scar once healed. To safely clean discharge/crusty matter, only use aforementioned soap and warm water to gently wash it away.
While cleaning your new piercing, it is not necessary to rotate or move the jewelry back and forth. If the jewelry does move freely while cleaning, that is fine. Make sure not to force it to move.
For the first 7-10 days after receiving your piercing, avoid exposing it to shared/ public bodies of water (ie: pools, hot tub, ocean, etc...).
DO NOT SLEEP ON YOUR PIERCING UNTIL IT IS COMPLETELY HEALED.
Jewelry should be left in your piercing for approximately 2 months AND doesn’t feel tender, before changing it out for a new piece of jewelry. For any piercing done with a "stud" (ie: barbell or labret style jewelry), the ends can be changed while leaving the post in the piercing. This is safe to do within the first 2 months.
Don't risk removing a new piercing on your own, even for a few hours, as your body will start to close the piercing hole.
Reach out immediately if you have concerns of excessive swelling. I am happy to fit you with a longer post.
Reach out immediately if you have any concerns of a “piercing bump” developing. We want to treat those asap before they get out of control.
** All healing times are general time frames. Everybody heals at a different rate. Take this into consideration before switching jewelry. If the piercing itself is tender to the touch or the surrounding skin is pink or dry, give your body a bit more time to heal. I promise you the wait will be worth it. Piercings require patients and consistent care.
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