Top 10 Behaviors to Avoid After Getting a Piercing

Even as you look and feel great in your new piercing, any complications from an infection to your piercing closing is exactly what you would want to avoid. 

1. Cleaning the piercing with alcohol or ointments
2. Over-cleaning the piercing, leading to irritation and tears
3. Friction against the piercing from clothing 
4. All physical contact in the form of others touching the pierced region
5. Submerging in common water bodies like pools, oceans, hot tubs, communal showers etc. 
6. Hanging extensions to the existing piercing, adding weights to it
7. Twisting, spinning or rotating the piercing unnecessarily
8. Frequently meddling with the piercing without proper hand hygiene 
9. Apply beauty products like creams and lotions on the piercing 
10. Activities which will aggravate the piercing such as brawls, herein the pierced area will come into contact