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Category: Piercing After-care
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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.
- Cleaning the piercing with alcohol or ointments
- Over-cleaning the piercing, leading to irritation and tears
- Friction against the piercing from clothing
- All physical contact in the form of others touching the pierced region
- Submerging in common water bodies like pools, oceans, hot tubs, communal showers etc.
- Hanging extensions to the existing piercing, adding weights to it
- Twisting, spinning or rotating the piercing unnecessarily
- Frequently meddling with the piercing without proper hand hygiene
- Apply beauty products like creams and lotions on the piercing
- Activities which will aggravate the piercing such as brawls, herein the pierced area will come into contact
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How to Care for Your Piercings?
So you went and got your piercing. Well, you must be wondering what’s next? Caring for your piercing is obviously a process, but with the right guidance it’s super simple and easy to manage on your own.
Normal
Initial bleeding, bruising, tenderness and swelling in the pierced region, itching during the healing process, slight discoloration at the inception.Not Normal
Swollen, painful, a reddish tinge and hot to touch, secretion of blood or pus, accompanied by feverishness, shivering or a heated sensation all over.
Perform proper after-care for your piercing always.