Belly peircing help?

Question

i just need instructions on how to clean it..

i just got mine

so cud u go step by step?

cus i kno how to clean it but i just wanna make sure im doin it

the right way!

thank you..

Answer 1

well i had mine for three months and it is healing good. The first thing i do is wash my hands than spary bactine on it and push the ring up and down once. when taking a shower you use a mild or dail antibacterial soap and rinse.

Answer 2

1/4 tea spoon sea salt per 8 oz warm water... dissolve the salt in it.

Soak it in that for 5 - 10 minutes... that's the best way to clean it.

you could use a shot glass or something and hold it on the piercing.

After that use a q tip to wipe around it.

Answer 3

You can clean your navel two ways...

A) (The lazy way; i normally use this way when i got to the gym and can't do proper hot sea salt soaks....) But 0.9% saline solution at the pharmacist (buy in small packets, as they become contaminated after opening and you don't want to be using a single contaminated packet for 6 months!) Take one end of a q-tip and saturate it with the saline solution. clean the front of the earring. take the other end of the q-tip, saturate it with saline, and clean the back.

B) (The proper way; this is much better, as the heat encourages the dead cells and lymph to escape.) Mix 1/4 teaspoon of non-iodised sea salt into 1 cup of HOT WATER. Wait for it to cool a bit, and when it's as hot as you can bear, dip your navel in for 5-10 minutes. or invert a glass over it. Repeat with the other ear.

Both of these methods, do it 3 times a day for 4 months. Don't spin the jewelry or even touch the jewelry; all you'll be doing is spinning all the germs and gunk back into the piercing and disturbing the healing cells. Your jewelry will not stick to your skin if it's made of good materials!

Don't use alcohol or the ear care solution given to you by your piercer. Alcohol is WAY too harsh, and will kill your skin cells instead of encouraging it to heal (that's why it stings). In addition to that, Alcohol kills the transient (good) bacteria in your skin, letting the invasive (bad) bacteria in. Any polysporin or antiseptic is also bad, as they block air flow to the piercing, and lets the bacteria breed. In fact, don't ANYTHING ELSE other than sea-salt or saline solution. You will irritate it and make it harder to heal.

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