Nose piercing cleaning question?

Question

How do you clean a nose piercing with sea salt? Doesn't that burn? any information would help.Thanks

Answer 1

My friend has sprayable H2Ocean, all she does is spray inside and outside of her nose and her piercing is healing nicely. I have had several piercings on my face and the piercer has always recommended H2Ocean because then you don't have to measure out water and sea salt, risking an error in measurement and complications from that.  Check out: http://www.h2ocean.com/... Didn't your piercer tell you how to take care of your piercing?

Answer 2

You can do this 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 piercing. 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 nose in for 5-10 minutes. Repeat with the other ear.

Both of these methods, do it 3 times a day for 6 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 . 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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