What should I expect for healing when I get my belly button repierced?

Question

I previously had my navel pierced for around 4 days then had to take it out. Since the barbel was to short,and I was unsure of how clean it was. Since I had it in for such a short period of time will there be a lot or a little bit of scar tissue? I know it's probably different for everybody, but I'd like to have a better idea of what I'm getting into.

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Answer 1

what size did they pierce it with cause if your saying it was to short it might have been the wrong size they pierced it with. they pierce it with an 14g they normally don't pierce it with a smaller gauge like 18 or 16 cause its way to small and they are short cause it will end up getting infected cause its the wrong size.

my body piercer told me when i get a shower to soap up a rag and only use dove soap and squeeze the rag out on your stomach and push the bar bell up and down and then let clean water hit it and push up and down and it  and it should keep it clean and it won't get infected but you have to do that every time you get a shower even when it

once its healed you still have to do it. its really easy to keep it clean and its easier when you get a shower its not hard at all honestly.

i had mine done 2 yr next month and i never had any trouble with mine at all i used dove soap to keep it clean and no infections or anything no soreness, no redness no nothing it healed up nicely and thats what my body piercer told me as well.

once you have it pierced it after a week it will be really itchy and if it is thats a good sign cause that means its healing and if you have yellow puss thats not a good sign and that means its infected or it might be rejecting the piercing....

Answer 2

When you get re-pierced and if you're unsure if the jewelry is too short again you can go back to the piercer and have him/her change it for ya. If you're unsure of the cleanliness of the shop you can have another piercer do it for you, I'm sure they'd be more than happy to help.

I don't believe there'd be tons of scar tissue because you only had it for 4 days, but it would still probably hurt a bit more because there is some scar tissue there.

Healing would be like any piercing.. lymph, crusties, soreness, redness and that sort of stuff throughout the healing period. Navel piercings take 6-12 months to heal, and that long before you can change the jewelry (unless it's giving you problems like the old one did - then a piercer can do that for ya).

To clean it you do two sea salt soaks a day (1 teaspoon non iodized sea salt mixed in 1 liter warm water) and leave it alone apart from that. Don't touch the jewelry, if you HAVE to be sure your hands are clean. Don't rotate/move the jewelry - that causes unnecessary pain and does your piercing no good. It actually drags the crusties back into the hole which can tear it and cause an infection.