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bubble on my belly button peircing
ok so it's only been like 3 months scince i got my bellow button peirced. There is a strange bubble around the top half of the peircing. The skin around it is not red and the bottom half is fine. And it dosn't hurt really. My mom is a microbiologist and she used a sterolized needle to poke a hole in it. Only some blood came out no puss. Si i was wondering. Is it infected? or is it just healing or what?
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You did not get any soap? Use an antibacterial liquid soap and wash the area last in the shower. Soap up both hands well and squirt some soap on the navel ring moving it around gently to get the soap in the piercing. Rinse completely, and several times. Don't touch the area outside the shower. Don't put anything on it and keep it clean. It is suseptable to infection for about a year, so take cleaning seriously. Good luck.
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Did you follow the instructions and clean with the specific soap given by the piercer? It takes a whole year for the navel piercing to heal. You are still growing and very young to have such a procedure. I find it hard to believe your mom allowed it. Anyway, don't put anything on it like ointments, alcohol or hydrogen peroxide, because it will prevent natural healing. There are sites that recommend soaking the area with an upside down cup of sea-salt water. Although not recommended, Bactine used to be what piercers advised for healing and preventing infection. I have known one person who used it and it worked. Also, don't touch it, except when washing as directed with the liquid soap provided at the piercers. Hands are very dirty.
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If it was infected it would generally be filled with pus (a byproduct of your body fighting off the infection) but if all that came out was blood it may just be nothing but since it did appear after having the piercing it would be safer to have it checked out by your family doctor just to be on the safe side and to make sure it's notan infection since I am no doctor, and last thing I want to do is say it's not an infection when it might actually be just that.
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