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belly button infected
This is how mybelly button piercings been doing:
Day 1-2: Red, tender, top is crusted
Day 3-5: Top still crusted, no longer tender, pus comes out
Day 6: Top crust comes off so it looks kinda healed becuase its smooth
Day 7-8: Still puses and occasionally crusts, but crust falls off real easily
Day 9-10: REDDER. I though that it had been getting much better, but turns out, it got worse? I think... Im worried
I also think it'll be rejected because it looks like its migrating.
I dont know what to do! I dont want it to migrate out. Also, what can I do to make it NOT red?
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You haven't even had your piercing for 2 weeks - of course the healing process might not run smoothly for now, especially since it's very easy for that area of your body to become irritated, from moving, clothing, etc.
Redness isn't really a bad sign. If pain and discomfort comes along and a coloured pus (not clear), then it's time to take a trip to your piercer and ask them to look at it.
For now, all you need to do is sea salt soaks with warm water. Just hold the compress over your belly button for about 15 minutes, 3 times a day.
Give your piercing a further 3 days, without forgetting the soaks and whatever you do, don't touch it (unless you're cleaning it), stay the hell away from antibacterial washes. try not to let your clothes rub on it and try not to move that area too much.
Now, migration is a different story - alot of piercings migrate depending on the area. Piercings like yours are more susceptible to migration and rejection since your body doesn't want a foreign object in such a place.
My advice is to go to a professional so they can see it in real life. They will know if it's migrating or showing signs of infection and they'll help you take the necessary steps from there.
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This is called rejection. Rejection is the body's natural defensive maneuver to prevent infections and such. Migrating IS rejecting.
Your body has no idea that you WANTED to put a piece of metal in your skin. It thinks you've been wounded and it knows that infection may set in if the object stays in (because foreign objects have dirt/bacteria on them). The body knows it needs to get the object out as soon as possible so it does everything it can.
This means the flesh surrounding the piercing will actually sacrifice itself for your life. It will actually die off and the cells will fall off of you little by little. This causes deep scars usually. You can actually visually see the skin thinning when you look at the piercing.
Rejection usually only happens to surface piercings--eyebrows, bellyrings, hips, corset piercing, cleavage, nape, etc.
Rejection will ALWAYS happen with these piercings no matter what. The only way to reduce the scarring from rejection is to take the piercing out early. Some bodies reject quicker than others--some people can go weeks with an eyebrow piercing before it starts to reject and some people can go months before it begins rejecting. It will always happen though.
The only thing you can do is try to slow down the rejection process. This means rinsing the jewelry off with saline solution twice a day and doing everything you can not to put pressure on the bar. With surface piercings, the more you mess with them, the quicker they will come out.
The skin usually begins to be itchy because the cells are dying off so you can live and won't get a major infection. Again, the body doesn't know that the object has been sterilized and was wanted so there honestly is no way to stop rejection.
I also want to note that if your piercing begins to reject and you do not remove the jewelery, it WILL still come out. Your skin seriously just falls off of you little by little until the piercing comes out as well.
Here is an excellent photo sequence in which someone shows how their nape piercing rejected after a few months:
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In short, your skin will not magically get any thicker in that area now. Your body is actually just healing itself by killing off those skin cells. Your body will always do this until the bar completely falls out. You cannot reverse this and, usually, cannot really slow the process down.
All you can do now is wash it off with saline solution or remove it before it removes itself. It's not going to get any better if it's migrating.
See a piercer about it being infected. Infection can be really bad, but I would place my best it not being infected but just migrating. If you remove it and it IS infected, it will seal in the infection in and you'll need to have it lanced or cut out by a doctor.
So:
Rinse off twice daily with saline solution.
See a professional piercer.
Determine if it's infected.
If infected: ask for advice. (the advice SHOULD be to keep washing it off with saline solution. NO SOAP. NO ALCOHOL. NO PEROXIDE.)
If not infected: remove.
I hope I've answered you pretty clearly. If you have any more questions PLEASE feel free to ask me! :)
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when my mom's belly button got infected,
she got a little paper cup
and did a salt water wash
after a couple days it healed
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What have you been cleaning it with? You should clean it with antibacterial soap in the shower. You should NEVER touch it, unless you are in the shower cleaning it. Be sure to clean it thoroughly too.
The first two days sound pretty normal. Redness and tenderness is to be expected. However it shouldn't be pussing. That's a big sign of an infection. You should call whoever pierced you, and tell them what you are experiencing. Don't take the piercing out regardless of whether it gets worse or not. If puss gets blocked inside a closed piercing, it can become an abscess which can be very painful and may require surgical removal.
<3 Keep cleaning it & get it checked out if it doesn't get better.
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I would just like to add, that many have answered your question saying, "No soap!" I said use soap [Dial], because that's what my piercer told me to use. He was a professional, I did trust him, and my piercing turned out just fine. Perfect, actually. The best advice I can give you is to go to the person that pierced YOU and see what they say. Because no one will know what's best for your body but your piercer..
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You need to go to the professional who did the piercing for the best advice.
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Then why would I answer, you ask?
Having had MULTIPLE body piercings, I know for FACT that talking to the professional is the intelligent thing to do.
Having an infected piercing is something that needs to be looked at with knowledgeable eyes, not diagnosed by faceless internet strangers who may think they know the answer.
Infection can be DANGEROUS.
THAT is exactly why I would answer.
So GO TO THE PROFESSIONAL.
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